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Old 20-06-2014, 20:48
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Drowning his sorrows?
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Old 20-06-2014, 20:49
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Old 20-06-2014, 20:55
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Passed out from the heat probably, him and Chiles were a mess in the pre-tournament game in Florida
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Old 20-06-2014, 20:57
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Old 20-06-2014, 21:04
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Hoddle should never have been sacked by Tony Blair.

But I suppose he was better than his players and had difficulty in relating to lesser beings. He should get another chance in the Premier League.

[I am not a Spurs supporter]
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Old 20-06-2014, 21:08
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Passed out from the heat probably, him and Chiles were a mess in the pre-tournament game in Florida
He might have passed out due to his ridiculously tight trousers.
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Old 20-06-2014, 21:09
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Hoddle has spoken a lot of sense in this World Cup, far more than Roy Hodgson who should be sacked.
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Old 20-06-2014, 21:13
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Hoddle has spoken a lot of sense in this World Cup, far more than Roy Hodgson who should be sacked.
Hoddle's first choice CM duo was rather sadly Gerrard and Lampard.
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Old 20-06-2014, 21:24
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Hoddle has spoken a lot of sense in this World Cup, far more than Roy Hodgson who should be sacked.
Failed managers turned pundits have excellent hindsight
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Old 20-06-2014, 21:24
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Hoddle's first choice CM duo was rather sadly Gerrard and Lampard.
He said he would have played Gerrard and Barkley in central midfield for the Uruguay game. I'd rather that than Gerrard and Henderson.

I wouldn't object to Hoddle being our next manager to be honest. Who else is there?
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Old 20-06-2014, 21:30
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Preparing himself for the England squad as Player/Manager.
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Old 20-06-2014, 21:39
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Failed managers turned pundits have excellent hindsight
Hoddle had a 60% win record with England
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Old 20-06-2014, 21:41
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Hoddle's first choice CM duo was rather sadly Gerrard and Lampard.
Gerrard and Henderson didn't exactly work out did they? Hodgson seems out of ideas and needs sacked.
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Old 20-06-2014, 21:43
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Failed managers turned pundits have excellent hindsight
Hoddle had a decent record for England and could do more with that squad than Roy. Henry Redknapp could too.
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Old 20-06-2014, 21:46
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Hoddle had a 60% win record with England
I thought he did OK for England. Had it not been for Beckham getting himself sent off against Argentina, we might have actually achieved something in 1998.

If Roy does go, there's absolutely no other realistic English managerial candidate out there. We could do a lot worse than Hoddle. I'd certainly take him over a clown like Redknapp.
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Old 20-06-2014, 21:57
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He speaks a lot of sense in his evening standard column tonight
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Old 20-06-2014, 21:59
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People seem to rate Hoddle nowadays but I don't remember him being particularly popular back in 98/99. I don't think many of the England players liked him very much either.
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Old 20-06-2014, 21:59
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Old 20-06-2014, 22:08
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People seem to rate Hoddle nowadays but I don't remember him being particularly popular back in 98/99. I don't think many of the England players liked him very much either.
Things were decent enough for the first two years of his tenure, but it really started to fall apart in the Euro 2000 qualifiers. Had England been topping their qualification group when Hoddle made those remarks about disabled people, I'm sure the FA would have just forced him to make a grovelling apology and donate a month or two's worth of wages to disability charities. But we were (if memory serves) fourth in our group, there were reports of major arguments between Hoddle and the senior players, and Hoddle's main allies at the FA had just been forced out due to a separate scandal, so it gave the new guys the excuse they needed to push him out and bring in Keegan.
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Old 20-06-2014, 22:17
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He was fairly decent as England manager tbh from what I recall but he cooked his goose with all the bull he spouted about disabilities. That was used as an excuse to get rid of him I think just as BigDave says.
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Old 20-06-2014, 22:29
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Things were decent enough for the first two years of his tenure, but it really started to fall apart in the Euro 2000 qualifiers. Had England been topping their qualification group when Hoddle made those remarks about disabled people, I'm sure the FA would have just forced him to make a grovelling apology and donate a month or two's worth of wages to disability charities. But we were (if memory serves) fourth in our group, there were reports of major arguments between Hoddle and the senior players, and Hoddle's main allies at the FA had just been forced out due to a separate scandal, so it gave the new guys the excuse they needed to push him out and bring in Keegan.
This is true.

I think if Hoddle took the job again it would be under very different circumstances. Right now, the "senior" players are on their way out of the squad and there are a lot of younger novice players coming in, so we shouldn't see a repeat of that.

He did a decent enough job last time around and I would be happy enough to give him another go of it, as long as he kept his religious crap to himself.
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Old 20-06-2014, 22:45
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He did a decent enough job last time around and I would be happy enough to give him another go of it, as long as he kept his religious crap to himself.
I bet he has chucked all that rubbish in by now. That wasn't religion or faith it was potty mouth syndrome just like Prince Philip
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Old 20-06-2014, 22:51
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Hoddle had a 60% win record with England
And statistically, Capello is England's most successful manager with a near 67% win record
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Old 20-06-2014, 22:58
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And statistically, Capello is England's most successful manager with a near 67% win record
Alternatively, if you're just looking at results from major tournaments (and discounting the two managers who failed to even get England to a World Cup or European Championship), Capello is actually the third least successful England manager, with Graham Taylor being the worst, and Kevin Keegan the second-worst. Good record in both qualifying tournaments he took charge of, but did terribly in the 2010 World Cup, and jumped ship before Euro 2012.

Hoddle's win percentage is high mostly because we had a really good qualifying tournament for the 98 World Cup. We were decent but unexceptional in the tournament itself, and then really started to falter in the Euro 2000 qualifiers he was in charge of.
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Old 20-06-2014, 23:08
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Alternatively, if you're just looking at results from major tournaments (and discounting the two managers who failed to even get England to a World Cup or European Championship), Capello is actually the third least successful England manager, with Graham Taylor being the worst, and Kevin Keegan the second-worst. Good record in both qualifying tournaments he took charge of, but did terribly in the 2010 World Cup, and jumped ship before Euro 2012.

Hoddle's win percentage is high mostly because we had a really good qualifying tournament for the 98 World Cup. We were decent but unexceptional in the tournament itself, and then really started to falter in the Euro 2000 qualifiers he was in charge of.
I think Hoddle lost the plot and the dressing room after the '98 World Cup though. All that religious cobblers and Eileen Drewery made him into something of a laughing stock and he never really recovered from it.

As a tactician and a manager he's actually pretty good and we went into the '98 tournament as one of the dark horses to win it.
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