[Devongone]

I kinda think scoring 48 out of 49 penalties in front of a crowd suggests Le Tissier might know more about taking penalties than a guy who took one and missed one in big-time competition.

Le Tissier suffered the same kind of problem with international selection that Jack Grealish has, too good, too unusual, too maverick, too left field.

I feel taking the knee whilst taking a penalty would be counter-productive. Matt Le Tissier was one of the boys abused by Southampton's youth coach who was thinking "perhaps this naked massage isn't right" ......... and he came through to be one of the best English footballers of my long lifetime. Penalty-taking is one of those things you need to feel right about. If you dither about you probably won't feel right when you reach the ball, if you always hop third step in, then fine that will feel right.

If we want our best players ever always to lose in big moments, keep doing what we're doing. You can't ever reproduce a World Cup Final on a training ground. You don't need to be Einstein to work that one out. But you can hone a technique so that you are as confident as you can be, that under pressure it and you will hold up. Jonny Wilkinson spent lonely hours hoofing a rugby ball through the posts, and when it came to the last kick of the World Cup with the whole world watching, he just did it again.

Paul Merson was wonderful to watch, but his guide to life skills would be entitled The Thinking Man's Gazza. I wouldn't enlist for any of his philosophy classes any time soon if I were you. When we are talking planks ....