Topic: Owlez, Owlez, Owlez - The Roy Hodgson Appreciation Thread.

[MrGrumpy]

McClaren took Middlesbrough to a Europa League Final

Schteevie Mac is currently coaching in Tel Aviv. The standard of footie is not that good, but it's got to be better than what Palace play and Tel Aviv is rather nice.

[KissThisGuy]

“If you are in the relegation zone, then you are in a relegation battle,” the Liverpool manager said after Charlie Adam’s penalty and Luke Varney’s clipped finish left his side in the bottom three for the first time in 46 years, despite Sotirios Kyrgiakos’s consolation goal.

“I am not going to think too much about relegation with 31 games left to play and I am absolutely convinced Liverpool will not be in the bottom three at the end of the season. Whether we can fulfil our ambition of finishing towards the top is another matter, but when you saw the way we played in the second half I am incredulous anyone can suggest we will finish in the bottom three.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/8040680/Liverpool-not-too-big-for-relegation-battle-says-Roy-Hodgson-after-Blackpool-loss.html

He's well used to a relegation battle is Roy.

[riismeister]

Roy Hodgson is the Louis Walsh of football management.

[Hazell]

I expect to hear the words 'gentleman', 'organised' and experience' a lot over the next few weeks. Any more?

[Chakan]

I expect to hear the words 'gentleman', 'organised' and experience' a lot over the next few weeks. Any more?

"Safe pair of hands"

[TepidT2O]

I expect to hear the words 'gentleman', 'organised' and experience' a lot over the next few weeks. Any more?

c*nt

[Crosby Nick]

I remember the season after Hodgson, we lost to his West Brom team 1-0 at Anfield. I don't think I've ever hated a result more.

That's when Pepe was firmly in his can't be arsed saving anything mode.

[Crosby Nick]

I expect to hear the words 'gentleman', 'organised' and experience' a lot over the next few weeks. Any more?

A broadsheet manager in a tabloid world.

[Hazell]

"Safe pair of hands"

"Steady the ship"

c*nt

Would be nice if Alan Shearer said that on Football Focus this Saturday.

[Oddball]

Memories.....

I call it a fucking nightmare. Those quotes are just embarrassing. How this fossil still gets paid in any capacity to do with football is beyond me.

[jillcwhomever]

c*nt

No they won't be calling him that. 

[Red Ol]

I'd genuinely almost completely forgotten that Roy was our manager.  Perhaps my way of subconsciously ridding my memory of the absolute horror.

Toss up between Trump and Hodgson as to the most inappropriate appointments in history.

[peterstone]

Hodgson isn't a very nice guy though is he.he is a snidey know nothing fraud.

and he's an apartheid supporting c vnt

[The Gulleysucker]

I expect to hear the words 'gentleman', 'organised' and experience' a lot over the next few weeks. Any more?

'Erudite', 'thoughtful', 'analytical', 'philosophical', 'methodical', 'multi-lingual',  'LMA', 'FA', 'well thought of', 'highly respected', 'estimed', 'experienced', 'long servant to the game', 'unfortunate circumstances outside of his control', 'no blame can be attached', 'deserving of a Knighthood', 'is writing a critique of the works of Brecht in German', 'very modest', 'self critical', 'humility'..

I was joking about those last four but I suppose you never know, some hagiographer will probably attempt to employ them without irony in an article about him.

[peterstone]

Roy Hodgson is the Louis Walsh of football management.

'He looks like a football manager, he sings like a football manager'

[TepidT2O]

'Erudite', 'thoughtful', 'analytical', 'philosophical', 'methodical', 'multi-lingual',  'LMA', 'FA', 'well thought of', 'highly respected', 'estimed', 'experienced', 'long servant to the game', 'unfortunate circumstances outside of his control', 'no blame can be attached', 'deserving of a Knighthood', 'is writing a critique of the works of Brecht in German', 'very modest', 'self critical', 'humility'..

I was joking about those last four but I suppose you never know, some hagiographer will probably attempt to employ them without irony in an article about him.

Well read, learned....

[redtel]

A broadsheet manager in a tabloid world.

Or a broad sheet house manager in his own world.

Underneath the smarm lies a nasty piece of work.

I try to delete his time at LFC from my head.

