Roy Hodgson has been here before, and it did not end well. When he departed Crystal Palace two years ago, he announced his retirement from management too. “I've seen so many people retire with all the fanfare blazing only to surface again somewhere in a fairly short period of time,” he said. “I'd prefer not to do that.”
Yet he did, emerging at Watford a few months later. He took over from Claudio Ranieri in January with the team 19th in the Premier League, and left them in May with the team still 19th in the Premier League, relegated after collecting only two wins from 18 games in charge.
