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Euro 2016 flops England have turned to failed Rugby World Cup coach Stuart Lancaster for advice on how to revive their fortunes on the international stage.

According to a report in The Times, Lancaster has been appointed to a group of experts who will advise the Football Association on how the England set-up can be improved.

The panel is also thought to include Welshman Dave Brailsford, the man responsible for the soaraway success of British Cycling in the last decade.

Lancaster’s involvement, after he presided over England’s disastrous World Cup campaign last autumn that saw them exit at the pool stage, is bound to attract derision by those calling for drastic action after Roy Hodgson’s team were eliminated by Iceland on Tuesday.

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But the FA are undertsood to believe his ideas on coaching and squad culture still hold sway.

Lancaster made a presentation to Hodgson and the FA back in 2012 about how he had changed the culture of the England side, which apparently went down extremely well.

But Lancaster’s methods failed to produce the goods when it mattered and since the appointment of Australian Eddie Jones to succeed him England have won the Six Nations Grand Slam and whitewashed the Wallabies on their own turf this summer.

Meanwhile England’s search for a successor to Hodgson continues with Claudio Ranieri, Jurgen Klinsmann and Laurent Blanc all believed to be interested in the role.