The Strangest Sacking Of All Time: Why England Sacked Glenn Hoddle

[@parker-ii7fg]

Could I recommend a video regarding the rise and fall of Gretna FC. They went from playing in the English amateur leagues, to transferring to the Scottish leagues where they won three straight promotions, reached a Scottish Cup final and competed in Europe, only to suffer financial collapse and go bust in their first, and only, season in the SPL. All this within the space of just six years. One of the most remarkable cinderella stories in British football history, but sadly with a Shakespearean tragedy of an ending. Would be worth an in depth video.

[@p_booth_fan]

Que flashbacks of Soccer Saturday on sky, with Jeff Stelling mentioning the good Doctor Kenny Duchar almost every week 😅

[@RedCloudGawdian]

It's an awesome story, but Alfie will never be able to do it as well as Sky Sports already did. "The Club That Vanished" has many primary sources that Alfie just won't be able to use. Plus, I think he prefers to do stories that haven't already been covered by the mainstream media.

[@jasoncoleman9552]

I worked for the company the Gretna owner founded & with his brother for a few years, when Brooks died the family pulled the plug & the inevitable happened, always an interesting topic as wonder where they would be if Brooks was still around, literally loved football, used to travel to away games with the Gretna fans & paid for Fish & Chips for them all multiple times 😂

[@tomthomassony8607]

@@RedCloudGawdian Glen Hoddle being sacked by England has been covered 1000s of times.

[@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769]

That says more about the level of Scottish football than anything else.

[@thomaschambers4250]

The video isn’t about Sam allardyce so this is clickbait

[@peterking5537]

Lol 😁. Great comment.

[@ellismcconnell7672]

Cracking comment lad 👏😂😂

[@lucaslonchampt613]

What happened with Sam? Like I know he was the manager for a brief period if time but that's it

[@jordanstevens8132]

Ha. He said the sacking was strange.

[@MrBazzdoc]

@@lucaslonchampt613 he was found to be accepting illegal payments (bribes*) twice and was flaunting transer/player ownership rules. High level football corruption

[@aasemahsan]

I still can't get my head around the fact that Hoddle left out Matt Le Tissier in 1998. He was the most technically proficient player England produced after Hoddle's retirement. Hoddle who himself was left out of the England squad a number of times because of his 'lack of defensive work/physicality ' did the same thing to Le Tissier.

[@benjammin9471]

The fact he only got 7 or 8 England caps in total is a crime against humanity

[@jamesquinton7070]

@Nebby Scumbold I don’t really think disagreeing with lockdown means he has a “difficult personality” - pretty harsh

[@r4h4al]

The players that went were good though so it was inevitable that some good players were going to have to be left out.

[@dondamon4669]

We had Ince and Scholes there who were much better players. Le Tissier just drifted around and contributed with a brilliant goal once ever 6/7 games and done nothing absolutely nothing else

[@SaudiGod]

Most overrated player for England, reason why he never played for a decent team

[@detectivesquirrel2621]

I think its humorous the number of Football manager games at the time introduced 'Faith Healer' as an optional member of staff you could hire.

[@jackwilliams9226]

As a chelsea fan what Glenn hoddle did for the club was amazing didn't win anything but got us to a cup final and turned us from a team who finished anywhere between 15th and 10th every year in to a top 6 team and got the ball rolling for those who came next can't thank Glenn enough really cause without him chelsea wouldn't be the same team today because with him set us up for the next step we wouldn't have been anywhere near the champions league pre2003 take over

[@iangascoigne8231]

“Glen Hoddle was amazing for Chelsea” “He didn’t win anything, but he was amazing” Priceless.

[@dimitri7851]

@@iangascoigne8231 what graham potter has done for Brighton is amazing but they haven’t won anything under him, same with poch at spurs and lage and vieira at wolves and palace so far. You can do well for a club without winning trophies

[@tonguelessghostofsin]

@@iangascoigne8231 Try talking to Liverpool fans about who their best manager was. I'll give you a clue: it's not the guy who won the most trophies.

[@iangascoigne8231]

@@dimitri7851 Poch didn’t win anything at an elite club and still hasn’t, despite doing well at Southampton . It’s funny though how you are comparing Spurs to Brighton, Wolves and Palace. Lage, Potter and Vieira have done well but they are hardly at elite Premier League clubs. If they went to a Spurs or Man U and finished in the same position as their previous clubs they would be seen as failures and sacked. Though another manager who did well at Wolves, Espirito Santo, went to Spurs and that was hardly a success was it? So no at the very top level not winning trophies isn’t doing well. Edit, My mistake Poch has won the League 1 title with PSG. Though because of their spending power it’s almost a one team league so he should win. But he won so he deserves credit. Yet he sill lost his job, for failing to win the Champions League despite having the world’s best footballer. So even winning a trophy isn’t doing well enough for the owners of PSG.

[@iangascoigne8231]

@@tonguelessghostofsin Really? You personally know every Liverpool fan’s opinion? You’ll be saying man u fans don’t love Ferguson. Then again I’m not the one with the stupid username.

