Rick Edwards

and i just couldn't believe an england player could perform at that level on that stage i thought that that level or that moment on a pitch was reserved for brazilians italians i didn't feel like that moment there was reserved for for english players i thought we were the hard workers and the grafters but trips man what a legend wow special

And then it, you know, Salam righty points out.

Croatia going to Croatia.

Croatia at good.

And we, you know, we lost.

Even from the stands, you notice the ebb and flow of the game.

In the second half, it just felt like it was like slowly but surely.

It was just slowly slipping away.

And it just felt like it was slowly slipping away all the way through until it inevitably, you know, when it happened, then...

I remember being gutted.

Of course I remember being gutted in England.

I was watching the semi-final.

I would have loved to have had to have the conversation about staying for a final, but I didn't.

But even then, right, at the end of the game, they're playing Don't Look Back in Anger on the speaker and Gareth Southgate's doing the rounds and the players are doing the rounds.

It's a bit on the nose, isn't it?

It's a little bit on the nose, but I remember everyone just sort of going...

Yeah, do you know what?

Honestly, I remember being, I was crestfallen when we lost against Italy and I was there at Wembley.

I was crestfallen, absolutely crestfallen.

But this one just felt like, this has been a great journey.