Roy Hodgson, know your role and shut your mouth

[Faustus]

So, hang on, he's using a joke where the punchline is basically about a man being a monkey's bitch to get across how he wants Smalling to link up with Townsend on the right flank? Why not just say "play it down the flank" or "give it to Townsend" like a fucking sane, sensible person would?

 

The joke is neither racist nor funny. In fact, saying it at half time to your players in a must win game is about as bizarre as the furore surrounding it. Sums Hodgson up really. He's a tit.

 

By the way, has anyone seen Jason Roberts' reaction? Remember him? That fella who would never, ever think about using a serious issue like racism to further a career in the media. He's another fucking tit:

 

Jason Roberts ‏@JasonRoberts30 4h

Hodgson "joke" or "analogy" is the comment of a 66 year old man who probably does not see why a comment like that might be a problem in 2013

 

So..an ill judged comment from another era which should be handled in the correct way, but in the end...in 2013 we have far bigger problems

 

The levels of abuse on my timeline are tame compared to the abuse endured by my loved ones in this Country.. C'mon.. #dobetter

 

 

[Funkasy]

again english media and some figures blowing a none story up, its sick it really is. 

[TheHowieLama]

Shocked, the monkey.

[Anubis]

Can't wait to see how he refers to opponents in Brazil. Let the circus begin.

[Coro]

So, hang on, he's using a joke where the punchline is basically about a man being a monkey's bitch to get across how he wants Smalling to link up with Townsend on the right flank? Why not just say "play it down the flank" or "give it to Townsend" like a fucking sane, sensible person would?

 

The joke is neither racist nor funny. In fact, saying it at half time to your players in a must win game is about as bizarre as the furore surrounding it. Sums Hodgson up really. He's a tit.

 

By the way, has anyone seen Jason Roberts' reaction? Remember him? That fella who would never, ever think about using a serious issue like racism to further a career in the media. He's another fucking tit:

 

Jason Roberts ‏@JasonRoberts30 4h

Hodgson "joke" or "analogy" is the comment of a 66 year old man who probably does not see why a comment like that might be a problem in 2013

 

So..an ill judged comment from another era which should be handled in the correct way, but in the end...in 2013 we have far bigger problems

 

The levels of abuse on my timeline are tame compared to the abuse endured by my loved ones in this Country.. C'mon.. #dobetter

 

I wonder what Roberts and the like think about Hodgson's time playing in apartheid South Africa.

[Gnasher]

Wonder what half time joke roys got lined up if england hit the final?

[FrenchEyeGlass]

I cant stand jason roberts

[Anubis]

I cant stand jason roberts

 

[moof]

Fucking hell, gotta feel a bit sorry for Woy. He's a cunt and everything but what he said was far from racist.

 

Maybe he's racist by association, because he's a former Liverpool manager.

[Bjornebye]

i cant stand jason roberts. 

[ElishaScottBC]

Oh Roy, what's are you talking about space monkeys for?!?!

 

If he had said owls, that would have been genuinely funny and the team would have scored an extra 3 goals against Poland, but he mentioned monkeys... Fuck him and his face massaging ways!

 

[fowler9]

and with all the racism storm people seem to be missing the fact he seems to be basing his entire game plan arund a 22 year old who has spent his career on loan to half the football league

[Gnasher]

Half time song and dance routine by Roy from now on?

[Gnasher]

The moles got to be frank Lampard . Arrys nephew, dropped for the game, Terrys mate and the only one who probably got the joke as he's so intelligent, the press tells us all the time, he's a member of Mencap and everything. Fat twat.

[Teflon Don]

Half time song and dance routine by Roy from now on?

 

As long as it's nothing from the Black And White Minstrel Show....

[Dr Nowt]

We're all laughing at the moment, but with LFC's propensity for shooting ourselves in the foot....

[BCM]

Not a fan of Hodgson by any means. But its a fucking joke that this story got any airtime. Not even remotely racist at all.

 

John Barnes had it right, get the player out who is offended, and ask him why he is a fucking thick cunt.

[A_S]

Who would you believe? The guy that claimed he was using a term quite common in his native country (also that he spoke in his native tongue!) or the guy who described what was said as a 'legitimate space tale'? I know who I'd be laughing my arse off at.