[@mrcopes165]

I was 9 years old when Glenn Hoddle made his comments, I was a young disabled boy and had never really heard anything like that before. I was massively into football and my dream was to play it (even though it would never be possible). He absolutely shattered me with his words and they still haunt me to this day. I can understand certain football fans appreciating Hoddle for what he may have done for their respective clubs. But I hate that he has been allowed to come back into the media fold, every time I hear his voice as a commentator or pundit it still hurts to this day. Ron Atkinson has been pretty much exiled from British media since 2004 when he made his racist comments and Andy Gray has pretty much been treated the same way for his sexist comments in 2011 (and rightfully so). But Hoddle made a much more detailed comment about the disabled and he's been brought back in with welcome arms. Even his apology was fucked up.

[@attackpatterndelta8949]

If it helps, as a commentator he’s bloody hard to listen to.

[@NearioNL]

Yeah I dont think being racsist or sexist is on the same level though. People wont always say what you want, and are allowed to have idiotic opinions. Best to learn that young and do something with it

[@ActiveArron]

It was less about taking a dig at disabled and more about sharing his religious beliefs in reincarnation

[@iangascoigne8231]

@@ActiveArron Was it? Do Christians believe in reincarnation?

[@ActiveArron]

@@iangascoigne8231 he certainly does

[@lucaslonchampt613]

I enjoy having more players like Shaw being used for a split second for comedic effects, like Eddie Howe. Keep em coming

[@654jimbob654]

As a Swindon fan, I can confirm that Hoddle still has a lot of love in this town for what he achieved in his sadly-brief two years at the club. He was a very gifted player and seemed to have what it took to be a top level manager. I can't excuse the comments that led to his sacking and think they made his position as England manager untenable, but I do wonder what could have been if he had stayed.

[@steve-bk1qd]

loved your season in the Prem 🤣😂

[@stevescholler4846]

​@@steve-bk1qd at least we have played at that level. we won't ever get there again though and certainly not in my lifetime

[@lawrenceporter8389]

Comments that a journalist tricked him into making and for which he immediately apologised

[@addshay5313]

I agree that his comments were not something I agree with, but I will say that billions of people and two major religions worldwide share them.

[@aidanmagill6769]

Karmic reincarnation is a widely held religious belief.

[@emilymcplugger]

I’d disagree. For one, his man-management in the 98 WC was shocking. With his comments about Beckham and his temperament in the group games he might as well have painted a target on Beckham’s back. His words in interviews are as much a part of tactical game as his team talk, he didn’t understand this and it was as much of a reason of us not progressing as Beckham’s red card. By comparison Sven’s backing of Danny Mills in 02 was full and vocal. Having a manager that has your back is vital.

[@JoshuaMSP1995]

Other players (such as Merson) praise Hoddle's man-management.

[@emilymcplugger]

@Joshua P But the way he hung Beckham out to dry before the Argentina match was shocking. Still, all in the past now.

[@RedAndWhiteSFC]

I hated him, slightly biased but he refused to pick Le Tiss who would’ve been quality for England and that’s a fact

[@petesmart1983]

Saying that Sven said he can't drop Beckham for marketing reasons and the fa

[@patinho5589]

If he’d played Owen in the opening game we’d have won it.. won the group.. and then not faced Argentina in the round of 16. And then won the World Cup.

[@iangascoigne8231]

The referee disallowed the goal because Shearer fouled the goal keeper. Which is ironic since Beckham always gets the blame.

[@r4h4al]

Yeah he goes for an elbow on the keeper.

[@iangascoigne8231]

@@r4h4al That’s the one. Thanks for reminding me.

[@deanbrown29]

It was a goal! Unbelievable cheating by fifa as per.

[@iangascoigne8231]

@@deanbrown29 No it wasn’t. Shearer elbowed the goalie in the face.

[@GrahamMilkdrop]

I'm glad other people remember the truth too.

[@SamButler22]

Ironic that his downfall came after an interview where he said what goes around comes around

[@sidosh2229]

Day 44: Considering that the last player who played in the miracle of Bern died about 7 months ago, I would really like to see a video about the whole story between Germany and Hungary, especially because it meant so much to at least the German population

[@danielvasas2915]

There was no miracle only doping

[@flozirkus7618]

Day 44: shut up.

[@sidosh2229]

@@flozirkus7618 Interesting that such a comment is only below mine and not below the other comments which try to accomplish a similar fee. But to get the good vibes back into the comment section and work against your toxicity: Have a great day mate!

[@danielbrennan7613]

No….. piss off

[@NickWard-f6l]

Germany took a shed load of steroids. Deliberately tried to break Puskas ankle .And there was a conspiracy to get West Germany to win to help them get back on there feet after WW2 .A eastern European country winning was never going to happen. A total travesty Hungary were the best team by a mile .Some of the referee decions in the final were a joke ....ironically it was a English ref 😮

[@unstoppableExodia]

I can now understand why in the David Beckham and posh spice episode of star stories they portrayed glen hoddle as a mystic swami who constantly bases his decisions on tarot card readings. My favorite gag from that was when hoddle draws a skeleton card and immediately interprets it to mean posh spice

[@louiserandle9105]

Stephen Hawking was Adolf Hitler 😂

[@unstoppableExodia]

@@louiserandle9105 YESSS I just rewatched it just now and that’s exactly what hoddle says claiming Stephen hawking was hitler in his past life 😂😂😂. The narrator even partly describes hoddle as a ‘cripple taunter’

[@geoffclarke3796]

Glenn was my hero in his playing days and he was one of the main reasons I became a Spurs fan as young boy in the late 1970's along with the signings of Ardiles & Villa. From a football perspective it was unfortunate when you look at the managers who followed like Keegan and McLaren, who was out of their depth and Sven, who was a very unimaginative coach and who underachieved with the players at his disposal. The likes of Scholes, Shearer and Ferdinand were big Hoddle fans and sad at his departure. The FA are hopeless when it comes to England managers.

