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World Cup 2014: Roy Hodgson 'will remain England boss'
Roy Hodgson will remain as England manager until 2016, says Football Association chairman Greg Dyke.
Hodgson's side face an early exit from the World Cup after losing their first two matches, and will be eliminated if Italy fail to beat Costa Rica.
Dyke said: "We are supportive of Roy - he came to do a four-year cycle. I already see people asking the question, 'Will he stay?' The answer is yes.
"He came to do a four-year cycle leading up to Euro 2016."
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Shearer wants England to keep Hodgson
Hodgson was appointed shortly before Euro 2012 following Fabio Capello's shock decision to quit.
Dyke acknowledged it was "disappointing" England had lost 2-1 to both Italy and Uruguay, but said there were "some positives".
He added: "There are a lot of young players who got blooded here and got into tournament football."
Former England striker Alan Shearer had earlier told BBC Sport the FA should stand by 66-year-old Hodgson.
He said: "I would give Roy the chance to take England to the 2016 European Championship. He should get the opportunity to finish what he has started."
If England do fail to get out of their group in Brazil, it would be the first time they have been eliminated at this stage of a World Cup finals since 1958.
But Shearer, 43, believes Hodgson has done what was asked of him and does not think there is a better candidate for the job.
"If we do sack him, who would we replace him with? Roy is a good manager and an experienced manager and I don't think anybody else would have done anything differently at this World Cup.
"He has picked young players, which is what everyone wanted him to do, and the fact of the matter is that we have not been good enough.
"That is the issue and a new manager would have the same problems, regardless of who it is."
Shearer believes former Liverpool, West Bromwich Albion and Fulham manager Hodgson should stand by his decision to select the younger players.
Liverpool forwards Daniel Sturridge, 24, and Raheem Sterling, 19, plus 20-year-old Everton midfielder Ross Barkley have all featured prominently in their first senior tournament with the national side.
"We've got to keep on promoting and playing Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Barkley, Luke Shaw, John Stones and Sturridge," said Shearer.
"We have to hope these guys can keep progressing and playing on the biggest stage.
"You can play as many friendlies as you want but the real acid test is the major stage because that is where you can be found out."
Roy Hodgson will remain as England manager until 2016, says Football Association chairman Greg Dyke.
Hodgson's side face an early exit from the World Cup after losing their first two matches, and will be eliminated if Italy fail to beat Costa Rica.
Dyke said: "We are supportive of Roy - he came to do a four-year cycle. I already see people asking the question, 'Will he stay?' The answer is yes.
"He came to do a four-year cycle leading up to Euro 2016."
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Shearer wants England to keep Hodgson
Hodgson was appointed shortly before Euro 2012 following Fabio Capello's shock decision to quit.
Dyke acknowledged it was "disappointing" England had lost 2-1 to both Italy and Uruguay, but said there were "some positives".
He added: "There are a lot of young players who got blooded here and got into tournament football."
Former England striker Alan Shearer had earlier told BBC Sport the FA should stand by 66-year-old Hodgson.
He said: "I would give Roy the chance to take England to the 2016 European Championship. He should get the opportunity to finish what he has started."
If England do fail to get out of their group in Brazil, it would be the first time they have been eliminated at this stage of a World Cup finals since 1958.
But Shearer, 43, believes Hodgson has done what was asked of him and does not think there is a better candidate for the job.
"If we do sack him, who would we replace him with? Roy is a good manager and an experienced manager and I don't think anybody else would have done anything differently at this World Cup.
"He has picked young players, which is what everyone wanted him to do, and the fact of the matter is that we have not been good enough.
"That is the issue and a new manager would have the same problems, regardless of who it is."
Shearer believes former Liverpool, West Bromwich Albion and Fulham manager Hodgson should stand by his decision to select the younger players.
Liverpool forwards Daniel Sturridge, 24, and Raheem Sterling, 19, plus 20-year-old Everton midfielder Ross Barkley have all featured prominently in their first senior tournament with the national side.
"We've got to keep on promoting and playing Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Barkley, Luke Shaw, John Stones and Sturridge," said Shearer.
