“It is all very well for the media to shake their heads at that and say we should be stronger and more level-headed in those situations but there is a weight of history to contend with”.
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“I never go into details”. We are absolutely not ruling one out. 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. I was really disappointed and I didn’t see the defeat coming.
He added: “I think you want them to be an inspirational manager who is sophisticated enough to harness all the modern techniques that you can do to build resilience in tournaments and overall success”.
“If it was true they disguise it very well from myself and the coaching staff”, a press conference streamed live via England’s Facebook page heard from Hodgson, who was understood to caused consternation over tactics and varying selection of Liverpool pair Raheem Sterling and Adam Lallana.
“Unfortunately, they are one-off events”. I am still fragile.
“For now, we congratulate Iceland for reaching the quarter final and wish them well against France at the weekend”. “Now we go home as losers in the last 16 and we maintain that wretched record of not winning a knockout game in a tournament”.
“The Football Association is prepared to make Gareth Southgate interim England manager for the start of their World Cup qualifying campaign”, the BBC reported.
Belgium defender and Manchester City skipper Vincent Kompany has described England’s exit from the European Championship at the hands of Iceland as a collective failure that defied rational explanation. “I think my statement last night was sufficient”, he said in an terse address.
Glenn said the FA – and the new manager – would need to learn why England became “brittle” during the latter stages of major tournaments.
“I’m not saying we should have an English manager”, he told the Daily Telegraph.
Asked whether he would consider a caretaker appointment, Glenn said: “Yes, for such an important decision”.
Some fans shouted out the names of their favourite players – Rooney being particularly solicited – but none of the 23-man squad spoke a word as they climbed the steps onto the coach.
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Shearer, who won 63 worldwide caps, said England were “tactically inept”, while Rio Ferdinand, another former England skipper, said the display was “embarrassing”.
