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Laravel 5.4 (1/1) MethodNotAllowedHttpException on DELETE method

Before anyone points that is a duplicate I have checked these questions – laravel 5.4 MethodNotAllowedHttpException in RouteCollection.php (line 251), (1/1) MethodNotAllowedHttpException among others.

My problem is that I have done all of the solutions to all of the above posted questions and none have solved my issue.

ProfileController

  <?php

namespace AppHttpControllers;

use AppUser;
use IlluminateHttpRequest;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentModel;
use IlluminateSupportFacadesDB;
use Auth;


class ProfileController extends Controller
{
    //

    public function show($name) {

        $user = User::whereName($name)->first();
        if ($user) {

            // User exists
            return view('profile')->withUser($user);
        } else {
            dd($user);
        }

    }


    public function destroy($id){          


        DB::table('users')->where('id', '=', $id)->delete();
        return redirect()->route('/'); 
        }


}

profile.blade

      <ul class="profile-hero-header-menu">

    <li><a class="button primary" href="#"><i class="fa fa-envelope" aria-hidden="true"></i> Request Changes</a></li>
    <li><a class="button success" href="#"><i class="fa fa-life-ring" aria-hidden="true"></i> Contact Support</a></li>
      <form action="/profile/{id}/delete" method="POST">
       
     <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="DELETE">
    <li><a class="button alert" href="" name="DELETE"><i class="fa fa-trash" aria-hidden="true"></i> Close Account</a></li>
   </form>
  </ul>

web

Route::delete('/profile/{id}/delete', 'ProfileController@destroy')->name('profile.destroy')->middleware('auth');

On user click “Close Account” throws an exception –

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