Hodgson - I dont know why I'm here; smint?

[Bender]

5 Years ago today this 'Good footballing man' was appointed to our club.

Sir Roy

[Daniel 7]

I remember a work colleague changing his desktop wallpaper to Roy proudly holding aloft his Liverpool scarf.

[Alex]

5 Years ago today this 'Good footballing man' was appointed to our club.

[Vermilion]

He is such a plonker!

[Exiled_red]

According to BBC breakfast this morning they are about to start talks about extending his contract as England manager.

[McDermotX]

Brilliant !

Don't ever change, Roy !

Photographers watching Kane's first training session with the senior squad on Tuesday seemed to stumble on Hodgson's possible selection for Friday's European Qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley.

They took shots of an England formation on a scrap of paper in Hodgson's hand, which showed Spurs striker Kane partnered with captain Wayne Rooney.

Andros Townsend, Ross Barkley, Ryan Mason and Theo Walcott were named in a four-man midfield in front of centre backs Phil Jones and Chris Smalling for what was an attacking drill.

But Hodgson was upset at what he saw as "espionage" even though the pictures came from a part of the training session that was open to the media, and he says there should be no assumptions that Kane will start.

"That is dangerous to do that (assume Kane will start)," Hodgson said.

"First of all it is dangerous to spy on those things at a training session. The fact is that piece of paper is a piece of paper we take out to training because we have to select teams.

"I don't think it's right to suggest that in order to avoid this type of espionage I have to remember everything I have thought about but we change people around quite often.

"If that is what people want to read into the espionage that is up to them but I hope they are not going to come and blame me if I don't start with Kane and Rooney and say 'we had it on your piece of paper' because they shouldn't be looking at it in the first place."

[McDermotX]

Finally getting around to reading Roy Keane's book from last year, and love the part about him talking about when he meets the other bosses after a game.

Not doubt it's been mentioned on here before but the bit with Hodgson was especially telling (when Keane was with Sunderland, Hodgson at Fulham) -

(paraphrasing)
'I loved chatting to the other bosses after a game.....not for tactical insight or anything like that, but to see how they carried themselves and get a feel for the atmosphere they like to generate at their clubs.
Met with Roy Hodgson, much like when I met with Steve Cotterill the year before (but nowhere near as funny) sat down, and he just said 'we're ****ed.......we're ****ed'.
I thought to myself, 'that's right.....you are ****ed'
Roy went on and got the Liverpool job before moving onto the England hot-seat.

[Exiled_red]

I give so little of a **** about England, I've only just seen the squad

[Vermilion]

who ?

edit: bet he only got picked because he's a Mason!

[Lee]

Oh dear.

[Shaggy]

[Chazza]

Ryan Mason has been called up

[Leyton388]

He's a bitter owl faced cunt. He's a legendary failure.

[Roboklopp]

****s it gotta do with him. He's like the fat ugly *****r you once shagged when really drunk & down & feel forever ashamed afterwards & wish you could expunge from your history.

Odious turd.

[McDermotX]

Think it was something to do with the LFCTV channel, and it's use of the 'legends' tag etc

I prefer my Roy Hodgson, to be the Roy Hodgson who doesn't get the fancy free seats at Anfield just because he's England manager and is made sit with the peasants before having a strop and sitting on his own outside the hospitality suite, like a 6 year old throwing a tantrum.