The Anonymous Widower

A Little Alone Time For Roy

This headline accompanied a picture of Roy Hodgson walking by the waterfront by the team’s hotel in Rio.

Managing footballers and especially those as well-paid as today’s England team, is probably not an easy job. I got to wondering, how the players were reacting to Roy’s apparent calmness.

So I looked up Sir Alf Ramsey’s obituary in the Guardian. Talking about his playing career, they said this of Sir Alf.

He was a calming and reassuring influence on the whole team. 

So one could probably assume that he managed his teams  in a similar way. We do know from the likes of Ian Callaghan, that Sir Alf fought to get the best for his players, and it was probably partly from Sir Alf’s pushing that the whole England squad from 1966 got winner’s medals. Even if he got his posthumously.

I don’t think that for the England team to get worked up will do them any good.

So is Roy doing his best to keep total calm in the camp? After all he has been to World Cup Finals before with Switzerland in 1994. So he probably knows more about motivating a side in the World Cup than any of the public! Or the pundits!

June 12, 2014 - Posted by AnonW | Sport | Football, Roy Hodgson, World Cup 2014