Roy Hodgson may be known in England as “Uncle Roy”, a comforting figure who feels like part of the English game’s furniture, his mild manners and conservative tactics an apparent throwback to the good old days. But that image of Hodgson doesn’t even begin to tell the story of a man whose career was longer, wider, braver and stranger than almost all of his countrymen. On this episode of the Football Pink Podcast, host Roddy Cairns (@RoddyGCairns) is joined by Graham Hollingsworth (@GramH75) and Pete Spencer (@irishpete67) to look back at the longer and more interesting era of Hodgson’s career, when he was a trailblazing English maverick making a name for himself on foreign shores.
