Wayne Rooney: ‘Roy Hodgson came in and said he’s gone and not doing any press – I said he HAD to… that loss was a low moment in my career’

Wayne Rooney has opened up on England’s horrendous Euro 2016 campaign, where the Three Lions were dumped out the competition by minnows Iceland. 

After coming second in their group, below Wales but ahead of Slovakia and Russia, England advanced to the Round of 16 where they were seeded against the nation.

Despite being huge favourites for the game, the Three Lions put on a poor display and were knocked out of the competition, losing 2-1. 

And Rooney, who was speaking on The Overlap, brought to you by Sky Bet, said that the occasion even got to Roy Hodgson, who didn’t want to face the press after the contest: “After the game was so strange, Roy came in [to the dressing room] and basically said he’s gone and that he’s not doing any press. I remember coming over to you [Gary Neville] and saying that he has to do the press, and eventually he did.

“That game was a low moment. The last 20 minutes were so strange, I was a lot deeper in midfield, and I think we showed ourselves as a young team who were very naive. How many times have we said keep moving the ball side-to-side, we’ll pick up second balls and wear them down? But we were committing forwards too quickly, taking shots from stupid angles, and I never felt that we were going to score in the last 20 minutes, you could feel the game going away from you.

“I thought in the games before, we’d played really well – some of the best football we’d played for years with England, then that game was weird, a one-off.