Euro 2012: day 23 – live!

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12.11pm: Gareth Southgate, who knows a thing or two about missing penalties (and, indeed, on cashing in on the fact), has called on England to appoint a sports psychologist in an effort to avoid yet more penalty shoot-out pain at major tournaments.

"I'm a big believer in sports psychology," he said. "Every major tennis player would work with somebody, every major golfer too, then everybody tells me 'football's different' but I can't see why. I'm sure it would have benefited me, definitely. It's not about luck. It is about performing a skill under pressure. I wasn't able to do that. I was going into the darkness. We need strategies for dealing with stress."

11.37am: Full(ish) story on Michel Platini's suggestion that Euro 2020 could be staged across all of Europe is here.

11.29am: Peter Ferry emails asks this: "Does anyone know the last time that two teams were both captained by goalkeepers in a major final (be it international or club football?)" And, since I'm trying to write breaking news pieces, look after the site and sub athletics copy, I'll throw this one over to you, dear readers.

11.24am: On the subject of how much it might cost fans to travel to 12 or 13 countries to watch their teams play, Mr Platini has reportedly said this: "There are low-cost airlines these days."

11.20am: News from Uefa's Michel Platini, a man trunbling along rapidly in the clown shoe-sized footsteps of Sepp Blatter:

Uefa president Michel Platini today revealed that Euro 2020 could be held "all
over Europe...in 12 or 13 cities". The idea would be to get rid of the notion of a host country and, instead, let the teams trot about all over Europe. "This matter will be discussed very seriously," he added, tweaking his big red nose.

Morning: First up - w quick round up of some of the stuff on site you may have missed.

Here's Sid Lowe on Andrés Iniesta:

Opponents look for him, surrounding him. Team-mates look to him, too. Vicente del Bosque has an almost allergic aversion to singling out players or elevating anyone above the others. So it means something when he says, as he did before Spain's second game: "Hopefully Andrés can be decisive – as he always is."

While here's tactics guru Michael Cox on the Pirlo conundrum, and how Spain and Italy might approach the final:

Whereas both England and Germany appeared surprised at Andrea Pirlo's influence, Spain recognised his threat. "In Pirlo," Xavi said before the tournament, "Italy have a genius with the ball."

Here's Richard Williams on a final to go down in history:

This is the tournament that defies you to look away. If 20 million people tuning in to watch the drama of England playing Italy in a quarter-final seems remarkable, the figure of 12m Britons switching on for Italy's semi-final with Germany on Thursday night is astounding, particularly with Rafael Nadal on the other channel.

Finally, read Marcus Christenson on how Antonio Cassano has battled back from fearing death to playing in the Euro 2012 final:

He did not want to listen to the team doctor, who kept urging him to go to hospital. "We argued for half an hour," Cassano recalled later, "before I agreed to visit the hospital. And that is when I started to have trouble speaking and thought about seeing my son again."

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