Roy Hodgson wields the Croydon Way to halt Manchester City juggernaut | Jonathan Wilson

Crystal Palace produced a masterclass in absorbing pressure and attacking the league leaders’ key weaknesses to bring Pep Guardiola’s winning streak to an end

The technical areas were a study in difference. On one side was the pencil thin, shaven-headed figure of Pep Guardiola, arms folded, sleek in his black bomber jacket. In the other were two figures dressed in black but that was the only similarity between them. That football could have produced two such disparate groups, practically separate species, is testament to its infinite richness.

There was Roy Hodgson, hands thrust in the pockets of his padded car coat, fretting and shrugging like an anxious owl, carefully wiping his feet every time he left the grassy area for the track. And beside him, behind him, around him, flapping about in a waterproof jacket, his assistant Ray Lewington, hair awry, arms thrusting with instruction. From behind he resembled some sort of demonic cross between Game of Thrones’ Alliser Thorne and Father Jack.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/dec/31/roy-hodgson-manchester-city-crystal-palace-pep-guardiola