Should England and Senegal drag one another to the familiar realm of penalties on Sunday, whichever unlucky soul should end up the villain will not be short on sympathy from either dugout.
For Gareth Southgate and Euro ’96, read Aliou Cisse and the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations; for Wembley, Mali’s Stade du 26 Mars. Different times and places, but the same guilt and heartache, both men missing crucial spot-kicks that proved terminal to their countries’ hopes of being crowned kings of their continents.
