It was an incident which went down in the pantheon of England heartaches in a major tournament.
With the 2006 World Cup quarter final against Portugal balanced on a knife edge, a seemingly innocuous incident on the half-way line saw referee Horacio Marcelo Elizondo brandish a red card to the Three Lions’ great hope Wayne Rooney.
Replays showed that Rooney had stamped on Ricardo Carvalho, leaving England to battle on valiantly with ten men, taking the game to penalties before the inevitable disappointment.
