Gary Neville tries to explain England’s horrific loss to Iceland Euro 2016

England's performance at Euro 2016 was pretty awful.

Roy Hodgson's side laboured through the group stages, before being ignominiously dumped out of the knockout stages by Iceland - a volcanic rock with a smaller population than Leicester. But if you thought the post-mortem into what the hell happened in France had ended with Hodgson's resignation and the Big Sam era in full swing, then you'd be wrong. Gary Neville, Hodgson's assistant at the Euros, has just opened up the whole wound again during his second coming on Monday Night Football, after a rather fruitless stint in management. Some pretty tough questions were put to Neville during a 12-minute slot with his opposite number Jamie Carragher. So it was inevitable that the topic of Iceland would crop up and how the Manchester Unite legend saw England's most dismal tournament exit in a generation. Neville tried his best to explain what it was like for him to see England crash out to Iceland and why the hell it happened.

"When you lose to Iceland in a tournament it felt terrible. Shocking. For the players, for Roy, for Ray (Lewington), for myself and for the people there who had worked hard for two years. "You have to remember for two years we'd been pretty good. There was a lot of optimism. We had beaten Germany, we'd done well against Holland and France. We were actually really confident in the build-up. We got wins. We played well in the first couple of games. We played well against Slovakia if we'd have taken our chances. "I think the last 60 minutes against Iceland - I could never explain that to you. "I've watched it back twice and can't explain what happened on that pitch. I've never seen those players before like that in a game. There had never been any inkling that this was going to come. "If you look at where we were during the previous games, we hadn't won against Slovakia or Russia but we kept playing the right way and kept trying to do the right things. But against Iceland it was completely a performance that we hadn't seen for two years."

https://twitter.com/kevbeirne/status/765312810335236096 This was the biggest failing in a long line of England failings, which Neville said had been going on with the Three Lions long before 2016, 2006 or even 1996 - back into the '70s and '80s. Hodgson's squad rotation came under fire after England's early exit, but Neville defended his decisions and said he wouldn't change a thing.

"Two of the changes I think most people would have said weren't changes. If you remember Vardy and Sturridge came on in the second game and did well, so I think those were changes that were welcome at the time. "So you're talking about four changes.

https://twitter.com/kevbeirne/status/765316202478657536 https://twitter.com/johnrawes/status/765308491481419776 https://twitter.com/Scubie77/status/765308626781278208 https://twitter.com/DoronSalomon/status/765307709629591552 https://twitter.com/GrantSugiura/status/765307580998684672 https://twitter.com/Cjuzzathe2nd/status/765307413893349378 https://twitter.com/princeshwar/status/765307273728126976 https://twitter.com/UpperGwladysBlu/status/765307181084336128 https://twitter.com/cducksbury/status/765307151174733824 https://twitter.com/AndyPlaytonic/status/765307113178537985 It's good to have him back.