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They'll have practiced a lot in training and know inside out who the best penalty takers are. Your proposal is that in the final, right before the shoot out, Southgate should tell Saka: "Sorry, you're only 19 so I don't think you're up to taking a penalty, even though you've proven in training that you're one of the top five pen takers on the pitch". That's going to be great for the lad's confidence, especially if he then has to go up later in the shootout. Then you've also got pressure on the player taking his place because they're having to step up even though they're not as skilled at pens. 19 isn't automatically too young to take a penalty. Owen or Rooney, for example, would have stuck it away (or maybe missed, as any player sometimes does). Everyone wants someone to blame for England losing but picking the best players to take the penalties is actually very sensible. They just missed.

Not aiming this specifically at you but Southgate has made brave decisions all through the tournament and it's massively been to our benefit. Yet a couple of decisions don't come off in the final, despite being pretty sound on paper, and people decide to leap on that.

23 in 28. Nice

When was the last time we signed a player with a goalscoring record as good as Armstrong's? 28 in 40 is pretty phenomenal. Mane got 16 in 26 one season but then only had 13 in 33 the year before he joined

My take: If Redmond tries to take players on and loses the ball then the boo boys will be on his back. He's a confidence player and so takes the safe option

My memory is equally unreliable but given that Le Saux was with us for two seasons, it's possible that we're both right

I somehow missed Kerry Dixon off my list (sorry Sue)

I didn't realise he played for us 44 times actually. My memory is of him in our relegation season where he must have been 36/37 years old, and by then I thought his crossing and use of the ball was fantastic but he was painfully slow

There's a certain generation of Saints fans who fondly remember stars like Case coming and doing a good job for us in their later years. However, at my age I more remember the disappointment of Hirst, Speedie, Howells, J Redknapp. The best I can think of is Le Saux and even his legs had completely gone. Can't remember if Mark Hughes was actually any good but he didn't bang in the goals like I perhaps naively expected

I wouldn't boo but they're just silly songs, who cares if people want to boo. I wouldn't be mortality offended if I went to a game in Italy and the fans booed our crap anthem. I also don't really understand what the FA are supposed to do to stop people booing

This is surely a minority opinion now? He was incredible in that game, Denmark couldn't get a hold of him, he was going past players constantly and still running right to the end of the game. The thing you could criticise previously was his use of the ball, but in that game, aside from one wayward shot, I don't remember him doing much else wrong

We'll never know for sure but I thought the FK was a real bullet that flew at quite an unusual angle, so personally wouldn't blame him for that. His distribution and general temperament are a real worry though

It's not in the interests of Blackburn or the player to rush things in case they get a better offer

I still don't know how he isn't starting Grealish but I found it so strange how critical people were of him as a manager

They haven't taken anything out so far so they presumably know that relegation will cost them far more

If England get to the final, will Southgate have won over the doubters or will he be blamed for not winning it?

Because he used to play for us and our fans are obsessed with bringing back old players even when they're past their prime

I think it's plausible that he said "yeah ok, I'm interested, let's see what they have to say". But that's a long way from forcing through a move or being upset if it doesn't happen. Ultimately he shouldn't have signed that contract if he had ambitions to leave at this point.

He's been at Southampton for a decade. Some people would be fine with that, and that's totally fine, but a wealthy young man in his mid-20s can be forgiven for wanting to try something different in a different place. I'd probably be angling for a move to Italy rather than Birmingham but it's a reasonable position

If I was him I'd be interested in the move just for a change of scene as much as anything. Not everyone wants to spend their whole life working in the same place for the same company. Add to that the fact that Villa probably are a step up at the moment

Happily I think JWP is professional enough that we could make him stay and he would still perform. He has a long contract and I'm not convinced Villa will pay the £50m+ we'd need to sell.

What age was JWP when he finally started to convince?

I think he gets one more season. He didn't push on this year but development isn't always a linear process and he's young enough that he could have a breakthrough. Obviously running out of time though

He seems to be getting further north with every transfer

I still think he's got something. Hopefully he can learn the trade