[@Jaybale3]

My dad is a spurs fan who grew up in the 70’s and the one player he always tells me about is Glenn hoddle, he always describes how he could just walk through a team with ease and how easily he could place a pass on a pence piece.

[@MGEX8206]

You're flattering Hoddle a fair bit here given that England's 1998 performance was a massive step down from Euro 96 which what was largely a similar squad, other than the likes of Beckham and Owen coming through and he was slow to put his faith in either of those two players. If we had beaten Romania, we'd have avoided Argentina altogether. I was at that England vs Bulgaria game you referenced...and it was a dirge of a performance. As a disabled individual myself...well yeah, I was in no mood to cut him any slack. I'm not convinced that we would have had a mindblowing Euro 2000 on his watch. He might have proven less reckless than Keegan and less likely to bail on us in the middle of an international window but on Hoddle's watch it would have been quarter finals at best in 2000 and I can hardly imagine him masterminding the 5-1 in Munich. Don't want to speculate any further than that.

[@chrischandler4151]

I would also question whether those theoretical tactics would have worked. After all, Beckham was a right sided midfielder early in his career and without having a solid right back like Gary Neville behind him may have done a terrible defensive job in an unfamiliar role. Did he have the physical attributes to get up and down the pitch quickly? As always, the solution to the Scholes, Gerrard and Lampard situation was to play two of them along with a real left winger and to keep one on the bench. With the depth of talent England have they should pick players to fit the system, not a system to fit the players. Meanwhile, Hoddle went on to have a solid but unspectacular managerial career after England, so he hardly proved himself to be an unrecognised tactical genius. He had one decent tournament with England, as many others have done since.

[@JoshuaMSP1995]

How was it a massive step down? England were good v Tunisia, amazing against Colombia and sensational against Argentina, just didn't get the breaks in the last one. England's Euro 96 was massively overhyped, with poor performances v Switzerland and Spain, did get the breaks in that one!

[@MGEX8206]

@@JoshuaMSP1995 Cood vs Columbia and the Argies yes...wouldn't say amazing and should have been able to see off Romania.

[@ronmastrio2798]

Only reason England got to the Semi's in 96 was because the refs robbed Spain.

[@MrSmith1984]

@@chrischandler4151 Playing 3-5-2 would have likely worked better (for the Golden Generation) than playing 4-4-2 for several reasons during those years, this is because: *England lacked Wingers, RBs & DMs during this era. On the other hand, they had plenty of good CBs & Midfielders. Thus playing 4-4-2 was never going to work under those circumstances. *Having a Back 3 would have meant that Beckham would have had Defensive cover when going forward. Of course another option could have been playing Beckham in Midfield itself (and play Neville & eventually Johnson at RWB), which he has mentioned was his preferred position anyway. *By having Ferdinand as a de facto DM/Sweeper, it would have allowed England to have a Midfield 3 of Lampard, Gerrard & Scholes. In which Scholes is the Deep Lying Playmaker, Gerrard & Lampard can go forward without causing Defensive Issues (which they where best at) and the likes of Cole would provide a good backup option. I would also point out that England didn't really have a good DM option until Carrick emerged; although under a 3-5-2, he would have played in Ferdinand's position in a Back 3 (in other words his backup & successor).

[@FrCheese1893]

Sparta Prague once sacked their manager halfway through the season, when they were 1st, 7 points clear of 2nd place. They have won only 3 titles since that (2006 I think) and never played the UCL again.

[@nickjeffery536]

One thing that it's entirely plain to see is that if we were to judge managers purely on results and performances on the pitch, and not on off-field issues, then Glenn Hoddle would not have left the job anywhere near as soon as he did - mind you, he also would not have even gotten the job, as Terry Venables would have stayed in charge after Euro 1996...

[@r4h4al]

Venables quit of his own accord so Hoddle would've still got the job.

[@nickjeffery536]

@@r4h4al Still wasn't for football reasons

[@franohmsford7548]

As a Wolves fan I'm glad you at least mentioned the ridiculous number of draws we had under Hoddle. I can also say categorically that Hoddle like Taylor before him was not a world class manager, just a man who had a good run and probably got the England job a bit too early. Like so many England managers before and after him, the England job came as a poisoned chalice and he never returned to the top of the game afterwards. The England Football Team's effect on managers has always been bad - Bobby Robson is possibly alone in going on to manage top teams after leaving the England job {Unless you count Venables one disastrous season with Leeds....The Club too big to go down!!!}. Venables himself clearly left England too quickly and should have stayed at least two more years for the 98 World Cup when Redknapp should have replaced him.

[@chlcrk]

Why did Venables leave anyway?

[@Mag7Music]

My friend whose brother is disabled despises Hoddle to this day. Can't say I disagree.

[@scotsman242424]

Rightly so, he's a wanker.

