Former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan says Tottenham striker Harry Kane blew England's World Cup hopes.
Jordan has slammed Harry Kane's penalty miss at the World Cup, claiming that the England captain "bottled it", and couldn't handle the "pressure" of the pivotal moment.
Kane had put England level with France early in the second half from the 12-yard spot, but a second attempt to equalise from a penalty sailed far over the crossbar. England lost 2-1 as Les Bleus sealed a semi-final spot.
Jordan said: "Harry Kane missed a penalty and you have to try and evaluate why that would happen. He's a big game player, people miss penalties. My first reaction was, pressure. Pressure got to him on Saturday.
"People around me, they're a little bit less circumspect about what footballers should and shouldn't do. These guys get £300,000 a week, their job is to put the ball in the back of the net. Cometh the hour, cometh the man.
"And I do think that Harry Kane should have buried the ball in the back of the net, and taken the goalkeeper with him!"
When it is proposed that the 29-year-old did not 'bottle' his 84th-minute strike, Jordan retorted: "Oh, I think he did. I think he overthought it. He missed a penalty.
"He took a great penalty first time round, but he's going into the second penalty, he's now aware again that he's facing Hugo Lloris."
The former Crystal Palace chairman felt that there were "opportunities" there for England to succeed, but it was all undone by Kane's one kick.
"In this instance, he'd already taken one penalty. When you've got Harry Kane in that situation, the opportunity was with him,' the 55-year-old said. 'I do think there's an element of he was mentally beaten by the task in front of him.
"We talk about the pressure - the goal will shrink to the size of a pea. This is what the big boys do. In that moment, cometh the hour, cometh the man, as I've said repeatedly. And Harry Kane didn't have the mental capability of overcoming the moment of pressure. It was immense pressure, but that's what he's there for."
