England interim manager Lee Carsley has said he is “keeping an open mind” on taking the permanent position after stating that the role required a “world-class coach who has won trophies.” 50-year-old Carsley was named England’s interim manager in August after Gareth Southgate stepped down from the role,

Poor Lee Carsley. Whatever responsibilities he volunteered to undertake with the national team, he would not have anticipated a game of cat and mouse with the media. He would have been better prepared having done a season on Strictly Come Dancing,

An image that has clung to Lee Carsley, however cruelly, is of an overpromoted PE master parachuted into an office whose status and symbolism he neither understands nor reveres. In five weeks, he has made his six-game audition to become England’s next long-term manager look less like a chance to be embraced than an ordeal to be endured.

Carsley is determined to leave the Three Lions in ‘a better place’ and conceded he is not in his ‘comfort zone’ after rebounding from defeat to Greece with victory against Finland

Interim manager Lee Carsley anticipates a reaction from his England side against Finland as he reverts to a more familiar formation, with captain Harry Kane set to return from injury.

Lee Carsley remains in interim charge of the England national team for the time being but it is still unclear as to whether he wants the job permanently.The FA are yet to appoint a permanent