"We have to hope these guys can keep progressing and playing on the biggest stage.
"You can play as many friendlies as you want but the real acid test is the major stage because that is where you can be found out."
Where do you even start with that shit heap?
I love this old excuse - "If we do sack him, who would we replace him with? Roy is a good manager and an experienced manager and I don't think anybody else would have done anything differently at this World Cup.
Shearer really believes there is no better manager out there to replace Hodgson with? staggering!, even more staggering is he thinks no-one else would have done anything different to Hodgson, you can only really laugh.
I love this old excuse - "If we do sack him, who would we replace him with? Roy is a good manager and an experienced manager and I don't think anybody else would have done anything differently at this World Cup.
Shearer really believes there is no better manager out there to replace Hodgson with? staggering!, even more staggering is he thinks no-one else would have done anything different to Hodgson, you can only really laugh.
FA need to do what we Rodgers - get someone in with a vision and playing philosophy that can inspire people.
We've had a succession of 'managers' who just haven't done that. And Hodgson is probably the antithesis of it.
For me, the manager should be English. Just get 'Arry in and be done with it.
We've had a succession of 'managers' who just haven't done that. And Hodgson is probably the antithesis of it.
For me, the manager should be English. Just get 'Arry in and be done with it.
The FA needs to take the under21 games seriously - send full strength squads to finals. Other countries do that and they then have young players who've experienced doing well or even winning. We promote the best under21s to the senior side and then don't trust them, while the under strength under21 squad has to promote the best under19s, which requires the under strength under19 squad to... And so it goes on.
...and of course he would have waxed lyrical about his early successes with Swedish girls.
Completely agree but, defence apart, we had the young players to do well at this world cup. We were out thought tactically in both games, which we really on balance should have won. If Mourinho for example ( feel dirty just mentioning him ) had been coach I doubt we would have lost either game. Ok it didn't work out with Capello but what we really need is a top class tactically aware coach.
Not surprisingly given his last job, Psycho spoke about this at some length on the radio when Hodgson's squad was announced. He was adamant that Cole should have gone instead of Shaw who, he said, would have been far better off playing a full set of games in Toulon. And he was right IMO.
He's got a column in the Times at the moment, bold as brass he is, explaining where all the world cup managers are going wrong!
Here's how his last one started:
I don't think that it was a particularly recent interview, but I heard it for the first time late last night on TalkSport radio...
Stuart Pearce talking very candidly about both his England teams and the current set up. He said that he didn't feel that either of his sides that made semi-finals (WC or Euros) were 'great' sides, but rather good sides that got 'fortunate' with their draws in each competition - Ireland, Egypt, a declining Holland, Cameroon, Belguim, Scotland, etc...
He also said how he cannot understand how taking somebody like Luke Shaw on a glorified holiday to Brazil to basically watch football is considered a better option for him, and therefore English football of the near future, than him actually playing 4 or 5 matches against top underage players in the youth world tournament. He said that the next manager, whether RH or not (he actually said that it doesn't matter who it is) needs to be given 8 years to re-establish the youth teams from U-17 up as world powers and then grow those respective players into your stars of 4 or 5 years from now, a la the Spanish youth teams of 6 or 7 years back.
Very interesting listen and made a lot of sense...
Stuart Pearce talking very candidly about both his England teams and the current set up. He said that he didn't feel that either of his sides that made semi-finals (WC or Euros) were 'great' sides, but rather good sides that got 'fortunate' with their draws in each competition - Ireland, Egypt, a declining Holland, Cameroon, Belguim, Scotland, etc...
He also said how he cannot understand how taking somebody like Luke Shaw on a glorified holiday to Brazil to basically watch football is considered a better option for him, and therefore English football of the near future, than him actually playing 4 or 5 matches against top underage players in the youth world tournament. He said that the next manager, whether RH or not (he actually said that it doesn't matter who it is) needs to be given 8 years to re-establish the youth teams from U-17 up as world powers and then grow those respective players into your stars of 4 or 5 years from now, a la the Spanish youth teams of 6 or 7 years back.
Very interesting listen and made a lot of sense...
