The Football Association (FA) might struggle to convince top managers to take the England job, chairman Greg Dyke has said.

Former manager Roy Hodgson resigned following the team’s ignominious Euro 2016 exit to Iceland on Monday and a three-man panel of FA staff has begun the job of finding his successor.

England under-21 coach Gareth Southgate has been linked by British media with the job, amongst a list that includes Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, Bournemouth’s Eddie Howe, Hull City’s Steve Bruce and former England manager Glenn Hoddle.

“It’s got to be somebody who really knows English football,” Dyke, whose term ends in July, told British media.

“But there’s loads of them now, more of them than there are English. The harder question is why anybody would want it. They get media pressure that no one else in football gets.”

However, David Bernstein, a former FA chairman, backed Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce to succeed Hodgson.

“I’m not saying we should have an English manager. But, of the English managers, I actually would go for Sam Allardyce,” Bernstein said.

“He’s a very powerful character. I think he’s got the personality, the strength, he’s a good technical manager, he’s very experienced and he’s someone who perhaps could imbue confidence.”

England next play in a 2018 World Cup qualifier away to Slovakia on Sept. 4.

Meanwhile, Southgate, the bookmakers’ favourite to be the new England manager, does not want the job either on a temporary or permanent basis, the BBC reported yesterday.

England’s Under 21 manager had been widely tipped to teke over on a temporary basis while the Football Association conducts a review of England’s failure at Euro 2016 and looks for a permanent successor to Roy Hodgson, who quit on Monday.

But the BBC said the England job “is not what Southgate wants at this stage” either on a permanent or temporary basis.

Southgate, however, remains favourite at 5-1 with bookmakers William Hill.

Former England coach Glenn Hoddle is 11/2 with US coach Juergen Klinsmann at 7/1, coming in from 25/1. Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger is 12/1.

England went out of Euro 2016 in the second round after a 2-1 defeat by Iceland.

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