 

And no Roy, the joke was fucking shit and overall downright confusing, given the task at hand! Seriously, when he starts talking about having an onion on his belt, as it was the style of the time, he needs a tap on the shoulder and shuffled to a press conference to announce his immediate retirement from all things football.

[Dr Nowt]

Who would you believe? The guy that claimed he was using a term quite common in his native country (also that he spoke in his native tongue!) or the guy who described what was said as a 'legitimate space tale'? I know who I'd be laughing my arse off at.

 

And no Roy, the joke was fucking shit and overall downright confusing, given the task at hand! Seriously, when he starts talking about having an onion on his belt, as it was the style of the time, he needs a tap on the shoulder and shuffled to a press conference to announce his immediate retirement from all things football.

 

That's the real story isn't it.  Hodgson's love of displaying his own vocabulary and knowledge always had a whiff of The Fox and the Crow about it.  As LFC fans we're only too well aware of how poor he is at fashioning the many words he likes to show off knowing into phrases which have the desired effect, likewise at knowing when to just shut up shop.  He could always be enticed into what he thought was a clever, long-winded response, when something snappy and decisive was needed to kill the question. 

 

He seems a complete anachronism within football in that regard, and all the guff from the media about how positive it would be after Capello's limited English to have this highbrow literature loving, well-spoken English manager was always missing the point.  I'm not too sure the players have a book club on the go with him, or like to pick his brains on Philip Roth's central themes, or indeed the meaning of historical Nasa space jokes.

[fowler9]

That's the real story isn't it.  Hodgson's love of his own vocabulary and knowledge always had a whiff of The Fox and the Crow about it.  As LFC fans we're only too well aware of how poor he is at making the many words he likes to show off knowing into sentences and phrases that have the desired effect, likewise at knowing when to just shut up shop.  He could always be enticed into what he thought was a clever, long-winded response, when something snappy and decisive was needed to kill the question. 

 

He seems a complete anachronism within football in that regard, and all the guff from the media about how positive it would be after Capello's limited English to have this highbrow literature loving, well-spoken English manager was always missing the point.  I'm not too sure the players have a book club on the go with him, or like to pick his brains on Philip Roth's central themes, or indeed the meaning of historical Nasa space jokes.

 

probably how they qualified in fairness, didn't understand a word of the shite he was spouting so went and did their own thing instead

[Pureblood]

Touch of sour grapes here? Roy has his limitations but he has done well to qualify. He probably shouldn't be talking about space monkeys at half time though.

[craigLCF]

That's the real story isn't it.  Hodgson's love of displaying his own vocabulary and knowledge always had a whiff of The Fox and the Crow about it.  As LFC fans we're only too well aware of how poor he is at fashioning the many words he likes to show off knowing into phrases which have the desired effect, likewise at knowing when to just shut up shop.  He could always be enticed into what he thought was a clever, long-winded response, when something snappy and decisive was needed to kill the question. 

 

He seems a complete anachronism within football in that regard, and all the guff from the media about how positive it would be after Capello's limited English to have this highbrow literature loving, well-spoken English manager was always missing the point.  I'm not too sure the players have a book club on the go with him, or like to pick his brains on Philip Roth's central themes, or indeed the meaning of historical Nasa space jokes.

 

I recall he dropped the word monosyllabic into a Match of the Day interview  like it wasn't no thing. A rather unfortunate choice of word for grammar school Roy to select in order to show us all how clever he is. Roy how do you say irony in latin?

[Jairzinho]

I recall he dropped the word monosyllabic into a Match of the Day interview  like it wasn't no thing. A rather unfortunate choice of word for grammar school Roy to select in order to show us all how clever he is. Roy how do you say irony in latin?

 

He just can't fucking help himself.

[Mathewbet1]

He'll probably die of a heart attack before wio anyways.

[Dr Nowt]

Looking through the players in that squad I just have a nagging feeling Raheem is one of the more likely candidates, purely through being 18, immature and seemingly not the brightest star in the sky.

 

Obviously could be anyone in the squad, but some are more unlikely than others, and I find it hard to believe one of the older players would leak it as a grudge or genuinely think he meant it in a racist way, while it's more feasible someone that much younger with less life experience could genuinely have taken it the wrong way and not had the conviction to speak up at the time.

 

Rather like the classic Paediatrician confused with paedophile by News of the World stories, which led to apocryphal tales of being hospitalised and the like.