Grealish spent three years playing for Ireland’s youth teams before switching his allegiance to the Three Lions as a 21-year-old.

Now with 12 caps under his belt, the in-demand playmaker could not resist taking to Twitter to chime in on the matter, saying: “I said I wanted to take one!!!!

“The gaffer has made so many right decisions through this tournament and he did tonight! But I won’t have people say that I didn’t want to take a peno when I said I will.”

With the dust beginning to settle around England’s final defeat, Grealish must now brush himself off ahead of what could be a busy summer.

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