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.

Join our writers for the latest news and build-up as domestic football returns after the international break. “Hello Luke,” emails krishnamoorthy. “Let me confirm to you that I have not been contacted by the FA either.