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Davey is referencing a post-match celebration in which Rodri and Alvaro Morata were banned for one game by Uefa after they chanted "Gibraltar is Spanish" during their side's Euro 2024 victory celebrations.

Downing Street says any potential action against Argentina players for unveiling a banner in support of their country’s claims to the Falkland Islands is "a matter for Fifa", but echoes the view of Business Secretary Peter Kyle that Fifa should investigate.

"The World Cup might not be ours, but the Falkland Islands definitely are," the prime minister's official spokesperson says.

Asked who Starmer would be supporting in the final, she says: "The PM wishes both teams well for the final, especially Spain."

After their victory in Atlanta, Argentina's players celebrated with a banner in support of their country's claims to the Falkland Islands.

When asked about the incident on BBC Breakfast, UK cabinet minister Peter Kyle calls it "entirely inappropriate".

"Politics needs to be separate from football," the business secretary says, adding he expects Fifa to undertake an investigation.

"It was such an egregious violation of the rules of not having political activity as part of the football," he says.

The Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory in the south-west Atlantic Ocean, remain the subject of a sovereignty dispute between Britain and Argentina.

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Former England international Peter Reid says Argentina players holding a banner in support of their country's claims to the Falkland Islands at the end of the game was "beyond the pale".

Argentina face the prospect of disciplinary action after players held a banner reading "Las Malvinas son Argentinas", which translates as "The Falklands are Argentine".

"Football is a great sport… there is no need for that," says Reid, who played in England's 1986 World Cup defeat to Argentina – in which Maradona scored the infamous Hand of God goal.

He tells BBC Breakfast that, following the 1986 match, Argentina players were "singing songs about Malvinas", adding that as a result it "went off in the tunnel" after the match.

"You win and you lose gracefully… and we got a hand ball against us so imagine how we felt."

Argentina midfielder Leandro Paredes on the players posing after the game with a banner that read 'the Falkland Islands are Argentinian': "Sadly, it is a sad part of our history — for everyone involved in that chapter of, I repeat, our history. And it hurts.

"We knew we were playing for them, too. For all the people, for our entire nation. I believe we did it in the best possible way."

Yasmin Malik
BBC Newsbeat

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One of the biggest talking points from last night’s semi-final happened after the final whistle was blown.

Some Argentinian players celebrated their victory with a banner in support of their country's claims to the Falkland Islands. The Argentine Football Association was fined £20,000 in 2014 when players held up a similar banner, and could now face more disciplinary action from Fifa.

Micaela Basilico, an Argentina fan who lives in London, tells BBC Newsbeat she doesn't think Fifa should take action.

She cites an incident after an Egypt game earlier in the tournament when the team's head coach, Hossam Hassan, held a Palestine flag up to fans.

"I understand that maybe politics and football shouldn’t be mixed,” the 28-year-old says, but "when really strong emotions are related to a country that you’re playing against, the rivalry can become a bit more than football".

Asked how she’d feel if Argentina were fined like they were in 2014, she says: "It would make me sad, it would disappoint me."

Dale Johnson
Football issues correspondent

Argentina have form when it comes to holding up banners about the Falklands, or as they call it the Malvinas.

In 2014, Fifa fined the Argentina FA £20,000 after its players displayed a banner in support of their country's claims to the islands.

Before a World Cup warm-up match against Slovenia in La Plata, the whole squad was pictured in front of a banner which read "Las Malvinas son Argentinas", which translates as "The Falklands are Argentine".

The exact same wording was used in Atlanta on Wednesday evening.

Twelve years ago, the Argentina FA was not sanctioned until after the World Cup, and we should expect a similar timeline here.

Fifa now issues disciplinary actions for general breaches of regulations by players or a country's supporters in the weeks after a tournament.

So it would be a surprise if anything happened in the coming days.

Fifa could treat this situation more seriously because it happened during a World Cup, and in a match between the two countries.But there is no prospect of Argentina losing their place in the final.

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BBC Sport

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Argentina face the prospect of disciplinary action from Fifa after their players celebrated the World Cup semi-final win against England with a banner in support of their country's claims to the Falkland Islands.

The defending world champions produced a dramatic late comeback in Atlanta, scoring twice to defeat Thomas Tuchel's side 2-1 and book a showdown with Spain in Sunday's final.

After the final whistle, Argentina players celebrated while holding a banner reading "Las Malvinas son Argentinas", which translates as "The Falklands are Argentine".

The Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory in the south-west Atlantic Ocean, remain the subject of a sovereignty dispute between Britain and Argentina.

The two nations went to war over the group of islands, situated 300 miles off Argentina's east coast, from April to June 1982.

