Roy Hodgson Appointed England Boss

Roy Hodg­son

The Foot­ball Asso­ci­ation announced yes­ter­day that Roy Hodg­son has been appoin­ted as the new man­ager of the Eng­land team. The West Brom­wich Albion supremo has agreed to put pen to paper on a four-year con­tract and the 64-year-old will now lead The Three Lions into the 2012 European Cham­pi­on­ships in Poland and Ukraine.

Even though Roy Hodg­son enjoyed a fine play­ing career, it´s prob­ably only fair to claim that the like­able South Lon­doner has achieved a lot more as a foot­ball man­ager than he ever did as an act­ive player. A highly accom­plished and exper­i­enced coach, the seasoned cam­paigner has been in charge at a num­ber of clubs both home and abroad includ­ing Halmstad, Bris­tol City, Malmo, Neucha­tel Xamax, Internazionale, Black­burn Rovers, Grasshop­pers, Copen­ha­gen, Udinese, Ful­ham and Liv­er­pool. The well estab­lished and much respec­ted Roy Hodg­son has also man­aged the Swiss, Finnish and United Arab Emir­ates national sides. Jeremy Pearce: “We did not want Roy Hodg­son to leave and he will be a tough act to fol­low. But we under­stand Hodgson’s desire to take the Eng­land job and he will leave us after the Arsenal game on 13 May with our best wishes.”

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