Hey Derek, good to see you.
It was quite a recent interview actually (see three posts above yours 😉) and yes, it made a great deal of sense.
It was quite a recent interview actually (see three posts above yours 😉) and yes, it made a great deal of sense.
Roy Hodgson would be sacked by England if he were foreign – Eriksson
• Eriksson says expectations are too low
• ‘When we reached the quarter-final it wasn’t good enough’
- theguardian.com, Sunday 22 June 2014 15.29 BST
Sven-Goran Eriksson believes Roy Hodgson would have been sacked by the FA by now if he was foreign. Talking to Telegraph Sport, the former England manager said Hodgson’s current squad is as good as the ‘golden generation’ of talent the Swede enjoyed during his 2001-06 reign.
“I know for sure, if that had been me, I would have been sacked at once,” Eriksson said. “If he were foreign, he would be sacked. I’m quite sure about that.
“I don’t know why the expectations are so low today. The expectations in the three tournaments I had the team was the final or semi-final – no other discussions. And when we reached the quarter-final, that was not good enough.
“Today, it seems to be very, very good if you would do this. I don’t think things have changed realistically. England has still a very, very good team. It’s not that the rest of the world is far, far ahead of England. It’s not like that.”
Asked whether the FA was right to stand by Hodgson, Eriksson, who is currently manager of the Chinese club Guangzhou R&F, said: “If they don’t want me back, keep Hodgson. He’s good. I would come back at once, of course. But that will not happen.”
The 66-year-old did question Hodgson’s handling of Wayne Rooney, however, who he backed to take the England captaincy should Steven Gerrard step down. “The best position for Rooney, in my opinion, is second striker. I said many years ago: ‘Don’t kill Rooney – you need him.’ I can still say the same thing – you still need him.”
World Cup 2014: Roy Hodgson to make changes against Costa Rica
England manager Roy Hodgson will make changes to his line-up for the final World Cup game against Costa Rica.
England have already been knocked out while their Group D opponents have secured a place in the knockout stages.
"I'm going to be picking the side with a view to making certain all the players, if possible, that have been with us here get some minutes on the field of play," said Hodgson.
England fielded the same starting XI in the defeats by Italy and Uruguay.
Hodgson added: "If you interpret that as planning for the future I would understand but basically it's not planning the future and it's certainly not sentiment.
"I'm making certain a group of players I personally believe have done everything they possibly could for me and my coaching team to give us some success on the field, coming home far too early and bitterly disappointed, get a chance at least to say 'that I wasn't just there for the ride'."
Only 15 players of Hodgson's 23-man squad have featured in matches in Brazil.
England players train ahead of their final group game against Costa Rica on Tuesday
Hodgson said he hoped his performance as England manager would be judged on his contribution as a whole rather than the two results, which have seen his side eliminated from the competition.
Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has already confirmed Hodgson will remain in charge until 2016.
"I'm very pleased to have that backing," said Hodgson. "Scapegoats are always necessary in times of failure and one understands that after being in football for a long time.
"One would like to think that the work that you do is judged over a long period of time. You work for two years, every day doing a lot of things in terms of your preparation and you hope it doesn't boil down to the fact that a referee didn't blow for a penalty or doesn't.
"You'd like to think that the people who are judging you are judging you on your ability, what you bring to the job, what qualities you have and what you can do for them going forward.
"If it's fortunate the position that I've found myself in, then I'll accept it's fortunate."
How people can't see through Roy and his total bullshit will always be a mystery, just look at it.
That last line is beyond absurd.
England manager Roy Hodgson will make changes to his line-up for the final World Cup game against Costa Rica.
England have already been knocked out while their Group D opponents have secured a place in the knockout stages.
"I'm going to be picking the side with a view to making certain all the players, if possible, that have been with us here get some minutes on the field of play," said Hodgson.
England fielded the same starting XI in the defeats by Italy and Uruguay.
Hodgson added: "If you interpret that as planning for the future I would understand but basically it's not planning the future and it's certainly not sentiment.
