Watching on: Fabio Capello took in plenty of Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine

‘The players’ focus and the effort couldn’t have been better. Maybe it (the quarter-final) was a bridge too far. We ran out of legs a bit in the final part and didn’t keep the ball as well as we should have, but it was a valiant effort to take the game to penalties.’

In common with his predecessors, Hodgson would like to see a winter break introduced into English football to reduce such player fatigue at major tournaments.

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