24 Apr 2020 10:34:58
Hi ed01, 2 questions don't know we're to ask what is your opinion of Terry venables ad manager
And Glenn hoddle as a player and manager

Guilty pleasure hoddle was my first ever favourite player.

{Ed001's Note - Venables was ok, at the right club. He wasn't the best tactician, but he knew how to get most players to perform for him. However he did have favourites at the expense of often better players.

Glenn Hoddle as a player was a fantastic technician but a lazy get. If he had put in a bit of effort he would have been world class, but he lacked the willingness to work. He was the Paul Pogba of his day, all the ability wasted on a man who would rather strut around looking good than doing what was best for the team. Technically he is probably the best English player, maybe of all time. However that laziness meant he was very reliant on the quality around him to enable him to perform. Wonderful to watch, but only half the player he should have been.

As a manager, he was again all about technique but he had the sense to build his teams in a way that allowed the technical players to get the time and space he wanted in his day. However, at the top end of the game he struggled to get the players on side, they thought his dalliance with Eileen Drewery bizarre. They were also annoyed at the way he looked down his nose at them for not being as talented as he was and his constant interference in coaching sessions by showing them how it should have been done got up the noses. So it is likely that his career as manager in the long term would have been short term lifts to a side followed by a rapid decline as the players turned on him. At lower league level he could avoid that simply because of who he was and the hero worship that accompanied it.}

1.) 24 Apr 2020
24 Apr 2020 12:31:23
If you read Dennis Wise autobiography, he is very critical of Hoddle as a manager.

But Hoddle was the start of Chelsea becoming a professional football club rather than a social club.

2.) 24 Apr 2020
24 Apr 2020 15:09:17
I was told a long time ago Wisey wasn’t happy with GH after he felt he was let down.

3.) 24 Apr 2020
24 Apr 2020 17:54:17
Thanks for replies Ed appreciate mate hope your all good stay safe.