Quote Originally Posted by Jordi Culé View Post
You're being a lot unfair on Bobby Robson. His Ipswich team were a good watch and he took a provincial club to European honours. He took Ronaldo to PSV and won the league in Netherlands, then Portugal with Porto. Won a couple of cups with Barcelona. I think he got lucky in Italia 90 but a fit Bryan Robson alongside Gascoigne would've been interesting.

As England manager, I think Hoddle had his most consistent playing period under Robson which included playing in Mexico 86.
Not having a go at his club career but, much like Southgate, he was very pragmatic as England manager, particularly in tournament finals. That is undeniable.

In fact, he started the tournament 442 then went to 5
at the back in the last group game to ensure a point and stuck with it.