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England are into the quarter-finals of the World Cup after winning a dramatic penalty shootout against Colombia in the last-16. Jordan Pickford saved from Carlos Bacca before Eric Dier struck the winning spot kick to spark jubilant scenes in Moscow and across the country back home.
It's a well-earned rest day today but that doesn't mean the World Cup 2018 news cycle stops oh no. We'll be building up to all the quarter-final ties plus we'll have the latest from the Three Lions camp as the history of their achievement begins to sink in.
We'll also have all the latest views from our men in Russia, best pictures and video and an awful lot more throughout the day as the biggest football tournament in the world reaches the business end.
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Remember when England played Belgium and Thibaut Courtois said Pickford wasn't tall enough?
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For some teams the World Cup experience is already over - England fans know all about that kind of disappointment from recent years. But with failure, comes the chance to learn from mistakes, and Nigeria had plenty to be positive about despite crashing out in the group stages.
The new Brighton & Hove Albion signing told BBC Sport they must learn to be 'a bit dirty':
"It's always important when you play internationals to be a bit dirty," the defender told BBC Sport.
"That's what Argentina has, definitely, and you also need to be cold-blooded - that's probably the most important (lesson from this World Cup)."
"We have experienced players, young players, talented players - and there are even more players that are not in the team yet - and we have to keep developing them and investing in their football education.
"We just have to keep working and keep our focus on advancing year after year and then in the next four years we will have a good team - maybe an even better one."
The Maguire's one of the many families that resembled Ian Wright and Lee Dixon as Eric Dier's penalty went in.
Fed up of reading everyone's view on the England game? Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words...and here's 100 of them. So I'll let you workout the maths on that one.
England fans may have been outnumbered by Colombia fans last night, but they still made plenty of noise...
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