Best thing that could happen now for England, is to get a good stuffing from Costa Rica, and for the FA to finally realise that its they that are the problem, not the manager.
Until they realise that the coaching of youth in this country is in need of a complete overhaul, nothing will change, they'll continue to limp from one poor tournament to another, and will never have anything more than a very small core of real natural talent and skill, added to be lots of strength and pace, but lack of skill.
It summed up how bad they are, when desperately trying to save the game against Uruguay they brought on Lambert, no disrespect to the lad, but he's not an international footballer, and he wasn't ever going to provide the answer. If that is the best plan B Hodgson had, then its little wonder he'll be bringing them home early next week.
Its time the FA got a plan together for the long term, and not the short term, and they could use the top English clubs to do that, there is a lot of talent coaching at the top clubs, but the clubs are not encouraged to utilise that for the good of the national side.
As for Hodgson, if the Costa Rican coach can get the tactics right against Italy with their respective players, and Hodgson can't, then its pretty obvious that he's not really up to the job, and the fact he thought it was a good idea to use Rooney as a left winger, then reverse the decision against Uruguay confirms it, he clearly had no idea of a plan B, nor the players to implement it.
