Euro 2012: Fabio Capello's comments about Wayne Rooney were 'cheap', says England manager Roy Hodgson In the final game [against Italy] he, along with one or two other players, didn't play to the level he can but that's what football is about. If every player was a robot and played at the same level in every game then football would be a very simple game and we wouldn't need coaches. On England's exit from Euro 2012, Hodgson added: "Maybe it [the quarter-final] was a bridge too far. We ran out of legs a bit in the final part and didn't keep the ball as well as we should have done but it was a valiant effort to take the game to penalties. There was a brief period in the first half when we showed what we could do but we couldn't keep that up. Getting to penalties was the best we could do. I don't think we could have done much more. The players" focus couldn't have been better, and the effort couldn't have been better. In the first half that showed. At half-time I didn't see any reason to believe we couldn't win the game. But in the second half and extra-time it was obvious they were in the ascendancy and we were thankful for some magnificent defending to make sure we stayed in the game. There was no surrender. It was a great effort and I feel very proud of what the players did for me in the pitch. But there will always be recriminations if you don't get as far as you'd like, and achieve what you want to.