Pat Nevin has tipped Roy Hodgson to succeed Fabio Capello as England coach.

While Capello heads to South Africa where he will learn the Three Lions' opponents at Friday's World Cup draw in Cape Town, Hodgson is plotting a different continental path for Fulham.

Victory over CSKA Moscow at Craven Cottage tomorrow night would put the Londoners back on track to make the knockout stages of the Europa League.

That would be another notch on Hodgson's CV, which includes two years at Inter Milan in addition to international management with both Switzerland and Finland.

And, when the time comes for Capello to stand down, Nevin feels the 62-year-old should be top of the list of candidates.

“There is a feeling in the wind that Roy should one day be England manager and I would go along with that,” said Nevin.

“It would be a shame if the FA felt there wasn’t an Englishman capable of taking the England team. There are two or three people who are at the latter stages of their careers, which, historically, is when people are best suited to international management.

“Roy Hodgson fits that profile perfectly and he would have to be regarded as a serious contender.”