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The England Retrospective, Part 11

Roy of the Rovers?

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Grace Robertson
Jun 19, 2021
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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…

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