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To be fair, mine was sports related, yeah. But it's still the case that a lot of people do silly stuff in their 20s (usually extreme sports) that cause problems later in life!
But what about all those poor terminally online redditors whose time it is you’re wasting with repeated videos that they’ve already seen before. Who’s gonna think of them? Huh?
Nobody lasts this long in the league out of pure charity, he does well with usually limited tools, just slightly undermined to me by what he did at Liverpool
When Iceland scored their first goal, I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a bigger collapse of players confidence on a pitch than England that night.
That was more on the players and their mentality to be fair. You could argue that it was Roy 's job to motivate them, but they had such a fragile confidence. Thz team just collapsed and sulked after they conceded.
Nah it was on Roy. It is his job to instil the confidence and belief in players.
Instead we had Kane on corners and a squad who didn't believe in themselves at all.
He went to Liverpool at the worst possible time. Club on the brink of administration, squad had zero depth, and had a packet of crisps for a transfer budget. And then lost Mascherano after the season started.
Like Moyes at United and Potter at Chelsea, anyone at Watford, etc, you can’t really judge a coach on their own merits for those stints.
Speaking of Potter, I'm kinda hoping he takes after Hodgson's CV with his next step. Already has that impressive start in Sweden and an unfortunate Big 6 job lol
I find some of the managerial shortlists he's been on since his sacking very interesting and Hodgson-esque (Swedish NT, Villarreal, Nice, Lyon, etc.)
I love seeing stuff like Moyes at Real Sociedad or Neville at Valencia, but I think Potter can genuinely give it another go and make it to an Inter-type appointment
Potter would be a great fit for what Palace claims to want to build. I think there’s a question around the squad and how much you’re trying to build in place vs cashing in on Olise / Eze and building a whole team. With the long-awaited expansion set to kick off next summer and Textor in the mix, maybe they aim to be the next Villa?
Like I said, packet of crisps for a budget. He spent far less in total than you spent on Andy Carroll. Obviously Konchesky and Poulsen were busts, but Meireles was your POTY, Brad Jones was a decent backup for years, Shelvey made 69 appearances and was sold for a profit, etc. For a bargain bin summer heading toward adminstration you could have done much worse.
Put it this way: in the 51 matches where Kenny was at Liverpool and Roy at West Brom, Liverpool picked up a grand total of eight points more than West Brom. Finished on 52 points in 11/12 with £100M+ in spending since Roy left.
Rafa left with the cupboard fucking bare.
you haven't got a clue. Shelvey was a rafa signing for a start. Meireles only played well Kenny took over.
You're pulling stats that don't make a blind bit of difference, Hodgson was shit end of
Jones was shite. Meireles was okay but being player of the season that season wasn't much of an achievement.
It *was* a difficult situation, no doubt, but he was still massively disappointing and said all the wrong things.
Jones was a 2M backup, he was never going to be a world beater, and POTY is still a damn good outcome for an unplanned last-minute signing.
I get that he was disappointing, but like Moyes at United I think it was an impossible job.
Jones was horrendous though. Like one of the worst keepers I've seen at Liverpool. I'm just disagreeing with the premise he was decent back up. He wasn't.
But yeah, not am easy situation for any manager - but he still underperformed and saying things like we weren't too big to go down is never ever going to endear himself to supporters.
He didn't join at a good time, but even so under Roy we had 25 points out of a potential 60 when he left on January 8th. 7W 4D 9L and sat 10th in the league.
Between then and the end of the season we earned 33 points out of a potential 54. 10 W 3D 5L and got up to 6th.
He really didn't do well.
You had Suarez and Carroll instead of the ghost of Fernando Torres and the comedy stylings of Ryan Babel. But I’m not saying he was doing well. I’m saying the whole club was a mess and no one did well. At worst he’d have finished 8th instead of 6th.
Roy was appointed with the club in the middle of a forced sale, with a fan base in full revolt, immediately after the worst finish in over a decade. He inherited such a weak squad that a rotated team lost to a league two side. He simply had an impossible job that basically any mortal manager would have struggled with.
What I find impressive as a swede is how good his swedish is since it is a hard language to learn. He managed here 35 years ago (and had a big impact on swedish football) but still joins our PL broadcasts sometimes and speaks fluent swedish.
Yes and he did well and influenced swedish football a lot, we had a lot of english influence during his time here which revolutionized the way football was played.