"I'm making certain a group of players I personally believe have done everything they possibly could for me and my coaching team to give us some success on the field, coming home far too early and bitterly disappointed, get a chance at least to say 'that I wasn't just there for the ride'."
Only 15 players of Hodgson's 23-man squad have featured in matches in Brazil.
England players train ahead of their final group game against Costa Rica on Tuesday
Hodgson said he hoped his performance as England manager would be judged on his contribution as a whole rather than the two results, which have seen his side eliminated from the competition.
Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has already confirmed Hodgson will remain in charge until 2016.
"I'm very pleased to have that backing," said Hodgson. "Scapegoats are always necessary in times of failure and one understands that after being in football for a long time.
"One would like to think that the work that you do is judged over a long period of time. You work for two years, every day doing a lot of things in terms of your preparation and you hope it doesn't boil down to the fact that a referee didn't blow for a penalty or doesn't.
"You'd like to think that the people who are judging you are judging you on your ability, what you bring to the job, what qualities you have and what you can do for them going forward.
"If it's fortunate the position that I've found myself in, then I'll accept it's fortunate."
How people can't see through Roy and his total bullshit will always be a mystery, just look at it.
That last line is beyond absurd.
Cole would have been a better option than Baines never mind Shaw. The Paul Weller wannabe was taken to the cleaners by the Italians.
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it is fucking amazing how everyone has accepted how useless this team is and are letting Hodgson away with it . It was still a team consisting of players from top premier league teams , they should have been capable of showing alot more . And even if they aren't the best england team ever could they not have used other tactics to maybe "overachieve" ? Teams do it , look at costa rica.
Now i am all for stability and backing a manager but none of the other top nations would accept this performance , the manager would be sacked 30 seconds after the final game is over .It's insane to not review his position .
And is this still down to youth coaching and development ? It's been the excuse for years , have they really done nothing at all to improve it ?
Actually i've no idea why i wrote all the above , i don't give a shite about england .
Now i am all for stability and backing a manager but none of the other top nations would accept this performance , the manager would be sacked 30 seconds after the final game is over .It's insane to not review his position .
And is this still down to youth coaching and development ? It's been the excuse for years , have they really done nothing at all to improve it ?
Actually i've no idea why i wrote all the above , i don't give a shite about england .
I don't understand that at all. They bombed Cole out under the pretence that they were going to give youth a chance, then they play Baines who is 29 and unlikely to play in the next world cup.
Perhaps, but he doesn't seem like a fan of Henderson at all and would likely pair Gerrard with Lampard in the middle. Not all that progressive.
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actually i wonder what that Dr.Peters makes of Hodgson and the team .
'Arry and his big mouth stirs up a little distraction. Interesting to see how Redknapp is going to respond now.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/22/harry-redknapp-roy-hodgson-steven-gerrard-england
Steven Gerrard and Roy Hodgson angry at Harry Redknapp’s England claims
• Ex-Spurs manager says some players didn’t want call-ups
• Gerrard asks Redknapp to name and shame players
Dominic Fifield in Rio de Janeiro
The Guardian, Sunday 22 June 2014 22.30 BST
Steven Gerrard and Roy Hodgson have reacted furiously to assertions from Harry Redknapp that players at Tottenham Hotspur would ask him to withdraw them from senior England duty while he was in charge at White Hart Lane because they did not “need the aggro” of playing for their country.
The England manager and his captain urged Redknapp to identify the players to whom he was referring and “embarrass” them in public as the national side sift through the wreckage of their shortest World Cup campaign in 60 years. Gerrard, who will be rested and replaced as captain by Frank Lampard for Tuesday’s last group game against Costa Rica in Belo Horizonte, has been asked to stay on as skipper by Hodgson going into the qualification campaign for Euro 2016 but intends to take his time before making a decision on his future.
Although the team’s final duties at their Urca training base were conducted in a sombre mood, Gerrard in particular became animated when Redknapp’s comments questioning modern-day players’ commitment to the England setup were raised. The Queens Park Rangers manager, who had been a serious contender to succeed Fabio Capello two years ago before the Football Association chose Hodgson, had recalled incidents over his four-year spell at Spurs.
