I'm proud of the England team. [I Love Real Football]

It hurts but then sh++ happens in life and there are a lot more important things than football.

You can blame the players who missed penalties though you shouldn't. You can blame Southgate for making some wrong calls but that is not the point because the big picture says we did pretty well.

What would you rather have?

Maybe you want an England team that loses 4-1 to an unheralded Germany team? Maybe a team that finishes below Uruguay and Costa Rica in a WC group? In the last Euros, we got knocked out in the quarter finals by Iceland.

The players and the management of this team made tremendous progress. We did better than Germany, France, Belgium and other great powers.

We've got the final and lost by the narrowest possible margin against a strong Italy team at the peak of its powers. The result could very easily have gone the other way too. To be serious contenders means to risk getting hurt. Its better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.

The performance of the England team was strong and its a young team. Well done for raising the level and for competing so well.

Until next time.

Burnley123

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Kae20 · 56-60, FVIP

I agree 100%

Its the attitudes we are now seeing that totally ruins the game of football its self for me .

Collectively as a team our boys worked wonders throughout this tournament and achieved the finals , that takes , guts ,determination, skill.

Instead of holding heads high , and conceding with dignity some of the so called fans have reacted in such a disgusting way, they tarnish the effort those boys gave ..& they gave it all.

Penalties is and always will be a lottery. End of lesson.

If there was any cause for concern I would point at The Coach & Manager Gareth.

Ultimately he could have been more strategic & optimised the choice of players throughout the game.

Perhaps if he had done this ..the end game might not of went to Penalties.

Maybe now he will take a leaf out of Italys stlyle of management..who used his players tactically throughout.

Oh well.. still its only a game!

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Kae20 Excellent post.

I agree he got some calls wrong in the game but he is the guy who got us there.

Kae20 · 56-60, FVIP

@Burnley123 😊 Certainly this goes back to what I was saying about the nasty secment of so called fans .

Who dis honoured our teams efforts, skills & triumphs to get to yesterday .This includes our Gareth.

Nyloncapes · 61-69, M

@Burnley123 agree with everything you say, but I can not understand why Kane suppose to be best striker in the world, and Southgate playing him where he is , don’t think he had a touch in the penalty box last night , always on half way line, he needs to be in the box and get the service, so he can do what he is good at scoring goals, he is just being wasted

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Nyloncapes He's good but not last night.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Kae20 Yeah. I posted this in my lunch break before I saw the news so I didn't know.

Its embarrassing that a section of England fans do this.