Let's face it - England's worst world cup performance that I can remember and on the day (before) your nation's biggest game (Italy have to beat little Costa Rica) you announce that your manager who has led you to two successful defeats has actually extended his contract ... total disregard for the fans of the English team who deserve better and a total disregard for Costa Rica who were obviously going to come up short against the slick Italian's ... weren't they??

How poor does that decision look now and how poor is the timing of it - you can only move your nation's game forward but what has happened in the last 24 hours has summed up English football up in recent years - the F.A. have acted in defiance of what the man on the street wants.

It's not a new contract. It's the same contract he initially signed.

I think he is moving the team forward.
After the Italy match I recall many being very impressed with England. It felt like a completely different England which took many by surprise. It just didn't feel like the usual England. It was better.

Unfortunately it the was the second match where England seemed to revert to the same old routine and we didn't look as good, apart from one or two spells. Disappointing, but there you go. Hopefully that will be a harsh lesson that we can't go backwards now and have to stay the course.

So we lost in the World Cup. We could moan about it and blame the manager calling for him to get the sack. But has that immediate gut reaction of emotion ever helped us before?

If you want to make radical changes then it isn't going to happen overnight and the team has to go through a period of transition which may be a bumpy ride. He's only been there two years and England are still in the development process.

Apologies I may have jumped the gun - but why would the F.A. announce (the day before an important game) that the manager is going to continue to manage the team into 2016??

Hodgson seems to have solely kept his job based on introducing 3 or 4 promising players into his first team squad - or am I reading this wrong??

It's okay no need to apologise. I imagine the announcement was made because they know that the media would immediately start speculating about it and wanted to nip it in the bud straight away.

I think we've got into the habit of thinking that each time England don't win the World Cup the first thing we should do is sack the manager and replace him with a new one, because we believe that a new manager is the answer. This is perhaps flawed thinking on part of the public and the media.

Our performance against Italy was a one off.
Our performance against Uruguay was how we play all the time.
Slow, predictable, boring.