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Glenn Hoddle Glenn Hoddle ( born 27 October 1957 ) is an English former football player and manager . He currently works as a television pundit and commentator for ITV Sport and BT Sport . He played as a midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur , Monaco , Chelsea and Swindon Town and at international level for England . In 2007 , he was inducted into the National Football Museum Hall of Fame , which cited him as one of the most gifted and creative English footballers of his generation , exhibiting sublime balance and close control , unrivalled passing and vision and extraordinary shooting ability , both from open play and set pieces . He was also known for his tactical intelligence and work-rate . He has been manager of Swindon Town ( earning promotion to the Premier League ) , Chelsea ( taking them to the FA Cup final ) , Southampton , Tottenham Hotspur ( reaching a League Cup final ) and Wolverhampton Wanderers . He managed England to the second round of the 1998 FIFA World Cup , where they lost to Argentina on penalties . He was dismissed from the England job in 1999 for a newspaper interview in which he was widely interpreted as saying that disabled people are affected by karma from past lives . He said that his words were misconstrued , misunderstood and misinterpreted and that disabled people had his overwhelming support , care , consideration and dedication . Early life . Hoddle was born on 27 October 1957 in Hayes , Middlesex to Derek Hoddle and Teresa Roberts . Soon after , the family moved to Harlow , Essex . He attended Burnt Mill School in Harlow . He has been supporting Tottenham Hotspur since he was eight , and his favourite player was Martin Chivers . He first came to the attention of Spurs when Chivers and Ray Evans went to present prizes at a local school cup final and noticed the potential of the 11-year-old schoolboy , and on Chivers recommendation he was invited to train with the club at Tottenhams practice ground in Cheshunt . At the age of 15 , Hoddle played for Harlow-based Sunday league club Longmans alongside his father . Hoddles uncle , Dave , was part of the Stansted team that won the 1984 FA Vase . Playing career . Tottenham Hotspur . Hoddle joined the club as a junior when he was 12 , and signed for the club as an apprentice on 17 April 1974 . He successfully overcame knee problems in his early teens and collected eight England Youth caps , the first of these on 18 March 1975 against Spain . He made his Spurs first-team debut as a 17-year-old substitute for Cyril Knowles against Norwich City on 30 August 1975 , a game that ended 2–2 . Hoddle was forced to wait until 21 February 1976 to start a First Division match and immediately announced his arrival with the winning goal , a spectacular strike past Stoke City and England goalkeeper Peter Shilton . He flourished under the management of Keith Burkinshaw and despite the clubs relegation to the Second Division in 1976–77 after 27 seasons of First Division football , a Hoddle-inspired Spurs side won promotion to the top flight at the first attempt . As Tottenhams transitional phase continued , Hoddles international career began on 15 December 1976 in an Under-21 friendly fixture against Wales . He would collect another eleven caps at that level , and play twice for the England B team prior to scoring on his full international debut against Bulgaria on 22 November 1979 . The 1979–80 campaign heralded the emergence of Hoddle as a top-class player ; the 22-year-old midfielder scored 19 goals in 41 league appearances and was awarded the PFA Young Player of the Year award at the end of the season . In 1981 , he starred as Spurs won the FA Cup for the sixth time , defeating Manchester City after a replay . In the following season Tottenham retained the FA Cup ( Hoddle scored in both the Final and Final replay ) against Queens Park Rangers and finished the League campaign in fourth place , the clubs best league position since 1971 . Hoddle performed as the midfield fulcrum in many of these successes and also contributed magnificently as the team reached the final of the League Cup , losing 3–1 to Liverpool , and the semi-final stage of the European Cup Winners Cup . During the summer of 1982 , Hoddle played in two of Englands matches in the opening group phase of the FIFA World Cup , starting against Kuwait after a substitute appearance in a 2–0 victory over Czechoslovakia . Hoddles involvement in the following three seasons was limited by a number of niggling injury problems ( he started only 76 of a possible 126 league matches ) but nevertheless , Hoddle proved to be the architect behind the teams 1984 UEFA Cup triumph despite missing the Final due to fitness concerns . In October 1983 , he helped Spurs win 6–2 on aggregate against a Feyenoord Rotterdam side containing Johan Cruyff . Cruyff was dismissive of Hoddle before their first match , but after Hoddles performance , Cruyff swapped shirts with Hoddle as a sign of respect . Spurs came close to further honours in the next three seasons , reaching third place in the First Division and the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup in 1984–85 and another FA Cup Final in 1987 , losing 3–2 to Coventry City , the only time the North London club has experienced defeat in the final of the famous knock-out competition . The unexpected loss to the Midlands side was Hoddles