Paranoid question - have I missed it?

[WHITEwitch]

In all the coverage of Roy taking over as England Manager I have heard very little about his time at Fulham.

And with my new interest in the National game I have heard a fair bit of it.

In view of the current England squad choices I would have thought it very relevant that he took a mid table team like us to Hamburg. 

The longest time he has spent in the English game has been with us so why are we mentioned so little?    His time at Liverpool got a lot of perusal shortly after his appointment.

Is there really some kind of press bias/sanction against our Chairman?

Maybe I have missed it - did anyone else hear any reference to Fulham?

[VicHalomsLovechild]

I think it's too painful for the media to have to come to terms with the National Coach to have managed Fulham and WBA. That will all change when England start to lose though. Then they won't be able to shut up about Fulham, Roy and WBA :-) 

[Me-ate-Live, innit??]

 
Imagine how Pi$$ed the Baggies must be then !!
They sacreficed their manager for the cause and are barely mentioned

THAT article  in The Sun

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4287446/Hod-job-man.html
the comments are worth a read ....

http://hereisthecity.com/2012/05/01/roy-hodgson-should-be-judged-on-fulham-wonders-not-liverpool-blu/


The bit I 'love' is this quote
Former England striker Dion Dublin, 43, said: "To get Harry from Spurs would cost an absolute fortune. I think it's getting players on side, getting players playing for you — Harry is the best manager doing that.

"Roy has got to come in and try and copy that."

Dion WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!

The comments are unbelievable in particular the Liverpool one ................................ didn't anyone tell them King Kenny was also sacked after spending a shed load

[LBNo11]

...I think I heard a lone voice in the media mention the connection, but I think he got away with it...

[Scrumpy]

In fairness, I don't think it's an anti Fulham thing, more an anti 'small Club' thing. We get precious little media coverage, but the likes of WBA, Wigan, Bolton etc just get totally ignored. It aint right  :035:

[LBNo11]

In fairness, I don't think it's an anti Fulham thing, more an anti 'small Club' thing. We get precious little media coverage, but the likes of WBA, Wigan, Bolton etc just get totally ignored. It aint right  :035:

...they, like us, are considered a vital irrelevance, just there as fodder for the glamorously rich clubs...

[WHITEwitch]

lmao at the winkball interviews on that second link Kcat.

I'm not convinced - staying with my conspiracy theory - just because you're paranoid.................

[bizarrebaz]

Read John Dillon's excellent piece about Ray in the daily express today

[WHITEwitch]

Read John Dillon's excellent piece about Ray in the daily express today

Lovely breakfast read - thanks.

[Willard]

Yes a good piece about Ray. Here is the piece itself -


ROY HODGSON'S RAY OF HOPE AS COOL HEADS PREVAIL

Friday June 22,2012
By John Dillon

IN THE dugout next to Roy Hodgson sits a man who many years ago ate his pre-match meals on the team bus.A bowl of cornflakes saved on restaurant bills when Ray Lewington was Fulham's player-manager at the age of just 29. England have come down to earth in this tournament and it seems to be working.

They used to isolate themselves in a protective bubble of such self-importance that at the 2002 World Cup a Japanese Navy submarine patrolled the waters around their island base.Now they are staying just off the town square in Krakow. In luxury, yes, but then they are here to play a football tournament. They need to be comfortable. Yet none of the squad has experienced the lower reaches of the game as profoundly as the man who is Hodgson's highly trusted No2.

"Without Ray Lewington and his family, there probably wouldn't even be a Fulham now," says Craven Cottage stalwart Tony Gale.

The club nearly went out of existence, they were nearly merged with QPR and the whole place was nearly knocked down but Lewington always seemed to keep them going.

They were skint and near the foot of the old Division Three when he first became their boss in 1986, having made 174 appearances in midfield for them during the early Eighties. Fulham remained skint and in trouble for nearly all his four years in charge, during which there were two takeovers and the seemingly constant threat the Cottage would be bulldozed because of its prime site by the Thames.

After 11 years in the Premier League and under the ownership of Mohamed Al Fayed, Fulham are a very different sort of club nowadays. But, since 2007, Lewington has held no less than six different posts with them, including two spells as caretaker boss. They are not just in his blood, he is in theirs.

What does this tell us about what England have achieved by reaching the last eight of Euro 2012?

While the focus has been on the unpretentious style and the cool head Hodgson has brought to the role of manager, the idea that this is just a football team here to take part in a tournament and no more is embedded right through the whole playing side.
At times under Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello, it was almost as if they had a post akin to some head of state so much fuss went on around them. Eriksson launched a collection of his favourite classical music on CD and had his own WAG, Nancy Dell'Olio. Capello set up his infamous Index. Among the first things Steve McClaren did when he got the job was to have his teeth done and appoint Max Clifford as his PR man.

The team became better known globally for their celebrity status than any achievement. Sven and Don Fabio often seemed bemused by the whole circus, but went along with it in matters such as pre-tournament planning and England's isolation far from where any football was played.
Meanwhile, Hodgson and Lewington, along with Gary Neville – you would never call him pretentious, either – simply carry on in the manner of men who appreciate the honour of coaching the national team but go about it as they would any other job in the game.
The players are responding, in the same unfussy, hard-working and focused way. You feel if they were asked to, they would even settle happily for a bowl of cornflakes for lunch.

[NogoodBoyo]

Nice angle that.
Nogood "Express cornflake service for witches and cats, isit" Boyo