The Times – Penalty curse denies England their dream 

It was “one last fateful kick of a ball” that ended England’s dream, the Times notes. It describes the final at Wembley as having “the cruellest of Hollywood twists”. It is now 55 years and counting since England’s last trophy win. “After all that time you would think that defeat should become easier to bear,” its chief sports writer Matt Dickinson says, “but, as a bereft Wembley emptied, this one stung.”