[Felch Aid]

He's already got a get of jail card cos Fwank lost the first four as manager. What could he do? He accepts no responbility wherever he goes.u

Palace have seemingly not planned that well this year but I do hope the owl's teams get a dry bumming.

Why cant he do one to china?

[The Gulleysucker]

....Why cant he do one to china?

They're not that stupid.

[dalarr]

The man speaks five languages. You should take off your LFC glasses for a while and give him the respect he deserves. You don't survive 40 years in football without possessing an immense talent. He is a well read gentleman, a rarity in this day and age.

[TheMissionary]

Remember a home game (Fulham) being snowed off in December and feeling relief that my weekend wouldn't be ruined!

I was going to go to that game then I thought "why the fuck would I pay to watch Fulham play Fulham"?  and decided not to.

[smicer07]

Prick. Horrible man.

[Filler.]

This one ?

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/VcrG2lvmGtc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/VcrG2lvmGtc</a>
 

Yep.. that's the one What I'm really looking for tho is it as a repeated gif and not a youtube video. Think I'm going to see if I can frame it somehow and put it up on my wall at home. Melissa Reddy managed to find it and tweet it... does anybody know where the original gif lives or is it something one can copy? Can't seem to work out how to do it/find it!

https://twitter.com/MelissaReddy_/status/907670623958310912

[RobbieRedman]

I'm still can't get over them tactics he used vs Iceland

Sturridge a man who does all his best work in the box put out on the touch line and clearly told to stay there so the right back Walker can come inside

Fucks sake

[Rob Dylan]

I expect to hear the words 'gentleman', 'organised' and experience' a lot over the next few weeks. Any more?

'A good fit', that's a classic. Apparently he was 'a good fit' for us, and for England.

[Rob Dylan]

Roy Hodgson is the Louis Walsh of football management.

'You remind me of a young Paul Konchesky...'

[Crosby Nick]

'You remind me of a young Paul Konchesky...'

"I'm afraid it's bad news...you're in my back four!"

[Rob Dylan]

"I'm afraid it's bad news...you're in my back four!"

 

[The Gulleysucker]

http://newsthump.com/2017/09/12/roy-hodgson-sacked-by-crystal-palace-just-hours-before-being-given-managers-job/

 

[Black Bull Nova]

Well read, learned....

Well travelled, despised by many who got to know him better.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

i hope he fucking relegates them and their Ultra Fanatico's

[PIPA23]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHYO3qdFnhg

[me76]

Agree completely with the OP! 

It's just astounding he gets the jobs that he does.  What can he possibly put on his CV that entices clubs or countries to appoint him?  Extraordinary.  THey were the worst of days when he was here.  It's such a blight on our history.

[stevieheighway]

Pissing myself here, from the bbc

131. Posted by bushcraft30 on
12 Sept 2017 19:25
I hope Hodgson is going to go all Mike Bassett on CP. He might also use Zaha in the Christmas pudding formation as the six pence.

Comment number 132. Posted by Bob_Noxious on
12 Sept 2017 19:26
New chant from the Holmesdale end:

'Granddad..Granddad you're ugly'

[Black Bull Nova]

It's just astounding he gets the jobs that he does.  What can he possibly put on his CV that entices clubs or countries to appoint him?  Extraordinary. 

For he is, unexpectantly, a wonderful and generous lover

[Advil]

How will they line up?

                                 Keeper
Paul Konchesky    Sakho          Dann        RB
Zaha          DM         DM         DM            RM






























                           Benteke

[elbow]

Back in those dark, dark days of when he actually managed us, the only thing keeping me sane was the various GIFS, photoshops, etc.

There was one, I think from pre-season when he was giving a team talk to a bemused looking Jay Spearing and others.

Someone had photoshopped the Grampa Simpson "Give me five bees for a quarter" lines on it.

Anyone recall that one?

[TheTeflonJohn]

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/mU_qMiZSMsA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/mU_qMiZSMsA</a>

[Crosby Nick]

Haha had forgotten how good that A Ha one was!

[spen71]

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/mU_qMiZSMsA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/mU_qMiZSMsA</a>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/mU_qMiZSMsA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/mU_qMiZSMsA</a>

Rhay

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/mU_qMiZSMsA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/mU_qMiZSMsA</a>

That is absolute genius ?

What's this about the prick and apartheid?