Blimey, four years since he was appointed and still people think it's amusing to mis-spell his name.
Yep, speech impediment is apparently fair game... But if he was 25 stone and eating himself to death, I'd probably be slaughtered for calling him a fat c*nt
Still say he did little wrong......it was the players who BADLY let him, themselves and us fans down.
Mainly agree, apart from the Kane taking corners thing. Epitomised by the moment during one match in the finals when said Kane was closing on goal in the inside right position, Kyle Walker made his trademark overlap run, where Harry picks him out week in week out at Spurs.
Instead of doing that, Harry decides to try and kick the ball into the area through the (suddenly invisible to HK, apparently) defender right in front of him. Danger averted.
He could have made some different decisions in the last euros and he did the right thing after a national humiliation against Iceland but prior to that we had been playing well. One of our abundantly obvious failings at international level is an inability to retain possession which he finally managed to get us doing while also looking sharp on the break.
I don't know if it was a failing òf him or the players why we didn't have any imagination when sides let us retain possession and try to break them down and I honestly feel if we had played a side like France or Germany we would have looked the business.
Still say he did little wrong......it was the players who BADLY let him, themselves and us fans down.
Mainly agree, apart from the Kane taking corners thing. Epitomised by the moment during one match in the finals when said Kane was closing on goal in the inside right position, Kyle Walker made his trademark overlap run, where Harry picks him out week in week out at Spurs.
Instead of doing that, Harry decides to try and kick the ball into the area through the (suddenly invisible to HK, apparently) defender right in front of him. Danger averted.
agree with this .. most successful international teams base their play, personnel and tactics around one club .. Bayern Munich/Germany, Barcelona/Spain, Juventus/Italy .. At the end of Hodgson's tenure the main component of his squad was Spurs players .. so why not play the Spurs way, a club that was going through a very successful period ? .. KISS .. keep it simple stupid
Unfortunately, being an international team manager does not give you access to a cheque book that can bring in the players you need. If he could have signed a few players, we would have been a strong side.
He (slightly strangely) built his 433 system around Welbeck playing that left forward role and it did work well at times as seen by the friendly when we beat Germany in the build up to the Euros. Welbs then got injured and he didn't have a solution. He tried 2 or 3 different systems between then and the euros and never settled with any one system.
Was seen at a match at Carrow Road recently, apparently a friend of Delia. Rumour that he was lined up to replace Alex Neil if results did not improve.
Was seen at a match at Carrow Road recently, apparently a friend of Delia. Rumour that he was lined up to replace Alex Neil if results did not improve.
Was seen at a match at Carrow Road recently, apparently a friend of Delia. Rumour that he was lined up to replace Alex Neil if results did not improve.
To a degree I agree with him. Spurs' last four games did upset the apple cart. Alli was suspended and missed three games, Kane was knackered and it did play a part.
However, lets get one thing right here. He was responsible for picking the team and playing a formation that not one of the 11 had played competitively in the PL for a start, let alone at international level. Absolutely ridiculous.
Very interesting interview with him on 'Sportsweek' on Five Live.
Just like his mate Gary Neville, the party line seems to be that we were doing really well, playing some great football and then the Iceland performance came out of nowhere - he literally cannot explain that game.
I like Hodgson as a bloke, but there is definitely a lot of re-writing of history going on with Euro 2016.
My memory is that we were ordinary against an atrocious Russian team, scraped through against the Taffies and then were equally poor against a very limited Slovakia.
We then produced what can only be described as the worst England performance, that I have ever seen against Iceland.
All the while Roy was getting $4Million a year, and was then reluctant to do a presser after the Iceland game, as 'he wasn't the manager anymore!".
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Would like him here, but never going to happen.
Instead of doing that, Harry decides to try and kick the ball into the area through the (suddenly invisible to HK, apparently) defender right in front of him. Danger averted.
I don't know if it was a failing òf him or the players why we didn't have any imagination when sides let us retain possession and try to break them down and I honestly feel if we had played a side like France or Germany we would have looked the business.
I don't bare him a grudge. He did his best
Time has healed my England wounds although they are no doubt going to be reopened in 2018.
Better men then you have tried Roy and experienced the same failure and will continue to do so in the future.
"He's a fantastic manager and I'm glad the FA have stuck with him.
"He's the man who fulfilled my childhood dream, made me England captain, and I'll always thank him for that."
Rumour that he was lined up to replace Alex Neil if results did not improve.
However, lets get one thing right here. He was responsible for picking the team and playing a formation that not one of the 11 had played competitively in the PL for a start, let alone at international level. Absolutely ridiculous.
The Iceland game was a disgrace. The players bottled.
They could of played any formation in that game and should of won. They froze good and proper.
Just like his mate Gary Neville, the party line seems to be that we were doing really well, playing some great football and then the Iceland performance came out of nowhere - he literally cannot explain that game.
I like Hodgson as a bloke, but there is definitely a lot of re-writing of history going on with Euro 2016.
My memory is that we were ordinary against an atrocious Russian team, scraped through against the Taffies and then were equally poor against a very limited Slovakia.
We then produced what can only be described as the worst England performance, that I have ever seen against Iceland.
All the while Roy was getting $4Million a year, and was then reluctant to do a presser after the Iceland game, as 'he wasn't the manager anymore!".