And that, my friends, is that. It's been a heck of a day, hasn't it? Never fear, though, as Goal.com will be keeping you covered on all the rest of the evening's events and there'll be plenty more on the England saga in the coming days. Football, eh? It never sleeps. Unlike me. I've been George Ankers and you've been brilliant. Thanks for all your masterful Twitter contributions this evening - see you soon!

And I can bring you the full story of those quotes from Lord Triesman I mentioned earlier. The former FA chief has said that England were right to accept Fabio Capello's resignation but that the Italian has taught the country some important lessons for the future.

"What I do think Fabio Capello brought to English football was a continental understanding of the skills and qualities you need alongside English passion to be able to compete with the great continental footballing nations," he told Sky Sports News.

For plenty more from Lord Triesman, click 'read more'.

Some BREAKING NEWS for you: New York Red Bulls boss Hans Backe has said that Thierry Henry has told him that he is "100 per cent" returning from his loan spell at Arsenal on February 17 - which would mean that he will not extend the deal to allow him to play against Tottenham the following week. Click 'read more' and keep checking as that story develops over the next few minutes.

There's a lot of support on Twitter for a dream England partnership of Guus Hiddink and Ray Wilkins. It seems that you folks believe that the pair can recapture that brief success they had while the Russian was caretaker manager of Chelsea, when they won the FA Cup. Well, both are available. Hiddink doesn't seem like a fussy man when it comes to taking difficult jobs. It could be a goer.



I believe that I am now contractually obliged to say "my word".

Zee Yaghi on Twitter: "there are a lot of scotsmen in the EPL and they are doing a great job! Hire a scot"

Impossible to disagree with their records - and, in my view, there may be no finer young manager in the land than Norwich City's Paul Lambert - but all I'm saying is: Good luck getting one to agree to take the job.

David Hedgecock tweets @GoalUK: "got to be Alan Shearer till after #Euro2012 it works when other countries use ex players with no experience."

There have been some examples of former players taking international roles as their first coaching jobs (to mixed success, though) - but it depends on appointing the right former player, surely. Shearer is a man who, as a television pundit, openly mocked a colleague for having even heard of Slovakia captain and Napoli midfielder extraordinaire Marek Hamsik at the 2010 World Cup, among other ridiculous failures of research. As much as I'd like to see the man off my TV screen ... I'd rather appoint a tub of margarine as England manager.