Roy's Press conference

[Jas]

Found out that he dated 2 of my parent's friends when in his youth, not much hope of digging out any dirt seeing that it was 40 odd years ago but I'll try

Both of them are lookers btw

Possibly in his Crystal Palace days, before he moved to my local team Gravesend & Northfleet or as it is now known Ebsfleet.

[little dave hedgehog]

he looks like he could have played dr who.

oddly i can't find any info on how he got his first coaching job. he seems to have gone from being a pe teacher to coach at halmstads. all the articles i've seen say nothing about how that happened. can anyone enlighten?

[Mostar]

he looks like he could have played dr who.

oddly i can't find any info on how he got his first coaching job. he seems to have gone from being a pe teacher to coach at halmstads. all the articles i've seen say nothing about how that happened. can anyone enlighten?

How old is that photo?

[little dave hedgehog]

looks like maybe 1979? something around there maybe?

would be great if anyone could find more old photos. and more about his lost years.

[Mostar]

looks like maybe 1979? something around there maybe?

Really? He has not changed much in last 30 + years.. Good for him.

[shankly]

would be great if anyone could find more old photos. and more about his lost years.

WIKIpedia says

Hodgson was born in Croydon and educated at John Ruskin Grammar School. He was a moderately successful youth player with Crystal Palace but was never able to break into the first team. This was followed by several years in non-League football with Tonbridge, Gravesend & Northfleet, Maidstone United, where he also served as assistant manager, and Carshalton Athletic. He briefly worked as a PE teacher from 1972-73 at Alleyn's School in south-west London and later at Hillview High School in Pretoria, South Africa. Managerial career

Early career
Hodgson started his managerial career in 1976 at the Swedish top division side Halmstad. Hodgson spent five years at Halmstads BK, winning the league championship in 1976 and 1979. His success with Halmstad in 1976 is considered as one of the biggest surprises of all time in Swedish football. The year before, Halmstad had struggled against relegation and before the 1976 campaign began, they were almost universally tipped for relegation. Hodgson himself says "my greatest achievement would have to be the water-into-wine job at Halmstads BK."Early in his career, he was dubbed the nicest man in the world.

[Shaggy]

no i haven't mate. you mean on the touchline?

Yep, "fackin" this and "fackin" that.

[red g]

[Craig_H]

Interesting to see that he's always been a looker

[red g]

this is when he used to manage the porn all stars.

[red g]

some of those heads look like they have just been stuck on for comedy calue, specially the one next to the old perv with the glasses

[Craig_H]

this is when he used to manage the porn all stars.

[BrianF80]

he looks like he could have played dr who.

oddly i can't find any info on how he got his first coaching job. he seems to have gone from being a pe teacher to coach at halmstads. all the articles i've seen say nothing about how that happened. can anyone enlighten?

Coaching is not something Hodgson did as an afterthought to a football career. He was a qualified coach by the age of 23 and for the four decades that followed he has been dedicated to his craft.

It started with the coaching guru Allen Wade, who as technical director of the Football Association between 1963 and 83, taught Don Howe, Bobby Robson, Dave Sexton and Dario Gradi how to coach. An ambitious young coach called Bobby Houghton had been one of the star pupils on Wade's coaching course and was made player-manager of Maidstone United in his mid-twenties. He appointed fellow Wade student Hodgson to be his player-coach. It was the inception of an influential relationship.

The pair evangelised Wade's methods and they remain the foundation for the way Hodgson continues to go about what he calls his "job of work". Wade's idea was to treat football teams as an organic whole. The team's 'shape' took precedence over the individual. All coaching should replicate match situations rather than simply repeat drills that had little relevance to what happened on the pitch. To the critics it turned players into robots; to its champions it took the game to a higher level.

After Maidstone, Hodgson had a short spell as a PE teacher at Alleyn's School in Dulwich in London, playing non-league football as he sought to become a full-time coach. His opportunity came when he was 29, appointed the manager of Swedish club Halmstads on Houghton's recommendation.

Houghton had taken over at Malmo in 1974 and won the title in his first two seasons. In his first season with Halmstads, who had struggled to avoid relegation the previous campaign, Hodgson won the league. "On the first day of the season, 20 newspapers said Halmstads would go down," Hodgson said. "It was a water-into-wine job."

Houghton and Hodgson revolutionised Swedish football. "They came over as young men with strong ideas and were immediately very successful," remembers Sven Goran-Eriksson. "At that time Swedish football was using the German model: 3-5-2 with a libero. They came in and changed the system.

[Norbs]

Possibly in his Crystal Palace days, before he moved to my local team Gravesend & Northfleet or as it is now known Ebsfleet.

Ebsfleet eh, the gateway to the East

He's a Croydon lad by birth, we all struggle pronouncing are Rs round this way. Resisted numerous temptations whilst writing that...

[michelmas]

Pictures of Himself Thumbnails only