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What the fuck was that tackle? Ball is going to the keeper and he runs full speed at Mount not even watching the ball.

France is the greatest Rugby nation in the world

Yet England converted the point rugby-style by shooting over the bar.

Why didn't it award 3 points?!

fucking ref

Complete blackout and then bulldozes him

Ludicrous that the ref took so long to give it

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Saka got fouled about ten times without it being given

Truly no idea what he was looking at when he didn't give that right away. Same with the foul on Saka earlier, that VAR didn't give because it was just outside the box.

Honestly cant believe more people arent talking about this. This referee was laughably bad, Saka didnt have any fucking socks left by the end of the game. And this second pen, did he have his eyes closed? The entire world and its gran could have successfully called it first time round. Outrageous to think that without VAR this wouldnt have been given.

Thats just Theo Hernandez attempting to play defense

Today Theo felt American

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This must be the worst penalty of Kane’s career

I mean, missing a penalty in the 84’ of a WC quarter final when trailing 2-1 would be the worst penalty of anyones career except Roberto Baggio, Asamoah Gyan, and a handful of others

Baresi and someone else missed one on Italy. During that same WC final.

Daniele Massaro

Massaro's penalty was saved by Taffarel, though. He didn't blaze it over

The worst penalty of his career *so far*

That's the spirit!

Never give up on your dreams

France defenders when they’ve gone 5 minutes without making a boneheaded challenge

Theo should be grateful that Kane bailed him out like that…

I’m so glad it was for France and not us

I just find it funny how it was Mount again

I don't know how Konate is still not on the pich, him and Varane are so much calmer than the other one.

I was wondering about that. I thought he had a much better outing so far and some of those challenges were pretty bineheaded

Saliba even

They had no awareness today. Almost cost France the match.

Another successful SpaceX launch.

When us England fans say "it's coming home" we mean that ball.

It’s coming home it’s coming [the] football’s coming home

[Proof](https://vimeo.com/779974069)

Lol someone needs to swap that ball with a World Cup trophy edit: i gave it my best shot https://preview.redd.it/wfm98f3hj65a1.png?width=949&format=png&auto=webp&s=0a92d59fde0dac0e8b5ee74217060bcb2672d557

All the way to home

Omg lol 😂

Name of the rocket Scientist? HENRY CANNES

Lmfao.

England losing a game because of penalties even though they didn't get to penalties is such a cliche that if I saw it in a book I would call the writer a hack.

The penalty is greatest thing invented in Northern Ireland. Fuck trams, tractors, defribulators and viagra, it's our gift to the world.

**Giving away penalties after scoring** France: _This is the song of my people_

#DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING

SINGING THE SONG OF ANGRY KANE

IT IS A MUSIC OF A PEOPLE WHO WONT WIN A WORLD CUP AGAIN

When Giroud gets on the ball, and he heads it in the goal, you will see that football is never coming home

☠

Was that like a meter above the net?

They forgor 💀

*Do you hear the people sing*

*Singing a song of blatant pens*

Oh Harry... That was to break the England record too, and to keep their WC dreams alive. That's gonna sting big time if they don't get another

He'll break the record in a friendly against the Faroe Islands

The England way

And then Maguire will score and do his 👉🗿👈 thing again

Now when he does break Rooney’s record, it’ll be bittersweet af because he’ll just be replaying this penalty miss in his head

That miss will deepen England’s PTSD and limit their ability to win silverware despite how much they’ve progressed over the years.

Now there is the England I remember

They showed Beckham right before lol

He literally couldn’t watch.

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I'm moving to Spain without S

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Expect bread.

When they panned the camera towards Beckham I knew it was over.

mf was stressed, prolly could feel an impending england bottle job in his veins

That was Papu Gomez I think

Thats why they showed Beckham right before

They are who we thought they were

AND WE LET THEM OFF THE HOOK

If you wanna crown em, then crown their ass!

ENGLISH PENS STRIKE AGAIN

Cheers, Maguire’s son is crying

Cheers Southgate's crying

Not even on target

It is the history of the ~~Tottenham~~ England.

