it did feel like a pivotal era of English football where it went from being the biggest thing in football to suddenly being basically the dominant story in the cultural issues at the time and that's why I think sven's Shenanigans off the pitch were were such big news it was a time where Beckham Mania was at its highest it was a time where Wayne run he was breaking into the England side and kind of redefining what it meant to be a Wonder kid early on in sven's reign as England manager we had the 5-1 against Germany we had the Greece free kick a month later and then let's not forget we also had beating Argentina in the 2002 World cup which even though it was a pretty a horrific watch as an England fan and it was by no means a dominant display was another kind of marker in terms of progress something England hadn't done for a long time getting one over the old enemy Beck and scoring a penalty with an iconic celebration in the corner as an England fan three moments there in 12 months it seemed to to catapult the England football team in the psyche around it into a different stratosphere