The bitter disappointment at England's dramatic exit from Euro 2004 is reflected on the front, the back and the inside pages.

The Daily Express says "it's the same old sad story", as England go out of a major tournament on penalties for the fourth time in 14 years.

The Daily Telegraph likens it to a recurring nightmare.

The Guardian and the Daily Mirror come up with the same despairing words: "Not Again".

In the depths of despondency, the temptation is always to search for a scapegoat.

And the tabloids look no further than the Swiss referee, Urs Meier, who disallowed an England goal in the dying seconds of normal time.

"Cheated" - says the Sun; "Robbed" - say the Express and the Daily Star.

Paul Hayward - writing in the Telegraph - is worried about the effect on the nation's health of witnessing such melodramas.

Away from the football, the Times reports that Tony Blair is preparing a revolution in secondary education.

The aim, it says, is to free the best state schools from local authority control and to give them the power to borrow money to improve services.

Also on education, the Telegraph, says there was a major breach of security at the examination board, Edexcel.

The paper says a biology A-level paper was being sold on the streets of London on Thursday for a-thousand pounds.

Figures showing the cost to the country of maintaining the Royal Family come under scrutiny in most of the papers.

The Mail raises a disapproving eyebrow at the �325,000 pounds spent by the Duke of York on air travel.

And the Mirror derides suggestions that the Royals cost each citizen just 61 pence a year, that's less than the price of two pints of milk.

You can get a lot of milk, it says, for the �219,000 spent by Prince Charles on 10 trips on the royal train.