The England Retrospective, Part 11

Roy of the Rovers?

Roy Hodgson probably spent his whole career dreaming of managing England.

Without a famous playing career to fall back on, he couldn’t walk into a job and had to take his first coaching steps outside his home country. It was a bold choice that few Englishmen make. He found astonishing success in Sweden pretty much immediately, winning the Allsvenskan tit…