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It's meant to be lucky. Sure as hell doesn't feel like it.

England’s Euro 2016 undermined by friction between Roy Hodgson and Gary Neville • England manager’s methods were openly questioned by his own staff • ‘The players got on fine. It was the coaches who fell out,’ the Observer is told Exclusive by Daniel Taylor Published: 22:30 BST Saturday, 02 July 2016 England’s Euro 2016 campaign was undermined by a deterioration in the working relationship between Roy Hodgson and Gary Neville and a series of disagreements among the coaching staff, the Observer can reveal. While the England players bonded well during the tournament, it has emerged there was friction behind the scenes when it came to Hodgson and members of his backroom staff. Although the relevant people all have considerable respect for one another, in the worst moments there was a clear divide about the team’s methods and, in particular, signs of tension between Hodgson and Neville. England showed they never learn, never improve and never bounce back | Paul Wilson Others became involved, with Hodgson’s methods openly being questioned by his own staff. “The players got on fine,” this newspaper has been told. “It was the coaches who fell out.” The Football Association was so concerned about high jinks at the team’s base in Chantilly it has also emerged the £500-a-night Auberge du Jeu de Paume was told to remove its chandeliers before the players arrived or risk them being smashed. The hotel reopened this weekend and staff have revealed they took down their most expensive glass fittings because the FA was worried they might be damaged. While the players were generally supportive of Hodgson and angered by reports that they questioned Raheem Sterling’s selection in the Iceland game, the fact they took it upon themselves to remove Harry Kane from corner-taking duties indicates they were not always happy with the manager’s tactics. Hodgson’s training methods – questioned by Steven Gerrard after the last World Cup – were one source of the disagreements. Neville had a close ally in Dave Watson, the goalkeeping coach. Players have complained of mixed messages and the general sense of confusion is not eased by the revelation that one turned to the dugout during the Iceland defeat and asked where a team-mate was supposed to be playing. The revelations come on the same day the FA’s chief executive, Martin Glenn, described his predecessors as “naive” for paying so much to previous England managers and made it clear the next appointment would be offered a performance-related salary. Hodgson’s annual £3.5m pay meant he had the highest basic salary of all the managers at Euro 2016, though still considerably less than the £6m-a-year packages that were put in place for Fabio Capello and Sven-Goran Eriksson.

"This is an authentically great coach"

Wtf kind b@llocks comment is that? what's your point? You think they're good? You think they're not good? If they are better than England, then how? Explain.

Portugal are nothing special. We're good enough to beat them.

We know from watching Saints these last few seasons that it's so so difficult to break teams down when they sit back with no intent to get forward. Frustrating, but we're likely to be playing a not great team in the next round so all to play for. Btw, the ref was a fascist pussy. Totally gratuitous and pointless comment but I don't give a fck.

And mummy's boy misses it!

Pilgrims to St Mary's is kind of appropriate. Very surprised if it happens.

That firecracker frightened the cr@p out of the poor steward there. He went down like he'd been shot. You wonder about the mentality of these morons. Arguably cost their own team a win there.

Really enjoyed that. I just love the group stages of the euros and World Cup because you get performances like Albania's. Gutted for them but you just knew they would concede eventually. Too early to call France as winners though. Italy still the best performance so far imo.

These Icelandic geysers blow hot and cold.

What a lame interview. A distinct lack of enthusiasm. It's like even Koeman doesn't believe what he's saying and if he doesn't why would anyone else.

g Is this irony?

I read in the Paper this morning that Russia has a suspended 6 point deduction for crowd disturbance during the qualifying rounds. I read later that this was reduced on appeal. Anyone know what the suspended sentence is? If their fans have transgressed in the qualifying rounds I trust they won't get away with a poxy fine. Secondly if Uefa's jurisdiction is restricted to the ground only, and England appeared to be blameless in what occurred in the ground, how can Uefa (threaten to) throw England out? Thirdly, the French government have called for both couturier to be thrown out. Are they blind to the role of their own thugs in the disturbances. Finally, who is responsible for crowd control and security?

Nobody knows Jack Schitt.

Yes really. If we're playing the blame game then blame failure to finish and poor defending. One of our CBs should have picked up theirs in place of Rose. We failed to play in Kane enough. But I prefer to be positive about a good performance. I'm no fan of Hodgson but that was encouraging.

The equaliser was fck all to do with substitutions.

Daylight robbery that was. Good performance by England. The problem was we didn't play in our best finisher nearly enough.

Years of personal injury claims more like. They'll be down the docks quicker than a scally up a drainpipe, sniffing it all in. I think their boat's come in.

Never tire of that one. Almost as good as the Mandaric statue

Good news. Looking forward to Sammy doing it gangnam style again in that funny costume.

It's a just a bloke changing jobs for more money.

Is English not your first language?

Bid for Lukaku with Koeman as a makeweight.