Roy Hodgson, Crystal Palace Manager Cancelli’s News Conference Due to Poor health
Crystal Palace say manager Roy Hodgson was "taken ill" during training on Thursday morning.
Palace
cancelled a news conference after the 76-year-old fell ill.
It was
widely reported on Thursday morning that Palace are set to sack Hodgson, with
the club 15th in the Premier League and five points clear of the relegation
zone.
Palace face
Everton at Goodison Park in the Premier League on Monday.
BBC Sport
understands that Hodgson is set to lose his job, with former Eintracht
Frankfurt boss Oliver Glasner a strong favourite to replace him.
Hodgson took
charge of his 200th match as Palace manager earlier this week, but his side
were beaten 3-1 at Selhurst Park by Chelsea.
The club has
won three league games since their victory over Manchester United at Old
Trafford in September and have lost 10 of their past 16 top-flight matches.
The former
England boss is in his second stint in charge of Palace, having returned for
the final 10 games of last season when he signed a short-term deal to take over
from Patrick Vieira.
He led the
club to 11th in the table before agreeing to continue to manage the side for
the 2023-24 campaign.
Supporters
have displayed banners in recent weeks calling for Hodgson to be sacked and
shared their frustration with how the club is being run.
They voiced
their displeasure when he substituted Eberechi Eze after 64 minutes in their FA
Cup third-round defeat against Everton last month, with some
supporters at Goodison Park chanting "you don't know what you're
doing".
Hodgson was
also criticised by some Palace fans for sending on Michael Olise as a
substitute at half-time against Brighton with the team 3-0 down, despite
the winger struggling with injury.
Olise lasted
11 minutes before suffering a recurrence of a hamstring problem.
Glasner, 49,
lifted the Europa League with Frankfurt in 2022 during his first season in
charge when they beat Scottish side Rangers on penalties in the final.
After
guiding Frankfurt to the knockout stages of the Champions League last year, the
Austrian left the club at the end of the season with a year still left on his
contract, following a 10-match winless run in the Bundesliga.
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