Lee Morton sat on the blue pitch and did not move for several minutes. Some teammates stood and watched India’s celebrations, stunned, with hands on heads. Others sank to their knees, unable to take it in.
A shootout defeat by India in the quarter-finals means 36 years of hurt will become 40 before Great Britain’s men next have a chance to break their barren Olympic run. But this was surely the most agonising exit of all since that golden moment in Seoul in 1988.
