Roy Hodgson stepped down as England manager on Monday night after Iceland inflicted one of the most humiliating defeats in the national team’s 144-year history to eliminate them from the European Championship.
Hodgson, the highest-paid coach at the tournament on £3.5m a year, oversaw a solitary last-minute success over Wales between failing to overcome Russia and Slovakia before succumbing to Iceland. Lars Lagerback’s side, ranked 37 in the world, will play the hosts, France, in Paris in the last eight on Sunday.
“I’m extremely disappointed of course about tonight’s result and, ultimately, our exit from the competition,” said Hodgson, who won only three of 11 games across three major tournaments. “We haven’t progressed as far as I thought we were capable of, and that’s obviously not acceptable. I’m actually proud of the work my coaching staff and I have achieved over our time at the helm of England. The transition from the squad whose average age was 30 to now being the youngest in the tournament is both remarkable and exciting for the future of English football.
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