Southgate set to be England temporary manager, media say

Svishchev says Russian Federation should start from scratch with a team of young players “who are just starting their careers”.

“Utterly clueless”, said The Times newspaper.

Chief executive Glenn said nationality would not be a factor in the new appointment, but Hodgson would be proud to see an Englishman succeed him so long as they were the best candidate.

“When you get them together, the FA needs to tell them what they want”.

It’s always someone else’s fault when they don’t produce – the coach picked the wrong team, someone played the wrong pass – so when I heard suggestions the senior players were unhappy with Hodgson’s training, I was incensed.

Defender Ragnar Sigurdsson, who had scored Iceland’s first goal and had made an outstanding last ditch tackle to deny Jamie Vardy a potential equalizer in England.

“You can not tell me that the Harry Kane you see in the Premier League isn’t good enough or that Raheem Sterling, Wayne Rooney, Joe Hart, Daniel Sturridge, Jack Wilshere, Chris Smalling and others ‘aren’t good enough'”. Hopefully I can stay somewhat in football but I don’t think I would go into some new job.

So if England wanted to have a seamless transition into the post-Hodgson era, Southgate might be the best bet.

Southgate’s decsion is huge blow for the FA, who on Tuesday seemed convinced he would be happy to take over, with England’s first World Cup qualifier in Slovakia on September 4.

The Three Lions – though they were more like milk-deprived kittens in France – left the tournament in truly ignominious circumstances with a 2-1 loss to Iceland, a country with more volcanoes than professional football clubs, and began another inquest into the state of play in England.

Southgate wants to manage in the Premier League again and fears being tarnished by any poor England performance could wreck his chances.

“Not since a distant World Cup, 66 years ago, have England suffered a humiliation as great as this”.

England’s neighbours in the United Kingdom also enjoyed their discomfort – an online video showed Wales’ players celebrating wildly. Definitely. But one big question remains: why on Earth would the Football Association seek to appoint another mid-table manager?

Are England’s footballers overly pampered-millionaires who lack patriotism?

” I call some of the squad, I don’t believe it applies to the full group, too soft”.

” Asta Helgadottir, a deputy in the Icelandic parliament for the Pirate Party, tweeted: “This was the real Brexit”. If you say to an England player that he is not in the England side any more, it really doesn’t affect him that much.

Inspired by Chelsea-bound coach Antonio Conte, Italy’s triumph ended a 22-year run without a win over Spain.

In the most attractive-looking quarter-final, Italy face Germany in Bordeaux on Saturday. They will all go on holiday and, in two months’ time, what happened in France will be forgotten.

But the list of genuine contenders is short, considering that being the manager of England is usually the highest-paid coaching role in the global game.