The 74-day conflict led to the deaths of 655 Argentine and 255 British servicemen. Three people from the islands also died.

Meanwhile...

This is how Argentina's progress to a second successive World Cup final was celebrated in the nation's capital.

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Imogen James
Live reporter

England's loss is not just hard for the fans - many businesses will feel the hit from missing out on the final.

Chief executive of venue chain Boxpark Matt Snell says that despite tickets selling out for the final already, they expect to take about £300,000 less on the night than they would if England were playing.

"It would've been an immense occasion for us, for the country," he says, adding that he woke up this morning "feeling very disappointed".

Despite last night's loss, the tournament has been good for business, he says.

The crowd for the Argentina game was positive, with a "fantastic" and "party" atmosphere, he says.

The result was "disappointing", he says, but "there was no trouble, people were very well-natured about it, and sadly being an England fan you get used to it".

Snell tells me he's been really happy to see fans enjoying the competition, and last week BoxPark broke "every single trading record the business has ever had" due to two games taking place in less than seven days.

The crowd was slow to begin with, but after England won in their final round of 32 game, the "hype really got going" and all venues sold out for every game, he says.

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Goals scored by players in the World Cup's third place play-off will count towards a player's goal tally and the race for the Golden Boot.

It means that the likes of Kylian Mbappe, Ousmane Dembele, Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham can still win the Golden Boot at the 2026 tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico, despite France and England exiting in the semi-finals.

Heading into the final two matches of the tournament, the quartet are among the seven players who have scored five or more goals so far.

Mbappe is joint-top for goals with Messi, both on eight each. However, Messi leads the race due to having one more assist than Mbappe at the tournament so far.

Norway's Erling Haaland is next on the list with seven goals, but he will not be able to add to them this weekend after his country's quarter-final exit.

England duo Bellingham and Kane both have six goals each, while France winger Dembele and Spain striker Mikel Oyarzabal have five goals apiece.

A total of seven previous World Cup Golden Boot winners have scored goals in the third-place play-off. Four of those seven required the goals they scored in that match to win the award.

Germany's Thomas Muller (2010), Croatia's Davor Suker (1998), Italy's Salvatore Schillaci (1990) and Leonidas of Brazil (1938) all benefitted from the match, with goals in those games ultimately leading to their Golden Boot awards.

Grzegorz Lato of Poland (1974), Portugal great Eusebio (1966) and France's Just Fontaine (1958) also won the award and scored in the third-place play-off in the same year. However, they would have still won the award regardless of their goals in that match.

Whether they like it or not, England aren't going home just yet.

There's still the bronze final against France to play, which kicks off at 22:00 BST on Saturday night.

Will you be watching?

The fight for third place might not be such a draw - but there remains the chance for at least one England player to take home a trophy.

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With Harry Kane due to be 36-years-old at the next World Cup, there are some doubts over whether he will still be playing.

Bradley Allen, who coached the England captain at the Tottenham Hotspur academy, tells BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that "this was a great chance" for the team.

Allen praises Kane for his "service, dedication, goalscoring record", but says the frustration was obvious in his post-match interview.

"He will be bitterly disappointed," Allen says. "I always thought this was going to be a really difficult tournament to win," he adds.

Is Saturday's bronze match the last we'll see of Harry Kane in an England shirt at the World Cup?

The England skipper will be 36 when the next one comes around but he says Lionel Messi, 39, is someone he can use as inspiration.

England captain Harry Kane gives his analysis on their defeat against Argentina in the 2026 World Cup semi-final at Atlanta Stadium.

Rick Edwards
Presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast

I don't think Harry Kane had a good game.

Harry Kane is always going to drop deep and try and help out defensively.

Harry Kane is not an outlet in that way, he's not the one person you want to have up. Because he's not quick, you want a bit of pace.

You basically want Saka or Rashford or Madueke or Gordon, before he was tired.

You just want some pace. And that's not Harry Kane's game.

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Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live's 606, Peter from London argued that pace is the missing piece in England's team:

"England’s squad lack genuine pace. If you take away the wingers, the rest of the squad, through the back to the midfield especially, there is a distinct lack of pace.

"The lack of pace, in the earlier games, was far too slow to benefit the wingers. It made it difficult for us to break down teams, Ghana was a good example and Panama to an extent. We got through them as the team’s weren’t the strongest.

"As the tournament progressed, I don’t think Tuchel could play the tactics he wanted because of the lack of pace. I think he started to lose faith in the wingers and he lost any idea how to change things and went back to what got us through the other rounds."

In response, former England goalkeeper David James said: "Yesterday wasn’t about pace, it was about ball retention.

"The pace could have made a difference but it was more about our ability to control the game, and in the second half we had no control."