Eight potential replacements for Gareth Southgate as England boss, including Emma Hayes and Jose

Poor old Channel 4. Amid all the talk about privatisation they spent what money they had on acquiring the rights for England's Nations League campaign. So while ITV2 have Love Island and a guaranteed summer of sun, sea and desire, C4 have Gareth Southgate's Love Bland, a heady mix of stodgy football, holding midfielders and a desperate desire not to lose.

England's draw with Germany failed to paper over the cracks of their defeat to Hungary and the feeling remains that Southgate simply doesn't know what to do with the plethora of attacking options at his disposal - apart from leaving them on the bench for the majority of the game, obviously.

It got so bad on Tuesday evening that Graham Potter was trending on Twitter, a man who has managed Brighton since 2019 without any attacking options at his disposal.

When we say interesting, we obviously didn't mean Potter. He's only here because he is favourite. You'd imagine he'd want to join a team higher up the Premier League before stepping into international management - or a team with some decent strikers at least.

He did grow a beard a bit like Southgate's though, so maybe he does have designs on the England job. Did it make him more interesting? Probably, yes, which says a lot about him.

Three of the next four managers in the betting have got a team relegated from the Premier League - Eddie Howe, Dean Smith and Sean Dyche - while the next one, Frank Lampard, almost managed it, so the pool of English talent is not exactly overflowing.

However, a modicum of success in December would keep him in place until the Euros and that might open the door for Pep, who surely would have won the Champions League by then.

It would also enable him to keep working with Phil Foden, Raheem