Here goes great and exciting news for the fans of Roy Hodgson. England’s boss Roy Hodgson says he feels more fortunate than Stuart Lancaster, having kept his employment after an early exit from the World Cup the previous summer. Lancaster left his post as head coach of England’s rugby union group on Wednesday after his side went out of the Rugby World Cup in the gathering stage. Hodgson was held regardless of his group enduring the same destiny in Brazil.
He said, “I was more fortunate that the FA kept faith in me at a time when results didn’t go as they should. They could, if they had wanted to, have decided to change course. Stuart wasn’t so lucky.”
He further said by adding, “It’s a purely personal affiliation. It’s got nothing to do with whether the RFU is doing the right thing or not.”
Since their World Cup leave, Hodgson’s men have gone 15 diversions without annihilation, including winning each of the 10 of their Euro 2016 capability matches.
They confront European champions Spain in Alicante on Friday before meeting Euro 2016 hosts France at Wembley next Tuesday.
Hodgson said, “I’m grateful the FA kept faith with me and the work we were doing with a good team in a transitional period. We’re still in that transitional period to some extent because, if anything, the team’s getting younger. But the young players are getting a lot of experience. So even though some of our players are only 20-21 years of age, they’re already up to 20 caps and have been playing regularly for a couple of years.”
Ross Barkley said, “My opinion hasn’t changed since we brought him into the squad – and it feels like an eternity ago, certainly well over two years – he is a bright young talent.
“Every time he has come to us we think he is a bit better, particularly in the last two games against Estonia and Lithuania, when he started both games and he was man of the match in certainly one. I feel like the future is incredibly bright for a player like him and it is up to him, as he has said so many times himself, to keep working, to keep developing his game and improving and making sure that whenever the team is announced he is a name I cannot possibly leave out.”
