Penalties, red cards and shocks - England's 58 years of hurt

England's men person now gone 58 years since their past occurrence successful a awesome tournament, erstwhile they lifted nan 1966 World Cup connected location soil.

They came adjacent to ending nan tally astatine Euro 2020 but yet mislaid to Italy connected penalties successful nan final, and nan play betwixt those days has been filled pinch plentifulness of disappointment.

BBC Sport has picked 10 of nan astir heartbreaking moments including punishment shootout exits, reddish cards and daze defeats.

We've only picked retired moments from tournaments themselves, not times erstwhile England person grounded to suffice - those are excessively achy to moreover mention!

Let's commencement pinch arguably nan astir achy of them all.

England yet reached their first last since 1996 astatine Euro 2020 erstwhile they played 5 of their group and knockout shape matches astatine Wembley.

Luke Shaw's early extremity gave them nan cleanable commencement but they were pegged backmost by Leonardo Bonucci.

They went connected to suffer 3-2 connected penalties pinch substitutes Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka missing. It had to beryllium penalties, didn't it?

The tourney that started to reignite belief.

England made it to nan semi-finals and took nan lead against Croatia pinch an early Kieran Trippier free-kick, but they yet mislaid successful other time. A conclusion by Belgium successful nan third-placed play-off followed too.

There was 1 affirmative from nan tourney though: England ended a tally of 5 consecutive defeats successful punishment shootouts pinch occurrence complete Colombia successful nan past 16.

One of nan astir disappointing exits.

England were dense favourites against Iceland and led wrong 5 minutes done Wayne Rooney.

But little than a 4th of an hr later England were down and they were incapable to move it around, leaving Roy Hodgson rubbing his look successful disbelief successful nan dugout and later without a job.

It feels overseas to telephone a 4-1 thrashing a arguable exit but that is precisely what England's conclusion by Germany successful nan past 16 was.

Fabio Capello's broadside had stuttered done nan group shape and went 2-0 down to nan Germans earlier Matthew Upson sewage 1 back.

Frank Lampard - and nan full England squad - thought they had levelled pinch a superb dipping onslaught that bounced disconnected nan barroom and intelligibly crossed nan statement but Uruguayan referee Jorge Larrionda and his officials waved play on.

England were incensed astatine nan break and conceded 2 second-half goals to beryllium knocked out.

England were acold from fluent astatine nan 2006 World Cup - needing an ain extremity to hit Paraguay, earlier 2 precocious goals saw them past Trinidad and Tobago to unafraid progression.

A 1-0 triumph complete Ecuador acknowledgment to David Beckham's extremity put them successful nan quarter-finals but different tight matter laic ahead.

Wayne Rooney was sent disconnected successful nan last-eight necktie against Portugal, and location was nan celebrated wink from Manchester United team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo aft nan incident too.

England held connected for a goalless tie aft other clip but mislaid 3-1 connected penalties pinch only Owen Hargreaves scoring.

We're starting to get a spot of a taxable now, aren't we?

Penalties, Portugal and cardinal players being progressive successful moments to hide connected nan measurement to different exit.

England led early successful this quarter-final done Michael Owen earlier Rooney was forced disconnected done wounded successful nan first half.

The Three Lions were pegged backmost precocious connected by Helder Postiga, earlier Rui Costa and Lampard scored successful other clip to unit penalties.

England went connected to suffer 6-5 pinch David Beckham missing nan first spot-kick and Darius Vassell missing nan cardinal goal.

Knockout games are difficult to triumph astatine nan champion of times, but a reddish paper really does harm your chances.

England really led successful nan last-16 necktie arsenic Alan Shearer and Michael Owen cancelled retired Gabriel Batistuta's opener for Argentina.

Javier Zanetti equalised successful first-half stoppage clip earlier Beckham was sent disconnected 2 minutes into nan 2nd half for kicking retired astatine Diego Simeone.

England mislaid nan shootout 4-3 pinch Paul Ince and David Batty some missing.

Beckham, of course, went connected to people nan victor against Argentina successful nan 2002 World Cup.

England sewage past Spain successful nan quarter-finals pinch a 4-2 punishment shootout win, pursuing a 0-0 draw.

Their occurrence from nan spot was ne'er going to proceed though, was it?

They mislaid 6-5 to Germany successful nan semi-finals, pursuing a 1-1 tie aft other time, pinch existent head Gareth Southgate seeing nan decisive punishment saved.

You guessed it, much punishment pain.

It was astatine nan hands of West Germany this clip and came aft a 1-1 tie pinch Gary Lineker cancelling retired Andreas Brehme's opener successful nan semi-final.

England mislaid 4-3 connected penalties pinch Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle failing to score.

Paul Gascoigne was successful tears aft nan crippled and that image has go 1 of nan astir memorable successful England's shot history.

Another arguable exit acknowledgment to Diego Maradona's celebrated 'Hand of God' extremity for Argentina.

Maradona roseate supra Peter Shilton and flicked nan shot successful pinch his manus to springiness Argentina nan lead.

Referee Ali Ben Nasser from Tunisia awarded nan extremity and past sought confirmation from his linesman aft England protested.

Maradona scored again 4 minutes later earlier Lineker pulled 1 backmost precocious on.

Shilton said successful 2020 that Maradona ne'er apologised for nan extremity and it had "left a bitter taste".