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

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