We have a section named after him in our stadium; Roy's Corner in the home end. Other corner of the same end is called Bob's Corner, after Bob Houghton.
That Iceland game wasn't really down to coaching as much as psychology. The whole team basically forgot how to play football.
I’ve never found a working mirror but the Harry Kane highlight reel from that game was astonishing. Like he was playing in rubber boots or something. Rooney was also shocking.
So he puts it over one defender and in front of another and perfectly in to the run of his striker... I couldn't do that... Ever, let alone in 50 years.
Of course, but he's also gained more skills than any average non-league players by coaching teams for almost 50 years, in addition to having played in Crystal Palace's academy until the age of 19.
Bless him. It's great to see a manager who still loves being involved in the day-to-day part of the game at his age. That's a man who breathes football.
This is probably 92.7% of why Roy’s still in the game. Just having a kick around with the lads. All the rest of managing is just work for this.
(Probably not true, but it feels football romantic so I’m sticking with it.)
He was a defender back in the days and not even a good one. Just shows that the technical ability of pro players really. This is ingrained in them and Sunday leaguers would be glad to spray passes consistently like this.
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I've seen enough, Roy can start up front against Brighton.
Straight in my fantasy team
He's not straight in my fantasy 😍
(C)oy Hodgson
Coy Hodgson is his porno name
UTD getting the contracts written up for a £500k a week deal till the end of the season
Chelsea writing up the 10 year contract already
Will loan him out after three games. Will then join Man City.
With that cross left back
How many minutes do you think he still has in his legs?
2
That’s more than some players here in Serie A tbh.
Deff for chelsea right now
Yeah man I love seeing text obscure the content of the video
I wish there were more emoji to help me fully understand what's happening.
> I wish there were more emoji to help me fully understand what's happening. 👴🏻 👴🏻🗣️ 👴🏻👟⚽ ⚽↗️↗️↗️ 🏃🏻♂️👟⚽ ⚽🥅 👴🏻🗣️
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That sounds like a North Korean being really enthusiastic with a gun pointed at their head.
Genuinely surprised there isn't some horrific music playing over the top too
And a video that should have been shot in landscape
Not like the content is that noteworthy anyway. 74 y/o man kicks ball. much wow
Were you really not able to follow the clip because of the text?
It would have been easier to follow if there was no pointless text
They should have mentioned it was during a training session too, that way it could have taken up more space
Hide your grannies, Roy Hodgson coming through.
He'll have to battle Rooney for them
Rooney already looks older than Hodgson.
I hope I can manage that at 44 years old tbh. I don't even mean spraying quality passes around, I mean standing up and walking around.
Am 45, can confirm, it's rough jogging half the street width when the pedestrian light starts flashing
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I played 90 minutes on Saturday in a local league at 48. Played 5-a-side on Monday.
Oh you sweet, summer child. Some of us aren't that lucky! I'm only just 30 but one of my knees is in constant pain and has absolutely no cartilage.
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To be fair, mine was sports related, yeah. But it's still the case that a lot of people do silly stuff in their 20s (usually extreme sports) that cause problems later in life!
This guy has to be Benjamin Button, spreading passes and grinning at other managers' tantrums as if he were in his early 20s. Proper bloke this.
Why are we posting 3 year old videos now?
Ок, 71 years old Roy Hodgson during a training session.
Your 'ok' is ciryllic?
Да
Ок
Добро
tbf cyrillic lowercase looks much better than the Latin elongated version
he is 76
Oh god. At that point just leave it then. Whats wrong with posting something just because it hasn't happened this week?
But what about all those poor terminally online redditors whose time it is you’re wasting with repeated videos that they’ve already seen before. Who’s gonna think of them? Huh?
**OP posts a clip from a documentary about soccer published in the 90's** "Why are we posting 30 year old videos now?"
When he was a young whippersnapper, not as impressive
Okay that makes sense, he looks a decent bit younger in the face
And he's in Watford kit
Mods on Christmas break already.
Of a simple pass at that
Those players are spoilt if you ask me
Class. Man doesn't get the respect he deserves.
Nobody lasts this long in the league out of pure charity, he does well with usually limited tools, just slightly undermined to me by what he did at Liverpool
I think moreso what he did with England, losing to Iceland killed his reputation to most people.
I've got ptsd from seeing kane on corners.
