I can believe he played non-league.

Could I ask just how good Bob Houghton was? Conflicting profiles suggest he was a midfielder or a striker and then there’s the discrepancy about his scoring record. Read a lot about him as a coach and how he and Hodgson revived Swedish football. Believe he’s still coaching the Indian national side.

Roy’s mentor, Bob Houghton fits the same bill, I believe, his Wikipedia playing stats as a hotshot being pure fiction. [with daft internal logic too -- at age 23, with a fantasised 138 league goals in 177 appearances for ourselves and Brighton he gets snapped up by.....]

this popped up on facebook feed. Quality!!

I’d happily sign it on his behalf if it give Roy the hurry up. The word from the Basel pre-game press conference was that the contract was ‘in the hands of the lawyers’ and that he ‘didn’t expect any problems’. Goodness knows how long they’ll take with it.

In his press dealings, Roy’s played a very smart game and perhaps the European success will convince MAF to give him some more money to spend (either after Christmas or in the summer)?

It is indeed a cracking interview, the latest of several of him in the broadsheets, each of which has come up with fresh material. Not only has he plenty to say, he is clearly on a mission to divulge, presumably making up for lost time when he was a domestic unknown. By this stage, for someone who is modest (as we are again reminded) Roy has nevertheless managed to communicate plenty of self-advertisement by words as well as deeds. That is not a criticism; he has a proper sense of his own worth and tells it as it is: a worth deriving from experienced professionalism rather than `special oneness,’ hence various others share it. He mentions big names in that connection, not unreasonably.
No daft claims but no false modesty either. Good stuff.
If life is so perfect at Fulham, you know what to do old bean, don’t you.