As he prepares to audition for the impossible job, the big question for England’s interim manager Lee Carsley is whether he can get the team playing the kind of exciting, attacking football that Gareth Southgate was either unwilling or unable to coach.
There is no quibbling over Southgate’s results across his eight years in charge — he led England to nine knockout wins in four major finals, three more than they managed between 1968 and 2016 — but his critics claimed they did not win well enough.