last match for Spurs as newly appointed AS Monaco manager Arsène Wenger brought him to the principality for a fee of £750,000 . Between 1975 and 1987 , the gifted playmaker scored 110 goals in 490 first-team matches in all competitions , only four players ( Steve Perryman , Pat Jennings , Gary Mabbutt and Cyril Knowles ) have made more appearances in a Spurs shirt . At international level , Hoddle won 44 caps for England during his Tottenham career . AS Monaco . Hoddle announced in 1987 that he would be leaving Tottenham Hotspur at the end of the season to pursue a career overseas where his style of play would be appreciated by continental managers and supporters , and to play European level football with English clubs banned after the Heysel disaster . He joined AS Monaco alongside George Weah and fellow Englishman Mark Hateley and immediately inspired the club to the 1988 Ligue 1 championship , its first league title in six seasons . Hoddle was voted the Best Foreign Player in French football and helped to guide the team to the quarter-finals of the European Cup in the 1988–89 campaign . Arsène Wenger , later the manager of Arsenal , was the coach who brought him to Monaco . However , a severe knee injury curtailed Hoddles career at the highest level and in November 1990 , the 33-year-old left the club by mutual consent , having helped to improve the standing of English footballers in foreign countries . During his three and a half-year spell in France , Hoddle won a further nine England caps , making his international farewell against the Soviet Union in June 1988 . He returned to England and signed for Chelsea on a non-contract basis to regain his fitness , leaving Stamford Bridge in March 1991 without playing a senior match to become player-manager of Swindon Town in the Second Division . England international career . Hoddle made his debut alongside Kevin Reeves in Englands Euro 80 qualifying tie against Bulgaria on 22 November 1979 , scoring in a 2–0 win at Wembley . He scored in his third appearance against Australia on 31 May 1980 in a friendly in Sydney . His third goal came in his fifth appearance on 25 March 1981 in a game against Spain at Wembley , which England lost 2–1 . He reached the 10-cap point of his career on 27 April 1982 in the British Home Championship clash with Wales in Cardiff , which England won 1–0 . By this stage of his international career he had scored four goals . He was included in the 1982 and 1986 FIFA World Cup squads , and England reached the quarter-finals against Argentina in the latter . Hoddle also featured prominently in the European Championship squads of 1980 and 1988 , making his 53rd and final international appearance in the final group game of Euro 88 , in a 3–1 defeat to the Soviet Union in West Germany . He had scored eight goals for the England senior side in a career stretching nine years , the last of his international goals coming on 23 April 1986 in a 2–1 friendly win over Scotland at Wembley . Managerial career . Swindon Town . When Hoddle arrived at Swindon in March 1991 , the club was struggling in the aftermath of a financial scandal which had seen them stripped of promotion to the First Division at the end of the previous season , a controversy which had negatively impacted the teams league form as they had been forced to sell several key players including midfielder Alan McLoughlin . Hoddle prevented Swindon from slipping into the Third Division and further improvement throughout the 1991–92 season saw the Wiltshire club finish in eighth place , just missing out on a play-off place . They had briefly led the table in October . Swindon reached the playoffs of the rebranded Division One in 1993 and beat Leicester City 4–3 at Wembley , and were then promoted to the Premier League . Hoddle scored Swindons first goal of the final . By the time he guided Swindon to promotion , Hoddle was already been linked with managerial vacancies at bigger clubs . Just days after guiding Swindon to promotion , he accepted the offer to manage Chelsea and was succeeded at Swindon by his assistant John Gorman , who had been widely expected to follow him to Stamford Bridge . Chelsea . In June 1993 , Hoddle became player-manager of Chelsea . His assistant at Chelsea was the former Tottenham manager Peter Shreeves , and they reached the FA Cup final in Hoddles first season , where they lost 4–0 to Manchester United . But United had done the double , and consolation for their failure to win the trophy came in the form of a European Cup Winners Cup place - Chelseas first European campaign for more than 20 years . Chelsea finished 14th in the league that season , memorably managing to inflict two of just four league defeats on the double winners that season , winning 1–0 at Stamford Bridge in September and 1–0 at Old Trafford in March , with Gavin Peacock scoring both times . Chelsea reached the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners competition in 1994–95 and lost by a single goal to Real Zaragoza , who went on to beat Arsenal in the final . Hoddle guided Chelsea to the FA Cup Semi-finals in 1995–96 , but was unable to take them beyond 11th place in the Premiership – they had occupied this final position three times in four years . He did establish them as a force in cup competitions and made them capable of attracting top-class players – such as Ruud Gullit – to the club . Other notable signings were Mark Hughes , Dan Petrescu , Gavin Peacock , David Rocastle and Mark Stein . England . Hoddles three-year reign at Chelsea came to an end in the summer of 1996 , after he had accepted the offer to manage the England national football team in place of Terry Venables after Englands Euro 96 campaign , where they finished as semi-finalists as the host nation . He guided England to qualification for the 1998 World Cup , securing the teams automatic qualification with a 0–0 draw in Rome against Italy . He later caused controversy by omitting Paul Gascoigne from the squad and installing supposed faith healer Eileen Drewery as part of the England coaching staff , which led to the team being dubbed The Hod Squad . They reached the second round of the 1998 tournament , losing on penalties to Argentina . Hoddle came under criticism after a disappointing start to the Euro 2000 qualifying campaign , leading to speculation that he would be sacked - particularly if England failed to qualify . However , Hoddles 60% win rate during his spell as manager is only bettered by Sir Alf Ramsey , Fabio Capello and Sam Allardyce . Dismissal from England job . On 30 January 1999 , with the England team preparing for Euro 2000 , and amidst the fall-out from the previous seasons World Cup , Hoddle gave an interview to Matt Dickinson of The Times newspaper in an attempt to defend himself against his critics ( over issues such as Eileen Drewery and his ideology . ) and show a strong front for the remainder of the qualifiers . Dickinsons interview reported that Hoddle had a controversial belief that the disabled , and others , are being punished for sins in a former life . Hoddles comments were criticised by several politicians including Sports Minister Tony Banks and Prime Minister Tony Blair . Public opinion , based upon the immediate media furore resulted in ( according to one BBC poll ) 90% of respondents believing Hoddle should not continue as England manager . The BBC survey showed that many considered his comments insensitive to disabled people , but others defended his right to express his religious beliefs by claiming that to sack him would constitute religious discrimination . Hoddle said that he was unwilling to resign . He stated his words were misinterpreted and pointed out his contributions and commitment to organisations helping disabled people . The Football Association terminated Hoddles contract on 2 February 1999 , which was welcomed by representatives of disabled groups . The disabled rights campaigner Lord Ashley however , while criticising Hoddles views , defended his right to express them , likening the campaign against Hoddle to a witchhunt and considered Hoddles dismissal a sad day for British tolerance and freedom of speech Some writers considered the remarks were used as a pretext to get rid of him . Hoddle apologised for the offence that had been caused , stating it had never been his intention and continued to fundraise for disabled groups after being dismissed . Southampton . Hoddle was back in football within a year as Southampton manager , succeeding Dave Jones , who had been suspended to concentrate on clearing his name in connection with child abuse charges . Although these allegations were later found to be false , Jones was not reinstated and Hoddle continued as Southamptons manager , having arrived on the South Coast in January 2000 . Hoddle kept the Saints in the Premier League with a 15th-place finish , but left in March 2001 to return to Tottenham as manager . Southampton were on course for a 10th-place finish – their highest since 1995 – when Hoddle left . Tottenham Hotspur . Hoddle was appointed manager of Tottenham in March 2001 with John Gorman as his assistant , following the sacking of George Graham . His first match in charge was the FA Cup semi-final against north London rivals Arsenal which Spurs lost 2–1 . The following year , Tottenham reached the League Cup final in February 2002 ; after winning 5–1 against Hoddles former club Chelsea in the semi-final second leg , Spurs were the favourites but they lost 2–1 to Blackburn Rovers . The clubs promising early season form ( which saw Hoddle voted Premier League Manager of the Month for October 2001 ) dwindled away and they finished ninth in the Premiership . Spurs began the 2002–03 season in fine form and Hoddle was named Premiership Manager of the Month for August 2002 after they ended the month top of the league . They finished in a disappointing 10th place at the end of the season . The pressure began to build up on Hoddle and he was sacked in September 2003 after a slow start to the season , in which the team picked up just four points from their opening six league games . His final game in charge was a 3–1 loss to his former side Southampton . Wolverhampton Wanderers . Hoddle was linked with a return to Southampton in March 2004 , but opposition from supporters meant chairman Rupert Lowe pursued alternative targets and ultimately selected Paul Sturrock instead . Instead he returned to management on 7 December 2004 with Wolverhampton Wanderers , again succeeding Dave Jones . Wolves lost only one of their remaining 25 games but failed to reach the play-offs because 15 of those games had been draws . In the 2005–06 season , drawing too many games again cost Wolves a top-six finish , with the club drawing 19 of their 46 league games . Wolves finished seventh , eight points off the playoffs . Wolves fans turned against Hoddle and