Quite tricky sports quiz June 29: Penalty heroes and zeroes
It was familiar penalty heartache for England’s footballers when they crashed out in a shoot-out to Italy in the Euros on Sunday night.
The side were denied a semi-final spot against Germany (probably not a bad thing) as they bowed out of a major competition at the quarter-finals stage once again.
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Hide AdSince losing to Germany in the semis of the 1990 World Cup, England have been knocked out of a further five major competitions on penalties.
So for this week’s Quite Tricky Sports Quiz , can you name all those England players who have missed spot kicks in those six shoot-out defeats?
1990 Lost to Germany, World Cup semi
1996 Lost to Germany, Euros semi
1998 Lost to Argentina, World Cup QF
2004 Lost to Portugal, Euros QF
2006 Lost to Portugal, World Cup QF
2012 Lost to Italy, Euro QF
Bonus question, The last team we beat on penalties were Spain in the quarter finals of Euro 96, but who were the four successful English penalty takers? We’ll reveal the answers later on today.