Gary Lineker
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And we could have won that game, but we didn't.
But I think 90, it's the one thing I look back on my career and just think, God, if only, if only we'd won that penalty shootout, because then you're within touching difference of footballing immortality.
Win the penalty shootout.
You're off the field.
Would you have taken one?
Would you have been up for taking one if you'd have been?
If they go in, that's all that counts.
That's all that counts.
But yeah, I think we got so close, didn't we?
And you ended up being captain in that.
But I'm glad things go through your mind like that.
Well, I'm going to, just before we finish, I'm going to ask you before we go as well about how do you think our chances are in the World Cup coming up?
But I just want you to
Reassure me that the story that I told about you when we played Yugoslavia and were in the tunnel, because you know your memory sometimes plays to it and you think, did that actually really happen?
When you were shaking that cage between the two teams, Yugoslavia on one side, England were on the other, I was at the back of the line, and you were going, shaking this cage, going, cage!
And I could see the fear in the eyes of the Yugoslavs.
They were in a tough race, obviously.