[@CrackaPackify]

I hear Glenn Hoddle and think "isn't he the manager who shit talked disabled people" so that unfortunately illustrates his legacy

[@andrewfisher3924]

what a stupid comment. The most gifted English player of his generation, turned England in to a modern looking team, turned Chelsea in to a top 6 side and got Swindon in to the premier league.

[@nigget-tv-videos4135]

yes however even now he's opinions. dosent make him a bad person that upset many. but its fine for a manager now to suggest ur racist if you dont support taking the knee which upset many... i dont support taking the knee as if footballers cared they wouldnt take money and personnel money from brands that pay child and slave labour in countries there products are made

[@1882osr]

@@nigget-tv-videos4135 Honestly, it's funny in such a pathetic way to see a racist get upset about being vaguely suggested that they're a racist, and not even directly.

[@Justanotherandy63]

@@andrewfisher3924 Ruined by his wingnut religious beliefs and bigoted views.

[@thesedreamsarefree]

@@Justanotherandy63 I'm not sure it's a bigoted view. It carries no judgement one way or the other. Those who follow that sort of religious belief see human experience as a chain of continuous rebirths in which souls are drawn to present experiences by previous experiences in previous incarnations. It's possible to hold such a view and have nothing but compassion for those with disability. I think the journalist he spoke to interpreted Hoddle's words in a way that made the story. He introduced Hoddle's spiritual beliefs into the interview trying to get a story. Then he chose to focus on something he'd hypothesized from their conversation, something along the lines of "so you think disabled people are being punished for something they did in previous lives? Glenn is supposed to have said, "not just disabled people" meaning everyone is a result of their past lives, but the journalist had the fish he wanted on the hook and delivered a story which made the headlines. He lost his job because David Mellor, Tory MP, Five Live presenter and Chelsea fan campaigned against him mercilessly. They said Hoddle was mad but it's a belief similar to 1.2 billion Hindus and 520 million Buddhists who see all conditions as transitional and determined by karma.

[@christopherreynolds9254]

Great vid, when I look on that time I realise how talented the players were compared to now. It’s a shame they never came together in a workable system for any length of time. We just don’t have that level of world class talent anymore.

[@Thomas...191]

The usage of a faith healer can be scoffed at (and I can't help doing so myself). But when you look at the very real power of the placebo effect; bringing her in could actually work if a few injured players took to her.

[@davidhumphrey608]

Except I can't. Remember what Darren Anderton nick name was ?

[@nurrr897]

Had no idea about any of this. Great video Alfie

[@bricktop.]

Comments section: " do a video on the various types of urinals available at grounds in the morrocan 2 tier"

[@conorf1995]

Glenn Hoddle's interview on the High Performance podcast was inspiring and honest, I highly recommend it.

[@lukelittle5828]

With bale to Cardiff circulating I was thinking a biggest drop in wages video could be a good idea, love the content keep up the good work

[@anant1462]

Excellent video - really intriguing stuff. Great job, Alfie.

[@charliegrimes4197]

This is one of your best videos, standards never drop, well done!

[@spd7693]

Well... Hoddle was right about one thing. 3-5-2 really did turn out the formation of the future. I think soon enough this actually will be the most common formation in football nonetheless.

[@attackpatterndelta8949]

I use it all the time in Champ Manager 03/04. But then I play the game managing an Arsenal side that has Vieira and Henry in it. I can’t lose.

[@johnmitchell2269]

Loads of Italian clubs were playing that formation throughout the 80's.

[@therebel4332]

Its not a new phenomana 😂 352 is great if you have the right type of players. Its no good with players Ince, Beckham, Shearer, Campbell, Batty etc.. you aint getting far with that set up with those players.

[@highergingerbeing5134]

I think Ray Parlour just became one of my favorite footballers for that quote alone 🤣🤣🤣

[@davespagnol8847]

If you see Romford Pele's video where he talks about the incident with Eileen Drury, he reckons she laughed when he ordered the haircut and it was Hoddle who got the arsehole over it.

[@SonnyK248]

So Glenn got some of his GF’s mum when he was a 17 year old pup and it blew his mind so hard he basically went along with anything she said, right up to the point of talking to god and having magic powers. Must have been some lay 👍

[@ThreeRunHomer]

She blew more than his mind!

[@bigswollenballs2516]

Underated comment

[@grid462]

Next video suggestion: how would the England team and the whole world be if Rupert Murdoch had never lived ?

[@RichO1701e]

Imagine England as a country had Murdoch had never lived...

[@OverlordOL]

Nice analysis over Hoddle's time as England manager and I really enjoyed you going over the potential "what if"'s had he stayed on as manager at end. With this and the recent Southgate video, it makes me ask if you have any interest in possibly analysing what might have probably happened had Sam Allardyce remained as England manager had he not done the dumb thing that lost him his job in the first place (and presumably wouldn't do something similar that would cost him his job later). What would have been his tactics and squad for 2018 in contrast to Southgate's? Would he have kept on the likes of Rooney and Hart over Maguire and Pickford? How would have the team performed in both the remaining qualifiers and tournament itself (obviously, there would be too much of a butterfly effect regarding the World Cup draw so England would've definitely had a couple of different opponents)? Would he had carried on as manager afterwards and for how long? And who would succeed Sam as manager afterwards and, if not Southgate, what would Southgate be doing during all of this?

[@r4h4al]

Probably a blessing in disguise as Southgate has surely done better than Allardyce would have done.

