From Hossein Motevalli : Hodgson
What a brilliant manoeuvre to bring in Gary Neville!
He’s grabbed the one of the games most intelligent thinkers (now universally liked and respected)!
Besides coach, Gary Neville can act as a link between the Roy and the players AND as a buffer between Roy and the tabloids.
I wonder what Stuart Pearce thinks of that?
I remember you writing once what a great name “Jack Wilshere” is – like a RAF pilot.
Well, “Roy Hodgson” will do for me as the Squadron Leader.
Myles says :
I hope Jack gets 50 caps or more, Hossein.
I vaguely remember writing something like that.
Recently took my brother Neil, visiting from Colorado, to the RAF Museum in Hendon, which has changed a lot since we took our kids there when they were in primary school.
More planes now. Modern military jets are far bigger and more powerful- looking than WWII aircraft, obviously.
Two weeks ago I read a Biggles book for the first time in 50 years.
It was fun because there is plenty of action, which schoolboys always relish.
As a baby boomer kid, I grew up on Biggles and his pilot pals Bertie, Ginger and Algy.
Make that Flight Lieutenant Algy Lacey, DFC, Flying Officer “Ginger” Hebblethwaite, and Flight Lieutenant Lord “Bertie” Lissie.
In Biggles Fails To Return, our hero has problems on a secret mission in the South of France.
But Henri, a 19-year old French pilot who knows the area intimately, says that Bertie, Ginger and Algy can parachute into a little-known valley near Monaco and go and rescue Biggles from there.
So the boys say, “OK, Henri, give us your Mum’s address, we’ll pop in and tell her you’re alive and well and working for us.”