England's World Cup dream is over after a semi-final defeat to Croatia, but the Three Lions leave Russia with pride

Sunday Supplement

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3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Neil Ashton is joined by Matt Dickinson, the chief sports writer of the Times, and Jeremy Cross, the chief sports writer of the Daily Star, to dissect England's World Cup semi-final defeat to Croatia. The panel sat down just a few hours after the final whistle to reflect on the painful loss and the positives Gareth Southgate and his squad can take from their campaign in Russia.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sunday Supplement Podcast brought to you by Bet 365 and at Bet 365 they don't do ordinary.
0:07.4	It's where every game, every goal and every point matters whatever the sport, whatever the moment, it's never ordinary at Bet 365.
0:16.2	Please gamble responsibly, over 18s only. Welcome to World Cup
0:25.0	World Cup supplement with Me, near Ashton.
0:27.0	We're in Moscow this evening, a bit of a different tone, I'm afraid.
0:31.0	To our previous show's got General Cross alongside me from the
0:33.8	daily Star Matt Dickinson's back from the Times guys we've been beaten in the
0:37.6	World Cup semi-final by Croatia this evening we're recording this it's about
0:42.2	quarter to three in the morning in Moscow guys
0:44.4	first of all what's your what's your immediate emotion reaction to to
0:49.3	defeat the World Cup semi-final?
0:51.3	overwhelming disappointment really.
0:55.0	We played so well in the first half.
0:58.0	We were knocking on the door of football heaven really.
1:01.0	One-nill up dream Dream Start played really well past it around so the best football
1:05.8	of playing in the old tournament but you know it's that old adage of don't take
1:10.7	your chances and pay the price at the end if we'd have been
1:14.0	two and a up at half time I think we'd have gone to win again yeah but we will
1:17.4	never ever get a better chance to get to a World Cup fine this one and that's that's
1:21.8	really hard to take.
1:22.6	Yeah, do you have the same thoughts?
1:24.6	Yeah, I guess so it's the disappointment sort of seeps in as the further you get away
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