[@dondamon4669]

No manager would of kept Rooney! He could hardly run , he was like a 40 yr old and now he’s like a 50 yr old. Hasn’t drank water or had a vegetable in his life!!

[@attackpatterndelta8949]

If Allardyce hadn’t been caught in that particular sting that resulted in his resignation, he’d have been caught by something else. The man is a crook, and his tactics are medieval. England fans whinge about Southgate, but he’s the most successful England manager since Ramsey. He’s had some luck, but all successful managers have an element of luck.

[@denethorofgondor4567]

@@attackpatterndelta8949 I totally agree.....If we roughly consider the beginning of "modern" football to be 1970, than England had only been to 2 semifinals since then (before Southgate took over). Not many people also know that England have never, in their entire history(including Alf Ramsey), been to a Euro Finals before Southgate.

[@Ernest_Thesiger]

The mythology surrounding Hoddle's management is baffling! For starters, he should never have got the England job in the first place. Chelsea finished no higher than 11th in his three seasons at the club and he had one of the worst win-rates in Chelsea's history. You may say he had a couple of good runs in The FA Cup but look at who Chelsea beat: 93/94 - Barnet in a replay, Sheff Wed in a replay, Oxford, Wolves and Luton. 95/96 - Newcastle on pens, QPR, Grimsby in a replay and Wimbledon in a replay. Chelsea lost to Millwall in Round 4 in between those two runs. As for his time with England, the fact that his biggest feat was getting just one point in two games against a good but by no means great Italy side says it all! England failed at France '98, thanks, in no small part, to having a hard last 16 game after somehow failing to win their group after Hoddle decided the already world-class Beckham and Owen weren't ready to start the crucial game against Romania. The Euro 2000 qualifiers followed and England picked up just one point from their first two games! People claim that England were going places at the time when Hoddle was sacked for non-footballing reasons but the truth is, the fans didn't like him(hence the loud boos after his last game at Wembley), a lot of players didn't like him and England had been getting worse and worse over the previous year or so. Hoddle was probably just one more poor result away from getting the sack for footballing reasons. After England, Hoddle went to Southampton, where he did no more than a decent job. He then had a nightmare spell at Spurs and then went to Wolves, where he was sacked after winning just 27 of 76 games despite the club being one of the favourites for promotion during his time there. Amazingly, despite everything that had gone before, despite all the evidence to show his management skills were almost as bad as his man-management skills and despite the fact he'd been out of work for about 10 years, quite a lot of people were calling for Hoddle to replace Hodgson in 2016! You may think he talks a good game, you may think he has interesting ideas about formations and tactics but the fact is, although he was a great player, Glenn Hoddle was not a good manager!

[@moonlightrelax639]

Le Tissier hated him at Southampton, man management skills of pissing off your best player and club legend

[@stilettoswinger7404]

Great summary.thanks for putting the time and effort into it.

[@NickWard-f6l]

Best profile iv read about Hoddle ..most overated manger in England's history .Great at pissing players off .A total cold fish .To leave Gascoigne and Le tiss at home was a travesty not as starters but impact subs .

[@Goat-wh1qw]

Many people wanted Hoddle sacked before the World Cup for not picking Gascoigne in the tournament squad

[@attackpatterndelta8949]

Saw a documentary about Gascoigne a while back. If he’d played today he’d probably be the first name on the England team sheet. More importantly, he’d get the help he so desperately needed to combat has drink problem. It was no surprise that Gascoigne wasn’t selected for France ‘98. He was a time bomb.

[@Goat-wh1qw]

@@attackpatterndelta8949 he was always a time bomb, same vein as George Best, always best player at the time

[@thf3038]

I think it was because he didn't intend on playing gascoigne in his starting 11 which he felt would have been unsettling for Gaza as he was not used to being a squad player during his career.

[@jakelennon5299]

Don't know if you've done something like this before, but a 'Top 7 Goals that never were' would be cool, focusing on goals which weren't given but also weren't illegal and so should've been and how they might have changed footballing history.

[@philipglover3295]

I remember watching the 2014 World Cup the day after Luis Suarez bit Giorgio Chellini . Hoddle was on the coverage and made a comment about how Surarez shouldn’t have done it and been more of a role model to kids All I thought was that’s rich after how you got sacked as England manager

[@saab2906]

So if you’ve done something bad you can never criticise someone else? You’re not perfect mate doing the same thing now

[@philipglover3295]

No it was the way he said it was very condescending and kind of holier than thou while sitting on Imponema beach with his sunglasses, massive sun hat and trousers rolled up just made me cringe had it have been in a studio I would have just forgotten it but that visual stuck in my head

[@cameroncopus9737]

A lot of the players that were managed by him all say that he had no people skills and he would bully and belittle players and he also said publicly that Michael Owen "Wasn't a natural goalscorer" which is a ludicrous statement and is surely going to destroy the confidence of one of your top players plus the rot had already set in by the time of his sacking he oversaw a disappointing World Cup where we lost to Rumania and finished second in the group then lost to Argentina and then lost to Sweden in are first Euro Qualifying match a few months after

[@LPCLASSICAL]

Yes many forget how we lost to Romania - that idiotic mix up with Seaman. And then the debacle with Beckham. The squad had some potential but Hoddle - like all the other who followed - was not the man. Clough was the man LOL - but never got the chance. If you think about some of the clowns who have had the england job.

