Another reason to dislike Steve Hodge

[Alex77]

Once a c unt.......

Now a rich one!

[simboy]

I was quite young when Hodge went to Spurs , why does it carry so much hatred ?

I've asked this before. I understand it, but I think it can never be visceral if you didn't feel it the first time. Something to do with a backpass, I think.

The first goal in this.
https://youtu.be/zRgf2OWPN64

The night before it was reported on the local news that he wanted a transfer because he feared for his England place if he stayed. The best player in the side was barracked before and during the game, chants of "Hodgey must go" rang out from the Holte (at least as much as they can with a sub-15,000 gate). The backpass, at the time, felt for all the world as though it was deliberate. Only he will know either way for sure, but with the passage of thirty-six years, I can see that maybe it was a rush of blood.

No it wasn't.

[Dick Edwards]

I was quite young when Hodge went to Spurs , why does it carry so much hatred ?

Hodge was another of our 'play well for your country and use it as an excuse to engineer a transfer' wankers. He had an unexpectedly good World Cup in 1986 having initially just been a squad player and came back from Mexico thinking he was Billy Big Bollocks.
He wanted a transfer to Tottingham, he said, so he would stay in the England side, even though he'd got in the England side already thanks to his performances for Villa.

That's why Villa fans who remember him consider him a c*nt.

See also Alpay Ozalan after his 2002 World Cup performances for Turkey.

[Jon Crofts]

'We Hate Hodge' was the simplistic but oh so true chant at the time and for a while after.

[pauliewalnuts]

Hodge was, and is, a turbo-cunt

[RichardBatchelor]

Hodge was, and is, a turbo-cunt

Ha ha good expression, but more of a pantomime villain for me.