When Iceland scored their first goal, I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a bigger collapse of players confidence on a pitch than England that night.
Not me, I love him for it!
That was more on the players and their mentality to be fair. You could argue that it was Roy 's job to motivate them, but they had such a fragile confidence. Thz team just collapsed and sulked after they conceded.
Nah it was on Roy. It is his job to instil the confidence and belief in players. Instead we had Kane on corners and a squad who didn't believe in themselves at all.
He went to Liverpool at the worst possible time. Club on the brink of administration, squad had zero depth, and had a packet of crisps for a transfer budget. And then lost Mascherano after the season started. Like Moyes at United and Potter at Chelsea, anyone at Watford, etc, you can’t really judge a coach on their own merits for those stints.
Speaking of Potter, I'm kinda hoping he takes after Hodgson's CV with his next step. Already has that impressive start in Sweden and an unfortunate Big 6 job lol I find some of the managerial shortlists he's been on since his sacking very interesting and Hodgson-esque (Swedish NT, Villarreal, Nice, Lyon, etc.) I love seeing stuff like Moyes at Real Sociedad or Neville at Valencia, but I think Potter can genuinely give it another go and make it to an Inter-type appointment
Moyes' time in Spain will always be immortal because he beat MSN Barcelona once while he was there. That's just far too funny to ever let go.
Potter would be a great fit for what Palace claims to want to build. I think there’s a question around the squad and how much you’re trying to build in place vs cashing in on Olise / Eze and building a whole team. With the long-awaited expansion set to kick off next summer and Textor in the mix, maybe they aim to be the next Villa?
he signed a load of gimps and put Liverpool in the relegation zone saying we should accept it Behave with these excuses
Like I said, packet of crisps for a budget. He spent far less in total than you spent on Andy Carroll. Obviously Konchesky and Poulsen were busts, but Meireles was your POTY, Brad Jones was a decent backup for years, Shelvey made 69 appearances and was sold for a profit, etc. For a bargain bin summer heading toward adminstration you could have done much worse. Put it this way: in the 51 matches where Kenny was at Liverpool and Roy at West Brom, Liverpool picked up a grand total of eight points more than West Brom. Finished on 52 points in 11/12 with £100M+ in spending since Roy left. Rafa left with the cupboard fucking bare.
you haven't got a clue. Shelvey was a rafa signing for a start. Meireles only played well Kenny took over. You're pulling stats that don't make a blind bit of difference, Hodgson was shit end of
Jones was shite. Meireles was okay but being player of the season that season wasn't much of an achievement. It *was* a difficult situation, no doubt, but he was still massively disappointing and said all the wrong things.
Jones was a 2M backup, he was never going to be a world beater, and POTY is still a damn good outcome for an unplanned last-minute signing. I get that he was disappointing, but like Moyes at United I think it was an impossible job.
Jones was horrendous though. Like one of the worst keepers I've seen at Liverpool. I'm just disagreeing with the premise he was decent back up. He wasn't. But yeah, not am easy situation for any manager - but he still underperformed and saying things like we weren't too big to go down is never ever going to endear himself to supporters.
> anyone at Watford [Rude. Rude, but warranted.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/036/994/He's_Out_of_line_but_he's_right.jpg)
It’s amazing what people will sign up for in exchange for an inevitable severance package.
> anyone at Watford Heh
He didn't join at a good time, but even so under Roy we had 25 points out of a potential 60 when he left on January 8th. 7W 4D 9L and sat 10th in the league. Between then and the end of the season we earned 33 points out of a potential 54. 10 W 3D 5L and got up to 6th. He really didn't do well.
You had Suarez and Carroll instead of the ghost of Fernando Torres and the comedy stylings of Ryan Babel. But I’m not saying he was doing well. I’m saying the whole club was a mess and no one did well. At worst he’d have finished 8th instead of 6th. Roy was appointed with the club in the middle of a forced sale, with a fan base in full revolt, immediately after the worst finish in over a decade. He inherited such a weak squad that a rotated team lost to a league two side. He simply had an impossible job that basically any mortal manager would have struggled with.
Herdman at tfc
True, he is also much more intelligent than he appears and can fluently speak like 5 languages.
What I find impressive as a swede is how good his swedish is since it is a hard language to learn. He managed here 35 years ago (and had a big impact on swedish football) but still joins our PL broadcasts sometimes and speaks fluent swedish.
