Evening Times · 15 April 1967 · front
“GREAT SCOTS!”
England 2–3 Scotland. Home International, Wembley.
Herald reprintPapers
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1967 · Wembley
GREAT SCOTS!
World champions beaten at Wembley, nine months after 1966. Afternoon sports splash, then the Sunday line.
Sunday Post · 16 April 1967 · back
“Make chumps out of the World Cup chomps”
The paper’s own contemporary lead, later republished.
Sunday Post reprint1950 · Belo Horizonte
The morning they wrote.
Certainty page. No proper film. No 1950 defeat splash is invented here.
Derby Daily Telegraph · 29 June 1950 · morning
“ENGLAND EXPECT A COMFORTABLE WIN”
Printed the morning of USA 1–0. The walkover, typed in advance.
British Newspaper Archive1986 · Mexico City
Hand it to Diego
The morning after Azteca. Argentina 2–1.
The Sun · 23 June 1986 · front
“OUTCHA! Argies get their own back on us”
Scottish editions softened “on us” to “as England tumble out”.
Boyle 2023Daily Mirror · 23 June 1986 · front
“Fists Fly as England Go Out”
The cheat frame, then the second goal that killed them.
Boyle 2023Daily Mail · 23 June 1986 · back
“Hand it to Diego”
The pun that became the English name for the goal.
Boyle 20232016 · Nice
Dumbs Gone to Iceland
A nation of 330,000 as the punchline after England led.
The Sun · 28 June 2016 · front
“Dumbs Gone to Iceland”
Euro 2016 last sixteen. Iceland 2–1. Hodgson resigns.
Awful Announcing2007 · Wembley
The brolly morning
Croatia 3–2. England miss Euro 2008. The Sun that day was picture-led; no exact splash wording is used here.
Daily Mail · 22 November 2007 · back
“Great leaders inspire their men to glory. Steve McClaren will be remembered as a wally with a brolly.”
The umbrella photograph plus the line that became his name.
Guardian wrapDaily Mirror · 22 November 2007 · front
“England disgrace”
True front. A home defeat that dumped them out of a Euros.
Press round-upDaily Mirror · 22 November 2007 · back
“THE END”
End of the dream, end of McClaren — Mirror’s own gloss.
Guardian wrap