“I can tell you when I was at Tottenham, when full internationals came around, there were two or three players who did not want to play for England,” he told BBC 5 Live. “They would come to me 10 days before the game and say: ‘Gaffer, get me out of that game, I don’t want to play in that game.’
“That was how it was. I’d say: ‘You’re playing for your country, you should want to play.’ [They would say]: ‘Nah, my girlfriend is having a baby in four weeks, I don’t want to play’, and that is the truth, so it makes you wonder. And I think it’s only going to get worse. You see the stick the England players get and they come home, they’re earning fantastic money at their clubs, they’re all playing in the Champions League. They think: ‘Do we need the aggro?”’
There were 12 England players who worked under Redknapp at Spurs – Peter Crouch, Jermain Defoe, Aaron Lennon, Darren Bent, Scott Parker, David Bentley, Jermaine Jenas, Michael Dawson, Tom Huddlestone, Jonathan Woodgate, Ledley King and Kyle Walker – though the QPR manager’s apparent reluctance to identify those to whom he was referring riled Gerrard.
“I tell you what, I’d be interested to find out who those players are,” he said. “If Harry is making a comment like that, he should name them and embarrass them. Hand on heart, no one in this group wants to go home. No one has said to me they don’t like playing for England or that they don’t want to be here. If [what Redknapp says is] the case, it’s disgusting. For me, if a player doesn’t want to be here, he doesn’t deserve to be at a World Cup.
“But should Harry not name them? ‘They’ didn’t want to play for England. Who? Name them. We need names. Is it Aaron Lennon, Kyle Walker, Andros Townsend? I don’t know who he means. Does he mean five years ago? Or 10 years ago?” Hodgson interjected at this stage to insist it could not have been Defoe. “I’ve spoken to Jermain Defoe and he’s devastated [not to be in Brazil],” said Gerrard. “Harry Redknapp is a fantastic coach and a big character in the game, so for him to make a comment like that’s a big question in this room, but we need names. We need names or we can’t agree or disagree. But it’s not [been the case] here. I can guarantee 100% it’s not here.”
When it was put to Gerrard that one high-profile member of the England Under-21s had been reluctant to participate in last summer’s junior European Championships in Israel, he added: “Well, he should be embarrassed, if there is one player. But when you go down into the younger age groups, they’re young lads. They might not want to be away from their families.
“But when you become a man and you’re picked to play for England at this level and you find any excuse not to be here, you don’t deserve to be here. If you get a one-off situation where a player has a bad experience or falls out with a manager and doesn’t enjoy it, you can possibly understand it. But if Harry is talking about a group of players at one club who don’t want to be involved in the England setup? Well, if he names them, we can come back to that …”
Hodgson, who retains the full backing of the FA despite the team’s toils in Brazil, insisted there was a greater appetite for players to represent their country now than two years ago when he took up the reins in the wake of Capello’s resignation. “In the two years I’ve been here, I’ve seen a greater interest in playing for England, so Harry’s comments come as a bit of a surprise, quite frankly,” he said.
“So if you are going to make global comments like that, it’s a bit dangerous. You have to be prepared to say: ‘This player came to me and said …’ I could imagine ‘a player’ with an educated guess, but I don’t think I could name many Tottenham players, and certainly [not] among the ones I’ve worked with [to whom Redknapp’s words might apply].”
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/22/harry-redknapp-roy-hodgson-steven-gerrard-england
Steven Gerrard and Roy Hodgson angry at Harry Redknapp’s England claims
• Ex-Spurs manager says some players didn’t want call-ups
• Gerrard asks Redknapp to name and shame players
Dominic Fifield in Rio de Janeiro
The Guardian, Sunday 22 June 2014 22.30 BST
Steven Gerrard and Roy Hodgson have reacted furiously to assertions from Harry Redknapp that players at Tottenham Hotspur would ask him to withdraw them from senior England duty while he was in charge at White Hart Lane because they did not “need the aggro” of playing for their country.
