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IMO England have had better individuals and squads of players and not reached a major final. Southgate did that and was within a pen kick of winning the whole thing. For all his mistakes tonight, you can't ignore 4-0 Ukraine and their goals against record. They lost 1 goal in open play.
They were outstanding for a spell against Ukraine but I thought they played well within themselves for much of the tournament.

I’m delighted Italy won for many reasons but I’m delighted that the team who played the most positive and aggressive football throughout the tournament won.

There’s a cracking, positive team to be built out of those England players but you just feel they’ll always fall short playing like that. Like Stevie Clarke’s tentative Scotland. And Jack Ross’ tentative Hibs.

It feels to me like England, Scotland and Hibs have the players to go a step further if the players were just let off the leash a bit more often.