England and penalties: when will the torment end?
Like many spot-kick failures in the past, Harry Kane's gut-wrenching late miss as the Three Lions crashed out of the World Cup will be etched into the nation's memory for years to come. The England captain had emphatically tucked away from 12 yards earlier in the narrow 2-1 defeat to holders France, but Kane skied his second effort to spell the end of the Three Lions' campaign in Qatar at the quarter-finals.
The Tottenham Hotspur striker, usually so reliable from the spot, insisted afterwards that it was just a failure of technique. And while to an extent that is certainly true, there are certainly ways that his England teammates - and even boss Gareth Southgate - could have helped. Mirror Football takes a look....
