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Joe Hart: 'we've come here to win games'
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 by SNTV

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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."

 

Standings
    Rank Team W/D/L Pts

    Cities & Stadiums

    The Top 3 Teams of Previous Tournaments

    Year Winners Runner-up Third place
    2008SpainGermanyRussia / Turkey
    2004GreecePortugalNetherlands / Czech Republic
    2000FranceItalyNetherlands / Portugal
    1996GermanyCzech RepublicFrance / England
    1992DenmarkGermanyNetherlands / Sweden
    1988NetherlandsSoviet UnionItaly / West Germany
    1984FranceSpainDenmark / Portugal
    1980West GermanyBelgiumCzechoslovakia
    1976CzechoslovakiaWest GermanyNetherlands
    1972West GermanySoviet UnionBelgium
    1968ItalyYugoslaviaEngland
    1964SpainSoviet UnionHungary
    1960Soviet UnionYugoslaviaCzechoslovakia