Maidstone boss Jay Saunders agrees that England's Euro 2016 flops are not used to the hard side of football.

Roy Hodgson resigned immediately after the humiliating defeat to Iceland on Monday night yet much of the criticism since then has been directed towards the players who under-performed so badly at yet another major tournament.

Former England defender Jamie Carragher believes the nature of academy football is "creating babies" instead of turning players into men and Saunders can see his point.

"I do agree with that," he said. "I saw the Jamie Carragher thing and I agree a lot with that.

"The whole academy thing, especially at pro clubs, they are very nursed through things and a lot of the young lads haven’t got the experience and aren’t used to the hard side of it."

England won just one of their four games in France, drawing with Russia and Slovakia either side of a 2-1 win against Wales.

Saunders said: "I didn’t expect much more. With the squad he chose, I thought it would end that way.

"It’s a shame because you’re looking at Wales and you’ve got better players you can pick from and when you see them doing well… It’s a tricky one.

"It’s one of them where I didn’t expect a lot more going into the tournament.

"A lot of it’s squad selection. If you’re the manager of a club it all depends on your squad selection.

"I just don’t think we had enough options, players who could beat people. We were too easy to defend against. People say we dominated games but we didn’t have anyone to create anything.

"You can dominate games all you want but it’s the scoreline that counts at the end of it.

"We didn’t have anyone to take those opportunities."