Former England manager Roy Hodgson has admitted that his best was not good enough during his four-year stint in charge of the national team.
Hodgson stepped down from his post just minutes after the final whistle of his side's humiliating 2-1 defeat to Iceland on Monday, a result that saw England dumped out of Euro 2016.
Despite exits in the group stages of the World Cup and the first knockout round this summer, Hodgson believes that England have made progress over his tenure, but accepted that not everyone will see it that way.
"I have tried over four years to do the best job I could do. The results will show it wasn't good enough because the best job you can do is win a tournament. We haven't come close to it. As a result I expect that myself and the team will be criticised," he told reporters.
"But I certainly don't feel that I need to be Uriah Heep-ish about it in any way. I think personally the team has got better. I personally think we have made progress.
"I personally think the team in 2016 is better than the team which reached the quarter-final in 2012, but that's my personal opinion and I am entitled to it and I have to accept if you say it's not true and the team is as bad today as it was then."
The 68-year-old also refused to confirm whether or not the England job will be the last of his 40-year coaching career.
"I don't know yet. It's a bad day to ask me. At the moment football isn't my favourite subject," he added.
England have still never won a European Championships knockout game inside 90 or 120 minutes.
