You know we can all judge Roy on England debacle but shall we just ignore what he did at Fulham, taking them to a European final? Shall we ignore how he saved WBA? Shall we ignore his heroics with Switzerland? Shall we ignore his record in Sweden? Shall we ignore how highly thought of he is at one of the biggest club sides in the world?

My only reservation is age. But sorry, his overall record stands up against anyone else we've been linked with. A terrible euros and World Cup definitely stains his reputation. But the way some people are behaving you'd think we're getting Mullary.

laddo

"People say, live fast, die young. I say live fast, die old. That's me, the non-conformist".
David Brent.

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In his younger days. [Link]

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He's still a passionate man!

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Frank is simply worlds apart in terms of ability as a manager compared to his ability as a player. Obviously talks a good talk but no one can deny he looked shell shocked after Huddersfield. Sounds like there was a clash of egos on the training pitch and he was naive to think he was ever going to come out of that well. We've a squad that should comfortably avoid relegation with a half competent manager at the helm i.e. someone like Roy.

Can we just stop calling Roy, " Woy ". We kinda grew out of calling Sam " Big Fat Sam" to just Big Sam when he started winning.

It's not like FDB was WDB.

This is what Hodgson has said :

“I didn’t realise I had a speech impediment until I came back to England,” he said.

“I spent the whole of my life working abroad with no one mentioning it, and as soon as I came back to England I suddenly found out I had a speech impediment.”

Asked if he thought the focus on it was cruel, he replied: “I don’t think anything’s cruel. If you’re so sensitive these days that you see cruelty everywhere, then unfortunately every time a comedian comes on the television you’re going to accuse him of cruelty because that’s the type of humour the English people enjoy.

“I suppose I was aware of it, but nothing like to the extent of the first newspaper headline or (England successor Sam) Allardyce’s recent impersonation.”