Shock: Russia were stunned by Greece in the final group game

'The team suffers for his antics. A coach like Viktor Ponedelnik would kick him you know where and send him back to Arsenal, or wherever he's playing now.
'This is a spoiled kid who can't plow a field.'

The Russian FA's former press spokesman called for current FA president Sergey Fursenko to quit and said Arshavin should be 'permanently deprived of the right to play for the national team'.

Arshavin has returned to Moscow with team-mates but is yet to respond. His usual post-match interview on his official website said simply: 'So far I have nothing to say.'

None of the players would speak to journalists and virtually all snubbed fans as they checked out of the Bristol Hotel on Sunday morning.

Alan Dzagoev was one of the few to be praised, receiving shouts of 'good lad' as he boarded the team bus, but he looked glum on what was his 22nd birthday.

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