The England manager and his captain urged Redknapp to identify the players to whom he was referring and “embarrass” them in public as the national side sift through the wreckage of their shortest World Cup campaign in 60 years. Gerrard, who will be rested and replaced as captain by Frank Lampard for Tuesday’s last group game against Costa Rica in Belo Horizonte, has been asked to stay on as skipper by Hodgson going into the qualification campaign for Euro 2016 but intends to take his time before making a decision on his future.
Although the team’s final duties at their Urca training base were conducted in a sombre mood, Gerrard in particular became animated when Redknapp’s comments questioning modern-day players’ commitment to the England setup were raised. The Queens Park Rangers manager, who had been a serious contender to succeed Fabio Capello two years ago before the Football Association chose Hodgson, had recalled incidents over his four-year spell at Spurs.
“I can tell you when I was at Tottenham, when full internationals came around, there were two or three players who did not want to play for England,” he told BBC 5 Live. “They would come to me 10 days before the game and say: ‘Gaffer, get me out of that game, I don’t want to play in that game.’
“That was how it was. I’d say: ‘You’re playing for your country, you should want to play.’ [They would say]: ‘Nah, my girlfriend is having a baby in four weeks, I don’t want to play’, and that is the truth, so it makes you wonder. And I think it’s only going to get worse. You see the stick the England players get and they come home, they’re earning fantastic money at their clubs, they’re all playing in the Champions League. They think: ‘Do we need the aggro?”’
There were 12 England players who worked under Redknapp at Spurs – Peter Crouch, Jermain Defoe, Aaron Lennon, Darren Bent, Scott Parker, David Bentley, Jermaine Jenas, Michael Dawson, Tom Huddlestone, Jonathan Woodgate, Ledley King and Kyle Walker – though the QPR manager’s apparent reluctance to identify those to whom he was referring riled Gerrard.
“I tell you what, I’d be interested to find out who those players are,” he said. “If Harry is making a comment like that, he should name them and embarrass them. Hand on heart, no one in this group wants to go home. No one has said to me they don’t like playing for England or that they don’t want to be here. If [what Redknapp says is] the case, it’s disgusting. For me, if a player doesn’t want to be here, he doesn’t deserve to be at a World Cup.
“But should Harry not name them? ‘They’ didn’t want to play for England. Who? Name them. We need names. Is it Aaron Lennon, Kyle Walker, Andros Townsend? I don’t know who he means. Does he mean five years ago? Or 10 years ago?” Hodgson interjected at this stage to insist it could not have been Defoe. “I’ve spoken to Jermain Defoe and he’s devastated [not to be in Brazil],” said Gerrard. “Harry Redknapp is a fantastic coach and a big character in the game, so for him to make a comment like that’s a big question in this room, but we need names. We need names or we can’t agree or disagree. But it’s not [been the case] here. I can guarantee 100% it’s not here.”
When it was put to Gerrard that one high-profile member of the England Under-21s had been reluctant to participate in last summer’s junior European Championships in Israel, he added: “Well, he should be embarrassed, if there is one player. But when you go down into the younger age groups, they’re young lads. They might not want to be away from their families.
“But when you become a man and you’re picked to play for England at this level and you find any excuse not to be here, you don’t deserve to be here. If you get a one-off situation where a player has a bad experience or falls out with a manager and doesn’t enjoy it, you can possibly understand it. But if Harry is talking about a group of players at one club who don’t want to be involved in the England setup? Well, if he names them, we can come back to that …”
Hodgson, who retains the full backing of the FA despite the team’s toils in Brazil, insisted there was a greater appetite for players to represent their country now than two years ago when he took up the reins in the wake of Capello’s resignation. “In the two years I’ve been here, I’ve seen a greater interest in playing for England, so Harry’s comments come as a bit of a surprise, quite frankly,” he said.
“So if you are going to make global comments like that, it’s a bit dangerous. You have to be prepared to say: ‘This player came to me and said …’ I could imagine ‘a player’ with an educated guess, but I don’t think I could name many Tottenham players, and certainly [not] among the ones I’ve worked with [to whom Redknapp’s words might apply].”
It was quite recent, done during the World Cup but held back until the disaster so as to not appear as undermining Hodgson. I listened to the entire interview and Pearce went up in my estimation after that.
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