Former England manager Roy Hodgson has once again defended some of the decisions he made at Euro2016.
During the UEFA tournament in France, Hodgson was and has since been criticised for putting Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane on corners and making six changes to his starting XI for the clash with Slovakia.
"Nonsense. People should be ashamed of those things," Hodgson told The Big Issue.
"Why shouldn't Harry Kane take corners? If he happens to be the best striker of a ball in the team and gives you the best delivery, why shouldn't he do it?
"I was totally uninterested in those type of comments, which I regard as purely irrelevant and dishonest. No one whose opinion I respect would have said anything like that, otherwise I would have heard about it.
"I believe people who work within the game and inside sport realise what I did and certainly I got all sorts of messages from all sorts of important friends and acquaintances.
"So there was never any doubt I would collapse in any way with self-doubt. If anything, I think the experience makes you stronger."
The Three Lions eventually exited the Euros at the hands of minnows Iceland in the Round of 16, having drawn 1-1 with Russia, beating Wales 2-1 and being held to a 0-0 stalemate by Slovakia in the group stage.
