Jonny Brick examines the career of legendary coach and manager Roy Hodgson
ROY Hodgson has not yet written his memoir. You would imagine it would open with the Grief in Nice: England 1-2 Iceland. For yet another famous coach, the job of England manager became impossible.
Less impossible and less costly would be the task of translating the book from English into Italian, French, Swedish and German. Hodgson is fluent in all these languages because he went native while he was working across Europe in his five-decade career as coach.
Hodgson’s life began in Croydon. He taught PE at Alleyn’s, a pr...