I reckon Southgate will get the job. It will fulfill the FAs long held dream of promoting from within.
The trouble is, that you do that when you're strong and successful, not when you've just been humiliated by Iceland and the replacement manager's drinking pints of wine and talking of how he can break transfer rulings.
Of course, the FA wants a reliable, safe pair of hands. No public outrages, no shocks. That's why they picked Roy, that's why they ignored him being utterly shit for so many years.
They will do the same again. A squad in need of self belief and unity will have a man with the charisma of a pencil sharperner foisted upon them.
And yet again, it will end in shit.