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,

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.