England exit Europe for second time in a week as Roy Hodgson quits

England crashed out of Europe for the second time in 5 days last night - this time in football as their Euro 2016 journey came to an end at the hands of lowly Iceland.

Manager Roy Hodgson quit in disgrace after the game on Monday night in which his team were beaten by a country with a population of just 323,000, around the size of Leicester.

Hodgson spent four years in charge of the English football squad and, rightly or wrongly, his name will be forever associated with last night's embarrassing defeat.

On the other hand, Iceland head for a Euro quarter-final against France having never set foot in a major tournament until they arrived to this one. They thoroughly deserved their victory, as they provided the absolute antithesis of their opponents in every way: passion, organisation and a final product were evident for such a small nation against a team of global "stars".

England started brightly and opened the scoring via a Wayne Rooney penalty following a foul on Raheem Sterling, but that was as good as it got for them as the wheels were to come off fairly sharpish.

A long throw from Arun Gunnarsson, something Hodgson's team had apparrently prepared for, was lobbed into the box, flicked on by their centre-half and then knocked in by Ragnar Sigurdsson as Kyle Walker failed to track his man.

Things got worse for England within the next 15 minutes as the Iceland attack conducted a flowing move which left the England defence running around like headless chickens, and ended up with Sigthorsson striking a low shot through a weak attempt at a save from England keeper Joe Hart.

After that, England were shell-shocked and failed to produce any moments of real quality depsite their star-studded line up, until Manchester United youngster Marcus Rashford provided a spark with 5 minutes to go. At that stage the game was up however, as too many of England's big-game players once again underperformed.

Harry Kane, Wayne Rooney, Raheem Sterling, all guilty of not stepping it up when required and no doubt the inquest will be held in coming days as to where it al went wrong.

As expected, the back pages of Tuesday's daily newspapers were not kind to the team, with words like "embarrassing", "humiliating" and "pathetic" the major buzz words: