Roy Hodgson will stay on as England manager despite his side being on the brink of World Cup elimination, Football Association chairman Greg Dyke announced on Friday.

"We are supportive of Roy Hodgson and would like him to stay as manager," Dyke said,in comments reported on the websites of several British newspapers.

"They (England's 2-1 losses to Italy and Uruguay) were narrow defeats, but it is for the football people to decide what went wrong.

"Roy has done a good job and it was always an approach for four years."

England's 2-1 loss to Uruguay in Sao Paulo on Thursday means that they will be eliminated at the group phase if Group D rivals Italy do not beat Costa Rica in Recife on Friday.