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15/02/2011

Roy Hodgson admits he was "wounded" by events during his time at Liverpool which culminated in him being sacked after only six months in charge.

Hodgson is back in football just 37 days after being shown the exit door at Anfield in charge of West Brom. He prefers to look to the future rather than reflect on his spell with the Reds. But Hodgson is honest enough to concede his pride was hurt although his self belief has not been affected.

"I didn't feel drained but you do feel wounded," he said.

"I have had a very good spell in my career and it's a long time since I have had a very serious knock-back so, when it comes, it wounds you.

"You wouldn't be human if it didn't but it hasn't dented any confidence or belief. But I can't lie and say it didn't hurt me, or I didn't care, because, of course, I care.

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"I care very passionately about my job and I care about football and I have had an awful lot of praise. So, when you get the opposite, it's not something you particularly embrace, but, if you've got half a brain, you accept that as being part of the job or par for the course."

Hodgson admits he feared his days at Liverpool would be numbered after the departure of owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett and feels more wanted by the Baggies.

He said: "The people who wanted me at Liverpool didn't last too long. The people who employed me didn't stay for too long. The new owners found themselves in a difficult situation because we weren't winning enough games and the fans were making it perfectly clear they wanted me gone and somebody else in.

"To be fair to them, they were in a very difficult situation. I can't for one minute suggest I was wanted at Liverpool.

"But hopefully everyone will accept this club made a considerable effort to get me and worked hard to persuade me to come and try to help preserve the status so, of course, I feel much more wanted. But I have been lucky. I felt wanted at Fulham and there aren't that many clubs where I haven't felt wanted."

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Yes but only at clubs where mid table and the odd cup run are acceptable,i was wondering how long he would take to start sticking the knife in...stupid pratt.

ye me also, the amount of games we lost and drew under him shows the pain very well. You will feel wanted at a small club because they have ambitions that you can cope with.

The power of delusion:

a link sent to me by a mate who popped into the WBA forum

http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=550&fid=255&sty=2&act=1&mid=2118390872

All the initial comments were deja vu to me. All the "RH being impressive at interviews", "RH being honest". Sounded exactly like us when he first took over.

But we all know what's to come. The baggies will soon find out. LOL.

Good old Woy - as Woody Allen would say - he's a loser - someone who aims low and misses.

his payoff check will cushion the blow! poor mite!

if he doesnt succeed here, and i mean by keeping them up, then it is safe to say is career will be over as will any of his hopes of managing england. I reckon this was a smart move by roy in an attempt to re-build his reputation again. im sure he can keep them up. he is not a bad manager in fairness to him but he is the sort of manager needs to go to a smaller club and achieve things beyond the overall objectives of those clubs. I hope he can stop WBA being relegated as although i was glad to see the back of him at liverpool, i felt a bit sorry for him as he is a decent manager - just not suited to liverpool. if he keeps them up ngog will be away on loan next season

absolutely MIGHTYREDS they must be suckers liverpool was a high profile failure for him and they didnt learn from our bad experience. Going back to an earlier point by growler about him doing well at fulham. It's true that he is one dimensional. As other people have said he is good at making rubbish players mediochre. I actually think that he has a psychological weakeness/block call it what you will against winning about feeling he or his team actually deserves to be top of anything. Obviously he gets satisfaction from beating teams bigger than his team He is a perpetual underdog and he didnt get what hte liverpool fans expected . He actually wanted hundreds of thousand of fans to lower their expectations to his standard. Rather than the other way round I find him a really bizarre individual frankly But don't wish him any badness unlike the gerbil traitorers i hope he gets housemaid knee!

ah we were mad to let him go!

Hodgson should do fine at a club with expectations as low as his own. There he can hold on for draws and beat worse teams at home, thereby avoiding the drop. But as soon as his club begins to have ambition he will get left behind again. He'll probably keep WBA up if he can instill in them the same defensive stubbornness he has, but I wouldn't expect him to ever manage a side in the top half of a league ever again.