Roy Hodgson

Roy Hodgson has been reappointed as Crystal Palace manager until the end of the season, two years after leaving the club.

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Hodgson returns to manage his boyhood club for a second stint after Palace took the decision to sack Patrick Vieira last week following a run of 12 games ...

"He's proven himself a very good coach down the years, but it has been about solidity and keeping clean sheets, which is something Vieira didn't struggle with either. "We all thought he'd finished and maybe he did as well. "So, a lot of results were close. "They say the table doesn't lie but it does in a way this season in terms of teams that are around 12th, they don't have time to take risks. He spoke so highly about Wilfried Zaha and the players that are there now. "I said, 'Bielsa, for the last 10 games?' That's not how he works.

Crystal Palace have reappointed Roy Hodgson as their new manager after he agreed a deal to take charge of the club until the end of the season.

Palace chairman Steve Parish said: “I would like to welcome Roy and Ray back to the club. [Leicester City](https://theathletic.com/football/team/leicester-city/) on April 1, followed by games against [Leeds United](https://theathletic.com/football/team/leeds-united/), [Southampton](https://theathletic.com/football/team/southampton/) and [Everton](https://theathletic.com/football/team/everton/). [Blackburn Rovers](https://theathletic.com/football/team/blackburn-rovers/), [Fulham](https://theathletic.com/football/team/fulham/), [Liverpool](https://theathletic.com/football/team/liverpool/), [West Bromwich Albion](https://theathletic.com/football/team/west-bromwich-albion/) and Palace, as well as the national sides of Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and Finland. Our sole objective now is to start winning matches, and to get the points necessary to ensure our Premier League status. [Watford](https://theathletic.com/football/team/watford/) in January 2022 but confirmed his departure after their relegation to the [Championship](https://theathletic.com/football/efl-championship/) was sealed and he said he did not expect to take another managerial job in the Premier League. [Arsenal](https://theathletic.com/football/team/arsenal/) before the international break, takes the role of assistant manager.

Roy Hodgson has been coaxed out of retirement by Crystal Palace, with the ex-England boss returning for a second spell at Selhurst Park.

[part company with Patrick Vieira](https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/make-a-copy-not-for-publication-goal-official-news-story-template/blt5aa0395b0a460caa) after seeing the Frenchman oversee an alarming run of form that has kept the south London club locked in a Premier League relegation battle. Our sole objective now is to start winning matches, and to get the points necessary to ensure our Premier League status. We are obviously in a very challenging period but we believe that Roy’s and Ray’s experience, knowledge of the club and players, alongside Paddy can help fulfil the immediate requirement of keeping us in the league.”

The decision to reappoint the manager who left Palace in 2021 has divided opinion at all levels of the club.

He can also point to the chaos behind the scenes at Watford as being too difficult to overcome in his assignment last season. He took that opportunity to ask manager Marco Silva for an invite to their home match against [Southampton](https://theathletic.com/football/team/southampton/) in which they held a tribute for club legend and [World Cup](https://theathletic.com/football/world-cup/) winner George Cohen after his passing before Christmas. Survival will offer the chance to rebuild in the summer under a younger, longer-term appointment. But in turn, there will be those who appreciate his attention to detail and knowledge from a career which spans over 40 years. Hodgson spoke alongside another former Palace manager, Alan Pardew, at a Leaders Sport Business conference in Abu Dhabi earlier this month and, as part of his work as a patron for the disability organisation Level Playing Field, he launched their Unite For Access campaign film in February. In 2017, Palace were in disarray, trying to play in a new way but with a hopelessly unsuited squad. That is not his fault, but rather a reflection of how expectation has, understandably, grown at Palace. It did not sound like a man pining for a return to the dugout, let alone the intense pressure of a Premier League relegation battle. But it underlined that he still had a deep affection for the club where his playing career had started in 1965. “It’s not something I’m punting for and certainly I don’t think I’ll be in charge of a Premier League team,” Hodgson said last May when collecting a CBE for services to football at Buckingham Palace. Yet Parish will know the optics of firing a manager who had been hired to oversee a progressive, transformational project and replacing him with a 75-year-old whose pragmatic approach had disenchanted many supporters by the end of his previous tenure are awful. Under-21s coach Paddy McCarthy, who had overseen Sunday’s 4-1 defeat at [Arsenal](https://theathletic.com/football/team/arsenal/), will also be part of Hodgson’s staff.

Hodgson, 75, replaces Patrick Vieira who left Palace on Friday following a run of 12 games without a win that left the club three points above the relegation ...

"I would like to welcome Roy and Ray back to the club," Palace chairman Steve Parish said. "Our sole objective now is to start winning matches, and to get the points necessary to ensure our Their last league victory came on Dec.

Premier League clubs who panic have a habit of making ultra-conservative choices, but this one beggars belief.

I don't think I shall be putting my name forward anymore for further sorties in the world of Premier League football. Three out of the following five games were lost, however, Palace played both Liverpool and Manchester City in that difficult run. It showed as well that we need to improve and there are still a lot of things to improve to turn those performances into a win.” I was quite happy with the performances of the last couple of games we played. That is the frustration. “The Premier League, when you look at the table, has been challenging and tough.