[@cameroncopus9737]

@@LPCLASSICAL Yes its always the snivelling yes man who gets the job Terry Venables should still have been managing England in 1998 and who knows what we might have achieved and fancy giving Roy Hodgson the job after he'd just flopped at Liverpool over Harry Redknapp who'd done wonders at Tottenham

[@adolforodolfo6929]

I'm a Spurs fan and loved Glenn Hoddle the player. I'm also the father of a disabled child; he was sacked for saying something that I didn't take personally but that was utterly stupid, not to mention factually untrue, and he fully deserved to be sacked.

[@pentz1]

If you want to blame anyone BLAME THE MEDIA. They were against Hoddle because he didn't play the media game with them. Hoddle absolutely the best England manager in last 50 years

[@GARYBLONDER]

An interesting video. I happen to remember it all very well. The bottom line is that in ANY job, it isn't just about your performance. WHAT YOU SAY is also important. There are simply some views that, if you say them publicly, will cost you your job, whether you're the cleaner or the CEO. In football especially, your behaviour, verbally and physically off the pitch is equally as important as on it. Hoddle never understood this, made his own position untenable and gave the FA no choice. Every manager and player who walks off a pitch needs to understand that the scrutiny doesn't end at the touchline, and any of us can get sacked from our job if we're stupid enough in our private lives.

[@paulies5407]

Should have built a team around Hoddle in the 80’s. Guy was insanely talented.

[@aaronwilson7947]

Nope. Sam Allardyce 0 loses as England manager how he got sacked ill never know

[@encorefootball]

Allardycio still waiting for a call from Real Madrid

[@attackpatterndelta8949]

I guess being a crook didn’t help his cause.

[@johnmitchell2269]

He breached the terms and conditions of his contract that's why he got sacked. He went behind the FA's back to try and do some illegal paid jobs on the side.

[@aaronwilson7947]

@@johnmitchell2269 yeah im joking mate. He only managed one match and it was a draw

[@jamiebloor2064]

@@aaronwilson7947 it was a win

[@TheMixCurator]

Hoddle was one of my Father's favourite players to watch when at Spurs (and being a Scot, that's very high praise). I'm also a big fan of his co-commentary on BT Sport. I'm old enough to remember the faith healing / new age methods and theoris that ultimately brought and end to his short reign as England manager. I do recall that the faith healer had helped Hoddle with a back (maybe?) injury years before which convinced him to bring her in to the England backroom staff. Wasn't he sacked about saying something about disabled people are paying for a wrong in their previous life? Seem to remember he also did well for Chelsea in the 90s and helped bring in a bunch of legends for the club.

[@tardy8545]

Outstanding work as always Alfie

[@francomartini4328]

Excellent as always Alfie.

[@stepheng8779]

So the bloke whose nickname was Sicknote claimed she was a success 😂😂 That's the funniest bit.

[@insertnamehere5809]

There's a reason why STAR STORIES on CHANNEL 4 called Glenn Hoddle a "bonkers cripple taunter".

[@constablekennedy7705]

What’s even more Perplexing is how Glenn Hoddle has Never been in the Frame for any Meaningful Managerial Roles since then …. ⚽️

[@sonny7194]

He still managed a couple of premier league teams after this

[@kidkieran77]

Average at Southampton, Spurs and Wolves. He was a great manager in the 90s but not in the 00s.

[@AithlynC]

What's perplexing about that? Letting your crazy get in the way of your job is a major red flag when it comes to professionalism.

[@elainekerslake6865]

Spuds fans called him the MESSIAH. Then they sacked him. Joke club!

[@Ernest_Thesiger]

24:06 Scholes said on Gary Neville's Soccerbox that being played out of position had nothing to do with his decision to retire and that Fergie played him in the same position Sven played him in in 2004.

[@culunchannel1978]

Yes its true, but put him in left wing a big mistake sven make as a manager

[@James1-9-7-8]

Great video! Personally, I’ve never forgotten Hoodle’s comments. It is often the case sadly that people with such extreme views have so much conviction in them they don’t think about the offence they cause. Imagine him saying this directly to somebody disabled! He was rightly sacked. We’ll never know what might have been…

[@dethjesta2015]

As a Swindon fan who started watching Swindon as a child shortly before Hoddle took charge I have always been a huge admirer of his. I do think you missed one point on his tactical credentials; the sweeper system that he played at Swindon and could have played with England was largely his assistant John Gorman's work. Obviously he was also Hoddles assistant at England but it would have been nice to hear Gorman get that credit - he all too frequently is only remembered only for his unsuccessful tenure as Swindon manager and not being a great tactical thinker.

[@adamjack2122]

Glenn Hoddle made a massive slur about the disabled that would still get a manager sacked in 2022. Not strange in the slightest. I still dislike him for this nearly 25 years on.

[@ly7638]

When Ray Parlour tells that story thats not how he tells it, he says he said it and they both laughed about it and moved on, it was when Hoddle had heard that he kicked him from the team. Nobody apart from Hoddle cared much about it

[@ActiveArron]

Athough it’s common knowledge his man management wasn’t great he was tactically ahead of his time. If we had him post 98 till 08ish we would of been much better

[@ActiveArron]

I think he would of done what you said in the latter part of your video. We would of had better balance and played better football

[@ianarn]

He was a fantastically talented player! Not fully utilised by England as a player and in an inconsistent Spurs team when Liverpool pretty much dominated everything. i don’t think his talents have really extended into management or commentating however. This channels creator makes a better fist of that!

