"To send the English back home is wonderful. It is a very big joy but it was very, very hard. I think everyone was waiting for us to win, and we are very happy to have won. Now we have to go out and start thinking about Holland. But the English, what passion!"

- Argentina coach Daniel Passarella

"It was unbelievable. We could not have asked more from the players. I don't know if destiny was against us. Everything went against us. But it is not a night for excuses. It is a night for us to be proud. David Beckham's sending off cost us dearly.

- England coach Glenn Hoddle

"It has happened three times now these penalty shoot-outs. Three times and we have lost them. Beckham is a silly offender in this match and he will regret it for a long, long time."

- Former manager Bobby Robson

"I just don't know what he was doing. Without being too harsh on David it cost us the game.

- Former manager Terry Venables