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England goalkeeper Joe Hart insisted on Thursday that Roy Hodgson's side cannot be content with reaching the quarter-finals, ahead of their last-eight clash with Italy on Sunday.
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SOUNDBITE (English) England goalkeeper Joe Hart
(Reporter asking: "Would you take one of the first five (penalties) if required?):
"If they let me, yeah, yeah, I'd put my name forward, 100%. But hopefully it won't come to that. (Reporter asking: "The nation holds its breath if it goes to penalties, but as a keeper do you think, no, bring it on?") Yeah, really, it's the kind of situations where you have a chance to do your thing for the team. But like I said, hopefully it won't come to that. But if it is required to go to the penalties to go through, so be it, that's the road we're going to take."
SOUNDBITE (English) England goalkeeper Joe Hart:
"We're not them guys, we're winners. The whole point of coming here is not keep people happy and keep people off our backs, like i said before. We have not come here so that we can go home and not get bothered,
we've come here to win games and be successful for us and for the country and make people proud of the
English football team. But if it didn't go right, I don't like to talk about that, but we'd like to leave having given everything, whether it makes people happy or keep the press off our back, whatever, as long as we know we've done everything we can, everything in our power."
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The Top 3 Teams of Previous Tournaments
Year | Winners | Runner-up | Third place |
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2008 | Spain | Germany | Russia / Turkey |
2004 | Greece | Portugal | Netherlands / Czech Republic |
2000 | France | Italy | Netherlands / Portugal |
1996 | Germany | Czech Republic | France / England |
1992 | Denmark | Germany | Netherlands / Sweden |
1988 | Netherlands | Soviet Union | Italy / West Germany |
1984 | France | Spain | Denmark / Portugal |
1980 | West Germany | Belgium | Czechoslovakia |
1976 | Czechoslovakia | West Germany | Netherlands |
1972 | West Germany | Soviet Union | Belgium |
1968 | Italy | Yugoslavia | England |
1964 | Spain | Soviet Union | Hungary |
1960 | Soviet Union | Yugoslavia | Czechoslovakia |