Martin O'Neil, he knows how to motive players, get them playing as a team, and certainly has a great history of getting average squads of player to play well above their true level.

As far as the bookies are concerned there is only one person Gareth Southgate, I can't see much sucess for England in the near future. The concern is there is no one in contention that looks like they could do a decent job.

Roy Race - back o' the net!

I respectfully disagree. England do have good players, not great but good. The Premier league is partly to blame but there's still a core of exciting talent. The problem for me, is the FA which must think Mike Bassett is a factual documentary rather than a comedy. Actually playing 442 would have probably been good enough to win yesterday. If England had a good coach, again not even great, we'd be regular quarter finalists or possibly better in World Cups and Euros. A coach that is tactically competent and one that will pick on form rather than what happened six months ago. 

I'd be happy with someone with Slaven Billic that can push players and is relevant. The next manager could be any nationality as long as they have some level of respect and can influence the buffet loving blazers. So, inevitably it'll be Southgate or Neville.

The one consistent through England's repeated failings are the FA. But they don't work in isolation - there are so many contributory factors. The Premier League, the Football League, and possibly that too many people earn a living as a professional footballer. The hype, the media, the tabloids. The youth system, coaching, puffed-up local FA reps in their man-made fibre suits, too much analysing, lack of belief in just letting kids play unfettered, deference to those with qualifications, and on and on.....

Whoever gets the job is working with their hands tied.

England have not had bad managers, and yet they fail time and time again.

Give 5 managers who want the job one game each and see how they get on i.e make them audition for the job. 

The heart of the problem is not who runs the England team but who is running the FA. Firstly, FA chief executive officer Martin Glenn should follow Hodgson out the door. Proper football men of the likes of David Dein, former vice-chairman of Arsenal and David Alan Gill, formerly chief executive of Manchester United and a vice-chairman of The Football Association should be charged with revolutionising the English FA from the bottom to the top. I don't know who should manage England right now but I do know that former players such as Alan Shearer and Rio Ferdinand should be allowed to take up roles within the FA advising, coaching and mentoring talented younger players. Current under 21's coach Gareth Southgate should be given everything he needs to improve himself as a coach and the under 21's further and given every opportunity to one day take over the senior squad.

I personally love Martin O'Neill though. He was fantastic at Aston Villa, when he left (due to the frustration of our owner selling our best players) we just went on a constant downhill slide.

I have my FA Level 1 coaching badge...

In reality though, I think Glenn Hoddle should get another go.

The FA need to sort it out, sharpish. Coaching is the issue, so start by subsidising the courses a little: they've got enough money to pay unimpressive ageing managers £3.5m a year but charge enough for the proper, serious courses to rule out any young amateur (The Uefa A license costs nearly £6k here, and less than £500 in Germany). The pool of qualified young coaches has been wilfully, deliberately decreased, and it's impossible to figure out why. Everyone's talking about Iceland's success at the moment, just like everyone talked about the Ajax youth system when they were good, and then Clairefontaine, and then Barcelona, but it does seem that massively increasing the availability of coaching courses (and thus qualified coaches), and decent all-weather training pitches, can only be positive.

As for the identity of the next coach, I've been really impressed by Eddie Howe. He's only 38, but sod it. I also think Garry Monk has long-term potential, but the whole being-sacked-by-Swansea thing rules him out this time.