[@garethdavies2145]

Great video and terrific analysis.

[@MrCaerbannog]

Something else worth noting is that Hoddle's main allies at the FA had been forced out in a separate scandal a month or so before he gave that interview. Basically, the FA needed to prove they were squeaky clean at that particular point in time, meaning that Hoddle chose the worst possible moment to commit such a major slip-up in an interview.

[@Tonyr2]

As the son of disabled parents and also having a disabled child always thought that the karma thing was a bit of a joke. It certainly never bothered me what Hoddle said in regards to disabled people. Think senior players were not happy with him and that's really the main factor in his sacking. Pity because we certainly looked at our best during the 1998 world Cup, better than the quite frankly useless lot of managers since, up until Southgate was appointed that is.

[@oldskoolmusicnostalgia]

He wasn't England's best manager aside from winning a preparation tournament which Brazil, France and Italy took as a joke. During his tenure England lost against Italy as well as Romania at the World Cup. It was very much par for the course as far as England managers are concerned: strong against the weak teams, clueless against the good ones. Maybe Keegan's difficult reign that followed makes Hoddle's record look better.

[@michaelhayes1609]

Ray Parlour asking for a "short, back and sides" is the most Ray Parlour thing I've ever heard

[@derekmullings1507]

Love your content bro. I'm thinking of trying to get a few additions to 'What's More'; 'Eddie Howe'; 'Shaw' and 'However'. :D

[@MrTreme1]

This is nowhere near as daft as Raymond Domenech leaving Robert Pires out of the French squad because he was the wrong Star Sign. That was criminally wrong to exclude him on a bunch of hocus pocus superstition. Blatant discrimination against people with common sense.

[@BadgerOfTheSea]

This took a direction I did not expect

[@powerviolentnightmare5026]

What a wild story. I'm from Central Europe and didn't know all this because I was only interested in national football. I knew he was fired but I didn't know all the things around him

[@melvinleo9427]

Best England manager.. played beautiful football. He would have done well with the golden generation

[@1bert719]

Although it ultimately came down to his bizarre comments leading to his sacking, Hoddle had already queered the pitch with the Teddy Sheringham incident and his Ill judged world cup diary that upset many key personnel. Plus at the time of his sacking England were playing poorly and stumbling to failure in a very winnable group. His last win of note a lack lustre game against lowly Luxembourg. The comments about the disabled just gave the FA the easy out. Shearers goal drought happened in the run up to euro 96 under Venables.

[@FaxanaduJohn]

Queered?

[@1bert719]

@@FaxanaduJohn It's an expression. "To queer the pitch" is to disrupt things for those in the future. Similar to blurring the lines.

[@thegloriouspyrocheems2277]

Day 18 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing rise back to the top-level football which culminated in return to Europe after 33 years and recent cup win

[@roberw1912]

I don't think the FA had a choice after the disabled comments.

[@deanbrown29]

Imagine going into work and talking that absolute nonsense, A meeting with HR would be on agenda by end of day

[@SamButler22]

Yeh, I didn't remember any of that, but I didn't really get into football until around 01/02

[@scottkeir3943]

Another brilliant video bro Love the channel

[@DidYaServe]

I like that you brought attention to this. It kills me inside when I see Hoddle on TV. He was a mean spirited man, no pun intended. Maybe he's changed but it's well worth looking into. I get the sense that you're a skeptic as I've heard you drop in a Christopher Hitchens quote before. Amen to that, brother.

[@thepenguinmafia]

Fantastic video, loved it

[@maxdecimus13]

The idea that Hoddle was the manager that would've seen great success is IMO based almost purely on one decent half of football against Argentina. We didn't breeze through in 1998, we actually lost to Romania and faced a very nervy game against Colombia. It's impossible to know how it would've gone, but my gut says we wouldn't have done much better. The 4 games he had after the Argentina game included a defeat in Sweden and a 0-0 draw at home to Bulgaria both in Euro qualifiers. Hardly suggests we were going to be anything different.

[@gamewithgreg]

How can Darren Anderton claim how good the faith healing was, his injury record was terrible 😆

[@hugonongbri8100]

Please make a video on why England never hired Brian Clough as manager

[@thomashopper8616]

Fascinating and entertaining video.

[@SteveLaneGalway]

His Reiki/Faith healer obsession played its part.

[@DonWan47]

Gazza was over the hill and LeTosser was a lazy waste of space. Hoddle was right to drop them.

[@williamlee7672]

Glenn Hoddle was an amazing player. Check out his skill and goals. He was very underrated. By the way. Darren “sicknote” Anderton getting healed. Not very well I am guessing.

[@thf3038]

Got him fit for the wc

[@davespagnol8847]

@@thf3038 The reason Anderton was always fit for international competitions in the summer was because he never played during the season!

[@Chilavertish]

Darren sick note Anderton having faith in this healer must've surely sounded alarm bells

[@larryluciano3127]

Man, I would love a separate video about David Ike.

