After bumping into Roy Hodgson in my very own Kings Road a few weeks ago I thought at last England had chosen a Head Coach with s difference, well they have. Only this time although his international credentials are impressive and on leaving him I thought, ‘At last a man with football intelligence, knowledge, integrity and honesty’ but after watching him interviewed after last night’s very ‘hard to watch’ victory over ‘Little Peru’ at Wembley I have seriously have to think exactly what happens to human beings once given the post of England manager or Head Coach, whatever way you look at it.
Glenn Hoddle made his debut against me at Stoke City in 1975 and after taking them to training one day. The two foreigners were disgraceful, one a Swede who could not keep his zipper up and another who could not talk English, and then took the Russian job after a disastrous spell here, both of these ending up earning more money than the others put together.
The FA are truly are a disgraceful bunch of no-hopers like us in Brazil, but at least they are consistent, as they keep taking their share of e the millions pouring in although as Brian Clough said “Knowing nothing about the game” even going to the extent of giving them a blank page in his book with it headed WHAT DIRECTORS KNOW ABOUT FOOTBALL?
Mr. George Raynor, who should have got the job but was told that Stanley Matthews could not be seen chasing back in his own half, by Sir Stanley Rous. Look Raynor up and see just what he told the Football Association….
I met the man with my father at Butlins as a young short-trousered inside forward at Park Walk Primary School in Chelsea. He would have made a great team had he teamed up with Bill Hudson and Tony Waddington, if only….
Is it any wonder that one of only three men worthy of such a job (Tony Waddington, Brian Clough and George Raynor) never got an invitation from Lancaster Gate, which is now Soho Square the place where all the ‘Hookers’ hang out. And no, it was not for the benefit of Wayne?
I like Roy Hodgson, but he should not be trying to pull the wool over the eyes of millions of England supporters. He should simply say, ‘We are going to have rocky road to Rio, but we will give it our best shot” and that is the difference. Do you think that Paddy Power would be giving the punter a hundred-to-one if they could possibly win the Jules Rimet Trophy?
The last time such a thing happened Foinavon won the Grand National and that took a complete catastrophe when half the field bunched up like a bunch of bananas at the fence how named after him. If England won the 2014 World Cup I think they’d name the trophy after them, if not call it the Roy Hodgson Cup, because he’d be only the second man to win it on his own, the other being Diego Maradona in 1986.
As I said in my last piece, when I do my ‘Evening With Alan Hudson’ after ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ has come and gone my the first question I’ll have to answer will be “Where did it all go Wrong?”
My answer will be, ‘The same as usual, but what gets me is that every four years the media hype our players up like in the Peru match.
Adrian Chiles like the England managers has taken over from the likes of Jimmy Hill – no relation to Benny – and talks the biggest load of nonsense. He got the sack from Breakfast TV and got the top job and gives his views to millions of viewers, it simply should not be allowed.
No wonder we go down the pub to watch it…
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