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I rarely watch a whole england match - i like the 'idea' of an international team full of the premier league's best english players but i think the national team proves that the premier league's success is down to the foreigners. We have this false impression that because we have the best league in the world then out rplayers must be the best. England games bore me to tears, right up until half time when I usually find something better to watch....

Anyway, this Hodgson appointment is insane. If someone said to me 3 years ago that Roy Hodgson would manage Liverpool then go on to manage England I would assume that he got the national job on the back of something spectacular, possibly bringing the premier league trophy to Anfield for the 1st time? His teams are always boring, they don't really succeed and he generally loses as many games as he wins. Of all the current english managers I can think of, he'd be very low down on my list, on merit. The most glowing compliment that I could give him is that he's been consitently average-poor wherever he has gone. What are the FA thinking?!?!?

The upshot of it is that the FA (the bastion of morality and fair play) think that perhaps Roy was a great manager and didn't succeed at lfc because lfc arent worth a fig and liverpool isn't a good image for football. Seems to be that idea coming through maybe its a defensive sentiment but a manager that however you look at it failed in the big club jobs, is accepted . If not you have to ask on what basis was he selected ? On his WBA form?

Any ideas on whether Roy will make any changes to the expected England line-up? Will his time with LFC have encouraged him to make Gerrard captain or leave him out?
There was a big brouhaha sometime ago when he made a strange substitution whilst managing us and Gerrard was seen to be looking very puzzled/angry and mutterring something along the lines of 'WTF is he doing'....

of course it would but the fa consider footballers as children and bottom of the chain of (bomber) command,
thats why you get planks like trevor brooking hanging around and planks like mclaren and R** Ho****n

oh, the sun. why am i not surprised?

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/7723887/FA-slam-unacceptable-Sun

I don't think its ignorant to pose a question its not like its a weighted question. I want to know. Was it less money or what. Hodgson does well with piddling clubs but less well with big clubs so it would seem to me. The england job is a high pressure unlike anything he will have ever experienced. He seems to me at least to have demonstrated that he can't hand the big league and in a media context England is a big league (albeit small talent)

Grant holt deserves to be in Squad

Perhaps he can call up Poulsen to play for the team...[oops]

am just glad his not with us. i would have liked rednapp to get the job in the hope that spurs down after he leave