Bookmakers have markets on most of the big questions in football and although Gareth Southgate will hopefully be England manager for a few more years to come that doesn’t stop odds being issued on his successor.
At present there are probably four distinct groups of possible successors and that is reflected in the betting.
Firstly there are the 'inside men' of coaches currently working within the Football Association.
Southgate's route to the England job may have been more by accident by design, Sam Allardyce's reign being cut short after just one game following newspaper allegations against him, but it has been a happy accident for the Football Association given what has followed with a World Cup semi-final place and Nations League success.
It meant that someone already well-versed in what was happening at St George's Park and all levels of the national team set-up was placed at the top of the pyramid and the benefits of that have been clear to see in terms of a smooth pathway between the various teams and no barrier to players making the final move up from under-21 to senior level.
England’s success at age-group level has come under the likes of Paul Simpson and Aidy Boothroyd, none of whom made waves as managers at club level (although Boothroyd was briefly mentioned as a potential future England manager in his early days as Watford boss) but who could potentially be part of a smooth transition to the top job.
Secondly there are those English managers currently working in the Premier League for whom the national team may be tempting if they feel that they are unlikely to get an opportunity at the country's biggest clubs where overseas managers dominate.
Only four English bosses currently patrol Premier League technical areas and age and previous experience in the job rule out 50% of those in Neil Warnock and Roy Hodgson, leaving Eddie Howe and Sean Dyche and indeed Howe is currently the frontrunner in the betting market to be the next Three Lions supremo.
England manager appointments in the past have often come from outside of the biggest clubs in the country, Alf Ramsey and Bobby Robson leaving Ipswich, Graham Taylor moving on from Aston Villa and Steve McClaren exiting Middlesbrough.
If Southgate was to decide after Qatar 2022 that he had done all he could in the role that could fit a timescale when Howe felt similarly about his job at Bournemouth.
Thirdly, could one of the 'golden generation' of England players who struggled to live up to that tag in the first decade of the new millennium return to the national team set-up as manager?
This season has seen both Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard take their first steps into management at relatively high levels of the game, Sol Campbell and Paul Scholes take opportunities lower down and John Terry become assistant manager to new Aston Villa boss Dean Smith.
Certainly the expectation with Gerrard and Lampard is that they will one day return in glory to former clubs Liverpool and Chelsea respectively but the aforementioned dominance of overseas bosses at those clubs may make the England job more attractive than it would have been previously and they both feature strongly in the current betting.
And if it all suddenly went wrong for the national team, another Euro horror show such as befell Roy Hodgson, could all the careful planning be ripped up and a call for an elder statesmen from abroad, but with experience of the English game become louder and louder?
Arsene Wenger and Rafael Benitez also feature quite prominently in the odds.