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Roy Hodgson, know your role and shut your mouth


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Fucking hell.  He should be a national disgrace and joke by now.  How come Graham Taylor got the superimposed root vegetable treatment but Roy gets a free pass?  He is an embarrassment.  

It's beyond belief, The Emperors New Clothes has nothing on Hodgson.

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It's quite an enjoyable car crash of a situation when he's not your manager. The expectation management is something to behold. There are sales directors in major multinational companies who would kill to get away with what Roy does, with their own boards.

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As if it needs mentioning, he sets his sights so low that his measure of success if vastly different to that of any coach worth his salt. That the media don't call him on it is explained away by the absolute drivel that passes for critique and analysis from most of them these days. They wouldn't know shit from shinola.

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He's returning to a 442 after he proved at the World Cup that new formations like 4231 are shit and the methods that have served him well for over 35 years are still the best. He's not having any of these new-fangled buzz formations

 

The new era for England begins with a return to old ways. Roy Hodgson’s team will revert to 4-4-2 when they take on Norway at Wembley on Wednesday night, with the manager making his case that before going forward they have to go back. He would not, he insisted, be tempted to modernise with what he described as a “buzz formation”.

 

Instead, Hodgson is going back to the system he used for England’s games in their World Cup qualifying group, culminating in Gary Lineker describing it memorably as “a step back to the Dark Ages”. Yet Hodgson, in fairness, did try out the 4-2-3-1 look in the World Cup.

 

“We thought we were making great strides,” he said. “We went there to do well, to try to win the tournament, but we were knocked out in the first round. You can’t say too much in defence of the situation.” And now he is going back to what he knows best.

 

Wembley will be only half-full and Hodgson, accepting the state of apathy among the English public, seemed well aware that many in the crowd would consider a return to 4-4-2 as football’s equivalent of a dog returning to its vomit. “I don’t need to get hung up about whether it’s the buzz formation of the moment,” he said matter-of-factly.

 

“When it comes to formations there are trends but those trends mean you risk putting square pegs in round holes. The gameplan is to use the quality of the players in the right way. The important thing is whether it’s a good formation and a good way of playing that will suit the players and get the most out of us.”

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He's returning to a 442 after he proved at the World Cup that new formations like 4231 are shit and the methods that have served him well for over 35 years are still the best. He's not having any of these new-fangled buzz formations

 

 

 

"I", being everyone.  Absolutely fucking everyone.  Except the FA.

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