there were chants against him during the last home game of the season against Watford . The board kept faith with Hoddle , but he stepped down on 1 July 2006 , stating differing expectations between himself and the club as the reason for his departure . In his time with Wolverhampton Wanderers , the club drew 34 league games in his 76 games in charge , spanning over two seasons . Football academy . By January 2008 , Hoddle was attempting to raise the capital to form the Glenn Hoddle Academy based in Spain . The aim of the academy is to give another chance to young players released by football clubs in England to become professional players . Ikechi Anya was his first player at the academy to get a professional contract at a club , with Sevilla Atlético in Spain . In June 2011 , it was announced that The Glenn Hoddle Academy had linked up with English Conference North side Hyde . The Academy had previously enjoyed a link with the Spanish fourth-tier side Jerez Industrial , providing their entire squad and coaches , but fell out in a dispute over cash . Management offers . Hoddle said in December 2013 that he been offered a chance to return to management no less than 26 times in seven years , but commented that he would not return to management until his academy was able to run itself . In April 2014 he said he had come close to taking over from André Villas-Boas at Tottenham , before the job was given to Tim Sherwood . I did have talks with Daniel Levy and the club , Hoddle said . He wanted a little bit of advice and a bit of a sounding board for himself . [ I said ] I am there for you if you want me to take it to the end of the season and then we will have a little look at it then , I would be prepared to do that . I wouldnt do it for any other club for that short period of time . It was just that it is in my DNA . I have loved my time at other clubs , I really have , but being a Spurs supporter since I was eight , going there very young , it is in my blood . In August 2014 , Hoddle was appointed first team coach at Queens Park Rangers under Harry Redknapp . However , on 3 February 2015 , Redknapp resigned , following which Hoddle also left the club . In June 2016 , after Englands 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgsons subsequent resignation , Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed . Media career . Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching . He has worked for ESPN , ITV Sport and BT Sport . Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit . Since then , he has worked with ITV for the 2014 FIFA World Cup , Euro 2016 and the 2018 World Cup . He also does punditry and co-commentary for BT Sport on their telecasts of the Premier League , FA Cup , Champions League and Europa League . Singing career . In May 1987 , Hoddle released the pop single Diamond Lights , which reached number 12 in the UK Singles Chart . It was a duet with his Spurs and England teammate Chris Waddle . The pairs follow up single Its Goodbye only managed to reach 92 in the British charts . In 2021 , Hoddle appeared as a contestant on the second series of the British version of The Masked Singer , masked as the Grandfather Clock . He finished in 9th place . Personal life . In 1986 , while on holiday in Israel , Hoddle said that he had an experience which led him to become a born-again Christian . Hoddle has been married twice , firstly to Christine Ann Stirling ( 1979–1998 ) and subsequently to Vanessa Colburn ( 2000–2015 ) . He has three children with his first wife ( Zara , Jamie and Zoe ) . In 1996 , his younger brother , former footballer Carl Hoddle , overdosed on paracetamol , but recovered . In March 2008 , Carl Hoddle died at the age of 40 after collapsing suddenly from a brain aneurysm . Glenn Hoddle was reportedly devastated by the death of his brother . On 27 October 2018 , his 61st birthday , Hoddle suffered a cardiac arrest in a London TV studio and was taken to hospital for emergency heart surgery . The Guardian reported that he had been close to death and was saved by the actions of an employee at BT Sport , Simon Daniels , who knew how to use a defibrillator . On 23 November 2018 , Hoddle left St Bartholomews Hospital to recuperate at home after his hospital treatment . In March 2021 , Hoddle said he was devastated when he heard the news that Glenn Roeder had died aged 65 , describing him as a lovely guy and a really good coach . Roeder worked as a coach under Hoddle during his time as England manager . Honours . Source : Player . Tottenham Hotspur - FA Cup : 1980–81 , 1981–82 - FA Charity Shield : 1981 ( shared ) - UEFA Cup : 1983–84 AS Monaco - Division 1 : 1987–88 Individual - PFA Young Player of the Year : 1979–80 - PFA Second Division Team of the Year : 1977–78 - PFA First Division Team of the Year : 1979–80 , 1981–82 , 1983–84 , 1985–86 , 1986–87 - PFA Team of the Century ( 1977–1996 ) : 2007 - Division 1 Foreign Player of the Year : 1987–88 - English Football Hall of Fame Inductee : 2007 Player Manager . Swindon Town - Football League First Division play-offs : 1993 Chelsea - FA Cup runner-up : 1993–94 Manager . Tottenham Hotspur - Football League Cup runner-up : 2001–02 Individual - Premier League Manager of the Month : October 2001 , August 2002 External links . - Hoddle quotes - Hoddles football academy - Glenn Hoddle Collection at the National Football Collection - Stats at neilbrown.com - The Telegraph Glenn Hoddle Factfile .