Media are of course disingenuous. For example if an England manager had the courage to leave Rooney behind for this competition they would have been slaughtered for doing so before the tournament started, and again if we'd gone out at this stage (despite in reality Rooney probably having no positive effect on the outcome). Before going there would be headlines of caps and goals won, of leadership and experience (etc etc blah blah), and if/when we go out they would have repeated that, or at least spun it to make it the managers fault. Who in their right mind is going to volunteer for that?
The only hope would be to lose gloriously, which the fans would probably accept, but managers appear to find difficult to achieve. Perhaps a manager who has the balls to make tough decisions about the make up of the squad would be able to motivate the team to do so, but then again, would the FA select such a manager?