England vs Ireland live updates: Lee Carsley’s first Nations League match kicks off

I don’t know if any England fan needs reminding that they went down at Euro 2016. After finishing Group B with five points, Roy Hodgson led his team to a last-16 draw against Iceland, led by Hallgrimsson and Lars Lagerback.

A fourth-minute penalty from Wayne Rooney should have put England on course for a comfortable victory, but they were pushed back two minutes later and trailed again twelve minutes later after goals from Ragnar Sigurdsson and Kolbeinn Sigthorsson.

They chased an equaliser but it never came, leading to the most embarrassing defeat in the country’s football history.

A win for Ireland would make Hallgrimsson the second manager to lead two different teams to victories against England, after Bora Milutinovic with Mexico (1985) and the USA (1993).