England struggled with the pressure against Iceland – Kompany

In quotes reported by The Guardian, Dyke had appeared relieved that he will not be involved in the pursuit of Hodgson’s successor, discussions which will concern FA chief executive Martin Glenn.

England Under-21s manager Gareth Southgate has no interest in succeeding Roy Hodgson, according to reports.

“My emotions are obvious ones”. But football matches are one-off events, and really I’m still recovering.

“He told us after the game, he went round all the players and as a group of players we appreciate what he’s done, he gave a lot of these players their debut and you can’t forget that”. That is what happened.

“As you can understand I’m very fragile today”. It wasn’t a good night for everybody.

England’s round-of-16 exit at Euro 2016 was worse than the quarter-final departure at Italy’s hands four years ago, and even the expanded tournament format couldn’t give the team a route further into the finals. “We go home as losers and we retain that wretched record of losing a tournament in the knockout stages”. I have never run away from anyone.

“What is said in the dressing room should stay in the dressing room”, he added. The players and I feel very sad. “How they played yesterday, going forward with confidence and courage, that was really class”. “They lacked a Plan B and Plan A was hardly inspiring”, wrote Henry Winter in The Times on Tuesday (Wednesday NZ Time).

“In the game against Slovakia we dominated the game from start to finish and all we could be accused of from a critical point of view was that we didn’t take our chances”.

England fans were none too pleased with their side’s collective effort against Iceland that sees them miss out on the Euro 2016 quarterfinals.

“Hindsight does always serve the objective of putting you in the right and if you don’t have it you find yourself very often in the wrong”. He’s still young enough, and I think he’s enthusiastic enough and I heard him call the game the other night [against Iceland] and I think he called the game perfectly. I get it. Iceland are doughty opponents but we didn’t punch our weight. “Iceland were possibly the better team on the night despite us having the best of possession”.

“In response to recent media reports, I’d like to say that (the reports are) completely untrue”, Rooney said in a statement released to Britain’s Press Association.

Former England player Ray Wilkins has said he would like to see Glenn Hoddle land the vacant manager’s job.

“We clearly need an inspirational manager who can harness all of the resources that the English game, the big resources, has got, everything we have now got at St George’s Park, to make us more resilient in tournaments”.