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

[red g]

so we only just beat a team ranked no.17, no.46 and drew with the 14th best team and then went out were 12th and now 6th.

And we are 'ranked' 4th.

Your right Shaggy, what a pisstake.

At leasst Hodgson Got us to quarters though, no way Capello could have done that

[McDermotX]

The ranking is a bit OTT but England are unbeaten in competitive games since 2010 (well done Capello) so it just reinforces the fact England are a good side - among the cluster of sides below Spain and Germany - and makes an absolute mockery of Hodgson's expectation management bull****, and the fans and press who have swallowed it.

Solid quarter-final side (given the right group).......might have to re-evaluate that in the next Euros given the 24 team expansion.
So that'll be a solid 2nd round team (certainly under Hodgson)

[paulg]

Is Hodgson getting credit for us being a regular QF side, despite the others being under previous managers?

Still what an achievement to get so many highly paid prima donnas on the same plane for a month's jolly, eh?

[Neil Young]

Truly he has a Midas touch.

[peekay]

But Hodgson does not view the situation in bleak terms. "We have to maintain that degree of pragmatism that we have always had in English football," he said. "We also have to retain that fighting spirit and doggedness. We must not start throwing those qualities overboard just so you can come off the field and have someone say you've had more shots at goal.

"I don't want to emulate nations, no. I want England to be England. You can't say we are going to play like Spain because apart from anything, the Spanish grew up in different climatic conditions to us and have always had very different qualities.

"And let's not forget that, for years and years, Spain went to every major tournament and never achieved anything."



Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sp...#ixzz1ziLVy6Vz

[Fredo]

Incredible! He's the same **** isn't he? Even worse now he's found his fit, with all the ****s at the FA backing his grand plan.

[Buzzo]

Truly he has a Midas touch.

Midas touch for the modern generation as his touch turned things into exactly what they were before

[Lee]

But Hodgson does not view the situation in bleak terms. "We have to maintain that degree of pragmatism that we have always had in English football," he said. "We also have to retain that fighting spirit and doggedness. We must not start throwing those qualities overboard just so you can come off the field and have someone say you've had more shots at goal.

"I don't want to emulate nations, no. I want England to be England. You can't say we are going to play like Spain because apart from anything, the Spanish grew up in different climatic conditions to us and have always had very different qualities.

"And let's not forget that, for years and years, Spain went to every major tournament and never achieved anything."



Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sp...#ixzz1ziLVy6Vz

[The_weatherman]

But Hodgson does not view the situation in bleak terms. "We have to maintain that degree of pragmatism that we have always had in English football," he said. "We also have to retain that fighting spirit and doggedness. We must not start throwing those qualities overboard just so you can come off the field and have someone say you've had more shots at goal.

"I don't want to emulate nations, no. I want England to be England. You can't say we are going to play like Spain because apart from anything, the Spanish grew up in different climatic conditions to us and have always had very different qualities.

"And let's not forget that, for years and years, Spain went to every major tournament and never achieved anything."



Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sp...#ixzz1ziLVy6Vz

[Buzzo]

But Hodgson does not view the situation in bleak terms. "We have to maintain that degree of pragmatism that we have always had in English football," he said. "We also have to retain that fighting spirit and doggedness. We must not start throwing those qualities overboard just so you can come off the field and have someone say you've had more shots at goal.

"I don't want to emulate nations, no. I want England to be England. You can't say we are going to play like Spain because apart from anything, the Spanish grew up in different climatic conditions to us and have always had very different qualities.

"And let's not forget that, for years and years, Spain went to every major tournament and never achieved anything."



Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sp...#ixzz1ziLVy6Vz

This is such a non point. He is basically saying, Spain were **** once too. So they were Roy, but they are amazing now. They probably put a plan in place when they were underachieving, followed it through - and look where they are now. England should prepare for a period of mass underachievement passed off ass 'over achievement' by one of the oldest fraudsters in the game.

[colin85]

I'll post a link later that a mate showed me. Someone on a conspiracy forum thinks Roy is a reptile/reptilian/shape shifter.

[Reece]

[Fivex]

The O'Royly Owl

[colin85]

I'll post a link later that a mate showed me. Someone on a conspiracy forum thinks Roy is a reptile/reptilian/shape shifter.

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=214691

[red g]

Midas touch for the modern generation as his touch turned things into exactly what they were before