England v Italy game

[hideaway]

People have a go at England unfairly I think. OK we may not have beaten Italy on penalties - but the so called 'great Italians' had the same nil score as us at the end of 120 minutes.

[maggiebee]

Then some English yobs attacked Italian supporters who were celebrating!

[souldriver]

The best team won

[Mrsspagnoli57]

Agree it was unfair just to criticise England because it went to penalties-but lets be honest-a win on penalties for England would have been a travesty-Italy were the better team apart from 20mins in the first half. Forza Italia-sorry, I'm biased!

[Arksided]

I agree that England didn't deserve to beat the Italians, it always feels so bad to go out on penalties but the fact is they were not good enough to win in open play and although not the greatest performance in the four games from the lads.... it was a mile higher than two years ago.

[Smowball]

Totally agree with you - if it gets to penalties then its pretty damn close.

[Zeuhl]

The result was close - the performances weren't.

All it showed was that we aren't one of the top four footballing nations in europe.

But we already knew that.