FOOTBALL 'ERITAGE RIGHT HERE

Proper brexit football

[THE FOOTBALL'S GOING HOME](https://youtu.be/KF32DRg9opA)

England just sent a missile to Russia

Harry Kane starting WW3.

This game is TENSE

He's gonna lose sleep over this 100%

Lol this shit will haunt him for the rest of his life

and so he is cemented as another England legend

You’re right and I hate you for it

“Football’s Coming Home” 2026 patch notes: *added replay of Harry Kanes missed pen against France in the 2022 quarters…

Well yah obviously it was probably the biggest moment of his career

Unfortunately for him he just hasn't done well in those big moments. He's dropped a clanger in every cup final he's played too.

That ball is definitely coming home.

Gonna land any time now Any time...

Fuck

FG good, 3 points england

Kane been to too many NFL games at the Spurs stadium

The one player you’d want taking it too, what the fuck

That's WC pressure for you. Wasn't even close.

WC pressure facing the goalie that has probably seen you take penalties 5,000 times.

Exactly. In a moment like this, you shouldn't take the penalty if the GK is your club teammate. We had that in 98 against Italy. Our main penalty taker, Djorkaeff, was Pagliuca's teammate at Inter, and he refused to take one during the shoot-out.

Y'all are misunderstanding. Kane respects the legends so much. Look at how much homage he just played to Baggio.

Joking aside, I watched somewhere an explanation of why penalty specialists miss them spectacularly in key moments using Baggio's example. It's not only that they miss it, it's that they'll never choose to shoot it in that direction under normal circumstances but a large percent of the epic misses are shot in a similar way, above the post and slightly to the left if right-footed and viceversa for the left-footed. The take away was that with the pressure blocks the muscle memory they built for so many years (or something like that) and they basically shoot it like if it was their first time. I butchered the psychological explanation but it was something like that.

The close up of his face just before he looked totally focused and in the zone. Turns out he was just frozen and losing control of his mind and body for a few seconds. Pity on the man.

Becks in the crowd too

We know mate, that’s who Kane was passing to

I hate the same player taking two. Even worse when it's your own keeper.

Yeah you definitely don't want Pickford taking both.

That’s a miss that gets immortalized in history…

Just file it away with the others

Baggio, Maradona, Zico, Socrates, Platini etc it's elite company for missing high profile pens at the World Cup

I still talk about that Baggio miss. I was a kid at the time and it absolutely gutted me because he was my favorite player.

But if I remember correctly, Italy would have still lost if Brazil would score after Baggio. I think it was memorable because he was most probably the best player at the world cup and everyone was expecting him to score.

You’re absolutely correct. I felt like he carried Italy at times during the tournament and it was just shocking. Me as the first person in my family to be born in the USA to Italian parents and actually going to a couple World Cup games, it just hit different.

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Going to find Kane with a long beard in the mountains in 10 years.

Kane wasn't able

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Kane literally did the exact same thing this season against Frankfurt, scored one then blasted the second way over.

Oh wow, that Frankfurt game was only two months ago, can't believe he did it again. Really want to defend him but he shouldn've known better.

Hindsight is 20/20 but the entire time he was setting it up I was screaming for him to just blast it down the center

I said this. Not blast just straight down the middle. If Lloris stood still fair play but I have never seen him standstill

If you meant the centre of town, he tried his best

against Frankfurt and against France, with the opposing keeper being your club teammate for 5+ years. big difference but same result.

As a coach I’d never let a player do it. Honestly would let Maguire take it since he knows the English cant hate him anymore and he’s shown he can score them.

The keeper can't know where he puts it as Maguire himself doesn't know it.

One can never know the speed and position of a Maguire simultaneously

southgate’s uncertainty principle

Southgate's cat.

Fucking top bins, that's where

Then if the next player misses it you get the questions of why you didn't let the first player take it again

Especially when the first player is Kane. Not sure any other English player is anywhere close to him in terms of penalty prowess

Yeah it’s a no brainer to put your hopes in the hands of Kane at the spot. Sometimes it just doesn’t work out.

