Roy Hodgson
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That's a really good question.
I mean, I think that you have to be careful when you try to rank experiences in your life, let alone your coaching or playing career, because it seems to me always that the further back you go,
the better things seem to have been and you know one is always more critical if you like of a current period than you would have been in a period 30, 40 years ago because unfortunately you remember the good things, the good times.
But I am very satisfied, even proud of the job that not only I and the coaching staff and in particular the players
the whole of the club has done really to make certain that we have been able to keep Crystal Palace in the league because it's not easy as everybody knows and we haven't spent an awful lot of money in that time.
We haven't stayed in the league by splashing the cash.
We've done it by working very hard and getting together a very good group of players and then believing in them.
Oh, dear.
I think I would prefer to think about my career in terms of periods of time rather than individual highlights because the individual highlights they are what add spice to your career but they don't really define your career.
So I think defining moments for me were obviously the first job of all when you're thrown in as a 28 or 28 and a half year old to work with senior players many of whom or several who were older than myself
and achieving the sort of success I was able to do there.
Moving on, of course, to Malmo, those five years of continued success with quite a few really good moments in football, in the Spurs with the league football.
And then, of course, I had to go on to Switzerland, which was another very good period.
And strangely enough, I didn't honestly think that when I came back to England 12 years ago that,
these 12 years could be anything like they've been, because they really have been quite fantastic.
First with Fulham, Liverpool, West Brom, and then crowning that, being given the England job, and then getting the job at Crystal Palace.
So I think that it's really very, very difficult for me, although this is a long-winded answer, to give you the answer which would
you know, encapsulate a career.
But I'm certain when I look back, there'll be individual moments that I'll remember.
And sometimes I get reminded of them.