Roy Hodgson

[Jacob Smith]

Do you know anything about football? Like, at all?

Hodgson’s CV far eclipsed anything Harry Redknapp, the other contender at the time, ever achieved.

Hodgson already had plenty of international experience as a manager before being appointed England manager.

Seven league titles in Sweden, 1 league title in Denmark, two UEFA Europa League runners up medals with Inter Milan and Fulham.

He managed Finland, United Arab Emirates and Switzerland – the latter being his most successful. He led the Swiss national side to the Round of 16 of the 1994 World Cup in the US and followed this up by qualification to Euro ’96 in England. Before Hodgson’s tenure, Switzerland had not qualified for a major international tournament since the 1966 World Cup.

Of course, it would be wrong to compare these jobs to the size and pressure associated with the England job. However, it is clear that Hodgson understands international football and what is needed for success. His qualification record underlines this.

I was already aware he had a rather lengthy & varied CV, but that alone doesn't make him appropriate for the England job!

Like you say in your last paragraph, the magnitude of the England job and the pressure that comes with it is something he's unlikely to have experienced before - maybe at Inter or Liverpool, but nowhere else - but being that his best achievements are winning the Swedish & Danish leagues, I just think we should be looking at better managers.

Also, the World Cup was a fucking shambles and nobody can argue otherwise. I have no idea how he kept his job after that.

Obviously I'd love for us to win the Euros. I think even getting to the semis would be brilliant, but if that happens it will be in spite of the fact that Hodgson is the manager, not because of him.

 

[west didsblue]

I was already aware he had a rather lengthy & varied CV, but that alone doesn't make him appropriate for the England job!

Like you say in your last paragraph, the magnitude of the England job and the pressure that comes with it is something he's unlikely to have experienced before - maybe at Inter or Liverpool, but nowhere else - but being that his best achievements are winning the Swedish & Danish leagues, I just think we should be looking at better managers.

Also, the World Cup was a fucking shambles and nobody can argue otherwise. I have no idea how he kept his job after that.

Obviously I'd love for us to win the Euros. I think even getting to the semis would be brilliant, but if that happens it will be in spite of the fact that Hodgson is the manager, not because of him.

So basically he can't win even if England do.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

The richest Football Association in the world with over £1 billion in assets that pays the current England manager £3 million a year is skint?

I read that they were running low on funds after paying Capello and Sven et al so highly and didnt or couldnt want to spend anywhere near those kind of wages. ? .

 

[Como Cat]

I was already aware he had a rather lengthy & varied CV, but that alone doesn't make him appropriate for the England job!

Like you say in your last paragraph, the magnitude of the England job and the pressure that comes with it is something he's unlikely to have experienced before - maybe at Inter or Liverpool, but nowhere else - but being that his best achievements are winning the Swedish & Danish leagues, I just think we should be looking at better managers.

Also, the World Cup was a fucking shambles and nobody can argue otherwise. I have no idea how he kept his job after that.

Obviously I'd love for us to win the Euros. I think even getting to the semis would be brilliant, but if that happens it will be in spite of the fact that Hodgson is the manager, not because of him.

Was the World Cup a 'fucking shambles'? We lost against Italy but I thought that was the best England performance I've seen at a major tournament for a long time. Losing to Uruguay was not a disgrace, they were a pretty decent team. The performances in Germany and South Africa were far far worse, and we did not even qualify in 2008. 2012 we went out limply to Italy. So if the Brazil performance was a shambles, in my opinion, so was every other tournament since 2004. I'm no fan of Hodgson but don't rewrite history.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

The richest Football Association in the world with over £1 billion in assets that pays the current England manager £3 million a year is skint?

Here you go, Daily Telegraph the other day..

The England manager should be English – that is, after all, the point of international football – and the FA has not built a national centre to fly in another expensive overseas signing who wants to live in west London. The £6 million wages that tempted Fabio Capello would not go down well in the new austerity FA with 100 redundancies in the past 12 months.

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[BoyBlue_1985]

Here you go, Daily Telegraph the other day..

The England manager should be English – that is, after all, the point of international football – and the FA has not built a national centre to fly in another expensive overseas signing who wants to live in west London. The £6 million wages that tempted Fabio Capello would not go down well in the new austerity FA with 100 redundancies in the past 12 months.

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Funnily enough it was the telegraph I got my figures from near back end of last year hahaha. Oh well journos what the fuck do they know! If they stopped paying spin doctors and printed executives £2 million a year to go on constant pissed ups could actually invest more into football
Anyone will have a look but they supposed to be the most cash rich organisation in the football world other than stupid places like Qatar and China who just bung a countries gdp at these things

 

[Dubai Blue]

He's not on the £6m a year Capello was earning but he's still comfortably the highest paid manager at the Euros.

 

[Gundogan's Moustache]

5 points out of 9 with Wales , Russia and Slovakia. Fucking Genius

 

[mat]

Gone next month.

 

[Pam]

Useless old git.