Thanks, but congrats because the truth is Italy deserved it even if I think Chiellini should have got a straight red for dragging Saka back the way he did.

England looked fantastic for half an hour and we were carving the Italians up down the flanks, but a combination of Italy changing tactics to push our wong backs further back and England losing momentum changed things.

As soon as Southgate was looking to sub players based on penalties I said to Helen, that's a mistake.

Bringing an 18 and 22-year old on when they hadn't been involved in the game into that kind of atmosphere was highly risky.

I can't think of a football equivalent to what he did, or baseball for that matter, so I'll go with it's akin to a golfer playing 4 rounds of a major and bringing on a better putter to make a 20-foot putt on the last gree to win.

Oh, and he's a rookie, and he has 65,000 fans screaming, and he's also black and will get racially abused on social media if he misses.

Having said that, he made some brilliant decisions in other games that I didn't agree with and worked out well, so he may know a tad more than me

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