With his tie pulled down and his top button undone, Roy Hodgson had the look of a man who had endured a rough night.

But in his final press conference before returning home with an England side chastened by their European Championship defeat by Italy, Hodgson at least acknowledged that a period of radical change now had to follow.

He spoke of a ‘revolution’, of a younger, fresher, more attacking England come the friendlier meeting they will have with Andrea Pirlo and his colleagues in Switzerland in August.

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