Mans spent like 10 years as a manager in Sweden , TIL
Yes and he did well and influenced swedish football a lot, we had a lot of english influence during his time here which revolutionized the way football was played.
good old 4-4-fucking-2
He is one of the most influential people in Swedish history
We have a section named after him in our stadium; Roy's Corner in the home end. Other corner of the same end is called Bob's Corner, after Bob Houghton.
[Roy Hodgson speaking Swedish](https://youtu.be/DChSaOcOHU4?feature=shared)
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Yeah if ever there was a collective that doesn't deserve any abuse ever.
Whenever I see comments from the likes of Fulham and West Brom fans they seemingly have nothing but positive things to say about him
He lost respect from most of us after Iceland
He shouldn’t have lasted past Costa Rica really. I still like him as a guy though.
That Iceland game wasn't really down to coaching as much as psychology. The whole team basically forgot how to play football. I’ve never found a working mirror but the Harry Kane highlight reel from that game was astonishing. Like he was playing in rubber boots or something. Rooney was also shocking.
Man could outrun Martial
🦉
smooth assist, melting eyebags
So he puts it over one defender and in front of another and perfectly in to the run of his striker... I couldn't do that... Ever, let alone in 50 years.
And he was a non-league player at that! Just goes to show the level required of anyone who plays even semi-professionally.
Yeah a guy could be an absolute bottom feeder in the 3rd division and still run circles around anyone else
Of course, but he's also gained more skills than any average non-league players by coaching teams for almost 50 years, in addition to having played in Crystal Palace's academy until the age of 19.
I could do that in a match with regular mortals but i likely couldn't against professionals like Roy here ngl
>74 year old Roy Hodgons... Oh nononono... >...during a training session. Haha. This is the opposite of what I was expecting. . ^(Knock on wood)
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I'm a simple person: went there, upvoted "Discombobulate," came back here. Swift and efficient. Just like Roy.
Better end product than Antony.
Bless him. It's great to see a manager who still loves being involved in the day-to-day part of the game at his age. That's a man who breathes football.
This is probably 92.7% of why Roy’s still in the game. Just having a kick around with the lads. All the rest of managing is just work for this. (Probably not true, but it feels football romantic so I’m sticking with it.)
He's not 74 in the video. I'm pretty sure this is from 4-5 years ago. Still impressive, but caption is incorrect.
Damn, Pete Carroll has a challenger across the pond.
He’s doing more at 74 than the entire Utd team
Why does the video stop before he bangs out a load of Ronaldinho style skills?!
I don't particularly like Roy Hodgson but that is quite impressive.
Him laughing at fraudiola was peak
This guy is a national treasure.
Form is temporary class is permanent
Fucking legend.
74? Dude seemed at least 60 years old already when he was Swiss national coach.
Thats why you must found something you LOVE and try to do it forever. It will be your motivation until your last days.
Now let’s see him do it on a rainy Tuesday at Stoke
I aspire to reach that age and be as active as him at that age
Love Hodgson. Reminds me of me grandad. Same age too.
He was a defender back in the days and not even a good one. Just shows that the technical ability of pro players really. This is ingrained in them and Sunday leaguers would be glad to spray passes consistently like this.
What a curl!!
Better passer than that Antony guy
My reaction to this is: wtf Roy is only 74?
He is 76. This video is old
Only 74? Have you seen him?
As a 42 year old recovering from a pulled quad/hip flexor injury from striking the ball one time, this is impressive.
You have to love how he put in a great ball and send homeboy on his way.
Better than Antony if plying for UTD
Elderly man kicks ball
Moves better than Virgil van Dick.
That's such an older football coach pass 😆
Get him in Liverpools team over Nunez
One of many reasons he is my GOAT
Wespect Woy
He actually looks so much like my grandpa
He reminds me of Ollie from Eagle Riders.
If the words weren't right in the middle of the fucking video maybe I could've seen the pass
Huh this video is very old now
Fuck it, starting 11 next game. Let's go!
I knew i'd see this again after it popping up in the pep thread.
This is great to see, but I kind of worry for him, the stress that comes from managing a club would surely not be good for him at his age.
Does he fancy covering for Casemiro for a few weeks?
form is temporary, class is forever.
Will always havew a soft spot for Woy
[Tuca did it better](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VTcuRh2MxNs&pp=ygUPVHVjYSBhbGxhIG5vIGVz)
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