[@davidbrooks187]

Totally agree, that Hoddle was treating terribly by the FA. His career in management started at manager of Swindon Town (earning promotion to the Premier League), Chelsea (taking them to the FA Cup final), Southampton & then Tottenham Hotspur reaching a League Cup final after inheriting a severely depleted squad from George Graham, one year into a 5 year plan and then being panicked sacked by Levy after arguing that he did not want the squad to be taken on an Asian tour for puma sponsorship in the run-up to the start of the season which caused further injuries. Hoddle pioneered the 3-5-2 system, which is still in use today. Hoddle’s tactics for England were fantastic in 1998, and we had terrible refereeing and bad luck against Argentina, holding them to a draw with 10 men for 80 minutes including a perfectly good golden goal being disallowed. England were then Favourites for the euro 2000 championship He was not sacked by the FA, but he actually resigned when the did not back him when he quoted his Christian beliefs of reincarnation that was being taken out of context by a money grubbing reporter who actually conducted the interview six months before and then thought he could make some money at a later date with it. Hoddle was wasted by England as the most talented and was skilful player for generations. He was then wasted again as manager.

[@MrMichaeljhinde]

I suppose there is the same 'what if?' around Venables if he'd continued after the highs of 96. Bit of a surprise that in spite of all the good work to that point, Hoddle was pretty much a failure at the management gigs he got after England.

[@attackpatterndelta8949]

Cos he managed shit teams like Wolves.

[@LPCLASSICAL]

Yes I still think that semi against germany was England best game of the 90s - we threw everything at the germans in extra time bar the kitchen sink and just could not get the ball over the line and predictably lost on penalties. Hoddle inherited a class side and probably deserves less credit than he has been given.

[@ronmastrio2798]

The highs of the referees beating Spain.

[@LPCLASSICAL]

@@ronmastrio2798 If spain felt the referee favoured England they should have made sure to win the penalty shoot out. One of the very few penalty shoot outs England have won.

[@acehighjohn1759]

Quality content Alfie. Wp Sir.

[@Mac-rf5wf]

"Hoddle had a great fondness for technical players". Yet he didn't take Matt Le Tissier to the 1998 World Cup

[@garybarnes556]

Because Paul Scholes

[@michaelaradas1343]

I love this channel.

[@metallicbigtoe3949]

Ray Parlour said that she laughed when he said "just a shortback and sides", the problem arose when Hoddle found out about it.

[@7bombarie]

Half an hour Glenn Hoddle without mentioning "Hoddle & Waddle". That's a feat. (There was a picture though).

[@messi8921]

If only we had 1998 Hoddle now.

[@patrickfrondigoun4145]

He drew 34 games at Wolves with the best squad in the Championship at the time

[@niksv4165]

Day 490: Ways to fix VAR with your suggestions

[@jimbob-robob]

Good stuff Alfie 👍🏻🖖✊

[@FlatMetal22]

Parlour and Gazza ripping the piss out of drury 'short back and sides' and ghosts making funny faces at gazza 🤣🤣🤣🤣 pure class

[@rickenfatania]

A back three only works if you have mobile wing backs. Ashley Cole fits the bill but Beckham as a RWB is negligible when you have Gary Neville available. I'd move Beckham to midfield with Scholes and Gerrard, dropping Lampard and rotating him with Scholes and Beckham.

[@theopinionator6313]

Glenn Hoddle's biggest mistake is that he didn't shut his mouth. The recent Gueye controversy over the Ligue 1 Gay Pride number stuff shows that footballers have some more unsavoury views sometimes. As cynical as it is to say, the best thing for a footballer's reputation and career is to shut up. Even Marcus Rashford, who I greatly admire, has suffered some press backlash.

[@jamesquinton7070]

To be fair though it seems that nowadays footballers like Gueye are forced to speak in favour of something they don’t believe in

[@electronotch]

@@jamesquinton7070 I know this much. When players didn't take the knee two years ago all I saw everywhere was widespread accusations of racism or 'defending' racism and extreme condemnation. Gueye's refusal was widely defended or even endorsed by many, and belief systems, a choice in life, something you might be born 'into' but not born with, excused for it. Tha Nazis had 'beliefs' about jews. White South Africans had ''beliefs' about black people. Then we saw Hoddle's ''belief'. These types of beliefs are thankfully overwhelmingly condemned yet beliefs about people who happen to be gay are so often excused in comparison.

[@jamesquinton7070]

@@electronotch either way, if your forced to campaign for something surely that takes away from the significance of your campaigning. Much better to let people make their own choices, then when people do campaign, you know they’re really being serious, rather than just bowing to pressure

[@electronotch]

@@jamesquinton7070 I agree in terms of being forced, but when I see so many people, even in the UK, accuse others of being racist for choosing not to campaign against racism, but then defend peoples' choice not to campaign against homophobia then all I see is double standards and pointlessness in the entire idea.

[@jamesquinton7070]

@@electronotch yep I’d agree that’s hypocritical. I’m not saying that

[@owenfitzgerald5928]

I would be interested in a video ranking player managers Alfie can decide what league(s), tournaments or what years he only looks at so it obviously isnt just every player coach in every tournament in all time I think that would be a bit of a long video to make and watch but tbh I dont know much about player coachs Dalglish, Gullit and Rooney are the only ones I can think of were player coaches if I remember correct

[@jez2466]

You are assuming that Beckham could have played as a wing back. He spent his whole career with Gary Neville covering for him at right back.