Remember, extra-time and penalties ONLY exist because they seem fairer than simply tossing a coin after 90 mins to see who has won. they are simply there as a tiebreaker, and surely we can find better tiebreakers.

My general feeling with regard to “deserving” things - if you can’t score, you deserve to go out. If you happen to still go through, you are incredibly lucky and undeserving.

Maybe now Owen Hargreaves can get the respect he deserves. Gerrard was the only member of the midfield who could match him for effort, intelligence, and a contribution to England winning. Hargreaves did for Gerrard and Lampard what Makelele did for Zidane or Mascherano did for Riquelme, and he deserves to be seen as indispensible.

England will just have to actually start PRACTICING them instead of trying to miss - I mean 3 out of 4 missed is pretty pathetic!

My system condenced to one para = After 90 mins and its a drawn game, the manager / coach has to take of three players. Which players is up to him. If in the very unlikely event of it remaining a draw after 20 mins, the manager coach has to take off a further two players. In games when my system has been used (by my brother in Australia) no games have ever reached this stage, as some fresh substitute has always scored. But the reductions can carry on until someone scores so ending the game.

Recently on Elite Football talk, they ran a debate into my system and had 2500 hits in a few days, the majority backing it. Please try the same debate on your site and let us see what the fans think.

English FA paid millions to probably the worst coach in the history of the world cup finals to sit on the bench to look clueless. Walcott selection is now legendary. I really believe that if you or I became England’s coach, the law of probably would guarantee us making better decisions by sheer fluke than any decision Eriksson has made in the last 4 years.

One better performance (about time) from a bunch of over paid prima donnas and you are praising them. Blood & tears my arse. To me they were just Spurs with a bigger average pay roll - big game bottlers.

I also dislike C. Ronaldo, but don’t blame him for being pushed by your little angel, or converting the penalty, yes you are supposed to score them. Don’t blame him for your loss.

If they performed better during the game (like scoring, for example) it probably wouldn’t have gone to penalties anyway. England had all the best resources but couldn’t do a better homework on penalty taking / saving. You know why the Germans are so good at penalties, they practiced like hell! Why was Mad Jens so good at saving them? They studied Argentine squad players’ penalty taking pattern for the last 2 years and summarised it on a ‘cheat sheet’ Mad Jens tucked inside his socks. Once he knew who the next penalty taker was he took it out and read what the trend was probable is for this taker.

England forgot about penalties.