Roy Hodgson has given his verdict on Everton’s survival hopes and believes their previous manager Frank Lampard had an impossible task at Goodison Park.
Following his Crystal Palace side’s goalless draw with the Blues at Selhurst Park, Hodgson told the ECHO: “I am very sad to see Everton in the position they’re in at the moment but I think since Sean Dyche’s arrival, the way he’s gone about trying to put things right I feel more confident. I think Frank (Lampard) was dealt a terrible hand to be honest with you.
“I think for Frank... I don’t even think it would be possible with his football philosophy and the way he wants to play to get what Sean Dyche has got out of the players. In my humble view, it was a move that has worked well for the club but I do think the club has got a lot of things to still sort out and I would desperately like them to sort those things out.
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“If you ask me would I be happy to see Everton survive, I would, but then I’ve got to be careful because I don’t really want to see any of the ones who are down at the bottom go down. I’ve got contacts at Southampton and Leicester but somebody has got to go down.
“The way Everton went about trying to get something from the game today has got to be a credit to Sean Dyche and the club I suppose for realising, ‘we need a Sean Dyche to get us sorted out’.”
Despite being a former Liverpool manager, Hodgson has long-standing Everton connections through his Merseyside-born wife Sheila, who he previously quipped was the reason behind him going back into the game aged 75 because he was getting under her feet at home.
He said: “My wife left Everton when she was 10 but I don’t think she’d wish to big that up but when your father is telling you from the age of three or four up to 10 that Everton are the best team in the world, a little bit of it stays with you I guess.”
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