‘I didn’t see it coming’

CHANTILLY. — England’s now ex-coach Roy Hodgson cut a bewildered figure as he appeared before the Press on Tuesday following his team’s humiliating Euro 2016 soccer finals elimination by Iceland, a defeat he said he hadn’t seen coming.

“My emotions are obvious ones. I am really disappointed. I didn’t see the defeat coming,” said Hodgson of the 2-1 loss in Nice in the last 16.

“Nothing in the first three games here gave me any indication that we would play as poorly as we did.”

Facing reporters at England’s media centre in Chantilly, north of Paris, Hodgson had begun by admitting: “I don’t really know what I’m doing here. I thought my statement last night was sufficient.”

Hodgson (68) resigned minutes after Monday’s game and he said that he did not understand why he had been summoned to appear alongside Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn. — AFP.