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Roy of the Rovers ? Hardly
May 2nd, 2012 | 
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In perhaps one of the more underwhelming announcements of recent days, the FA appointed Roy Hodgson as the new England Manager and frankly, whether voiced publicly or not, I suspect that most people would think “So what ?” There had been a lot of buzz around Harry Rednap as being the most likely candidate and he would certainly have been more the “people’s choice” if only because he is far better media and a bigger personality.
However, this is not a case of “Lions led by Donkeys”, it probably wouldn’t matter who the Manager was, the whole focus of both the players and the FA is the Premier League, that is where the money is, that is where their focus is, the England Team is a sideshow to them all and it shows in the consistently poor results at the International level.
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The England Football Team
We all know that the England Team had a very poor World Cup Tournament in South Africa and last night they played their first game since then, a friendly against Hungary at Wembley. In the end England won 2-1, all goals coming in the second half.
I watched the first half but not the second which was quite brave really because if you support England, either you don’t watch it on TV live or, you watch it from behind the sofa. However, after South Africa, I watched with mild interest as I no longer felt that involved plus, at 9 o’clock in the evening, I had something more interesting to watch on another channel. However, from this match, the run up to it and the aftermath, there were a number of interesting things which I thought are worth a comment.