France coach Laurent Blanc has teased Monday's opponents about contrasting philosophies and how his side would play all the football, and Hodgson bristled when asked by a foreign journalist if England still consider themselves a football power.

‘We started professional football in the 1860s or 1870s and, during the centuries since, I don’t think we could ever be accused of not being a serious — or even a top — football nation,’ said Hodgson.

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