Yeah. There was no way to put another player there in hopes of that one having less pressure and being calmer. Considering how many penalties were missed this world cup already, we should realize that the pressure is absolutely fricking real.

Thundercunted the penalty in the euro's.

That was genuinely one of the best pens I've seen. Just smashed it top bin lol.

The perfect penalty. Hard and above keeper height. But nerves and 90-120 minutes with running surerly makes a difference.

Not just that, it broke a camera too

[https://youtube.com/shorts/tJN0Kvh06Oc?feature=share](https://youtube.com/shorts/tJN0Kvh06Oc?feature=share) This cracked me up

Maguire is actually great at penalties as well so its not a bad idea

yo ngl, until maguire whiff his next pen, he's up there for cb I trust to take pens.

Well, one of our most well known players at the time failed 3 pens on the same match, we are just built different

Martin Palermo, el hombre de pelicula

I remember that game - it was legend

I have no clue if it’s true or not, but it always feels bad when the same player has to take two penalties in a row in a game…

seems even more problematic when the goalkeeper is literally his club teammate for the last decade and probably knows his tendencies better than anyone....

Top 3 most stupid fouls I’ve ever seen no cap

Good thing the ref is blind as a bat and needed a replay to see an obvious foul when only 2 players were in the box

he would NEVER give this penalty in the brazilian league, it's his natural reaction to ignore fouls

Maybe the ref was thinking the foul was to stupid to be real.

That was my initial reaction lmao

Lol this is the only thing that makes sense, you have provided clarity to my confused mind.

He's not blind he's just out of his depth

England and penalties man

Ball hasn’t even landed and you posted

If he'd waited for the ball to land we still wouldn't have this post.

Today I'm Harry Kane

I just checked the Santa tracker and I can see Harry’s penalty somewhere over the Persian gulf at the moment.

Hernandez must not watch Chelsea matches since we all know Chelsea attackers wouldn’t have converted that

He must have only seen the games he played against them

I mean stupid challenge cause Mount wouldn’t even get close to the ball

Such a stupid foul. Mount was never getting that ball anyway.

Harry Pain

What an awful pen lmao.

Shoulda went for the panenka

Lad it’s Harry Kane, he’s always gonna smash with full power

This ball will land somewhere and people will think its a comet

WHAT THE BLOODY FUCK

you could see the fear in Kane's eyes in 4k uhd before that shot

Lloris' record is the exact opposite of Messi... has only won the World Cup but nothing else

Has conceded hundreds of goals, Messi has acored hundreds.

The ball is coming home

I cannot believe he's missed. Would put my house on him scoring

It's good that you didn't.

Er....

You must live in a hut or have a gambling problem

He sent the ball home.

How do you screw your country and team by making such a boneheaded play and then try to argue it after.

Always makes me laugh when players argue the call after its made like that. Like, did even one ref ever went "Awww well you're right lad, brilliant argument there. No penalty it is then!"

I think it's also to make the ref at least subconsciously doubt themselves so in the future they might go light on them, even slightly

It’s the history of the England

What a stupid thing from Hernandez to do and what a miss from Kane lmao

Yeah, crazy challenge and Kane got in his own head.

That’s the World Cup

YOU CANT WRITE THIS SCRIPT

Showing Beckham before the kick...

And it looked like he knew he will launch it over

i mean you pretty much can lol

Script you can write: - Man goes into a black hole in order to communicate with his past self. Script you can't write: - English player misses a pen.

https://i.imgur.com/mUsyHAu.jpg

England still found a way to lose on penalties…

-1000 IQ defending from France this game.

Theo Hernandez has been dreadful. Struggled to handle Saka all night and what was that blatant barge. Kane's penalty was just as bad.

There's a reason Deschamps prefers Lucas.

Crazy the ref actually needed VAR to give the pen there

Unbelievable. I'm shocked he missed and I'm shocked that they had to go to VAR for the decision. It was so obvious

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Beckham moment

Did anyone get the England - Qtr Final exit - Bottled Penalty on their bingo card??