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- Updated: December 2, 2016
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has refused to say if he was offered the England manager’s job before Gareth Southgate’s appointment.
The Frenchman had been a front-runner when Roy Hodgson was sacked following a poor Euro 2016 campaign but it was Sam Allardyce who was eventually appointed.
Allardyce lasted just one game before leaving the post following a Daily Telegraph investigation and Southgate has now been named his successor after four games in charge on a temporary basis.
FA chief executive Martin Glenn said Wenger would “fit the criteria perfectly” when asked about the possibility of the Arsenal boss being appointed.
Instead, the FA opted to hand Southgate the reins on …