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By Gareth Roberts.

IT SEEMS strange to say it when he’s yet to even meet all his players or pick a team for a competitive match, but Roy Hodgson is winning me over.

I was far from happy to be told some time back that he was the nailed-on choice of our much maligned board to succeed Rafa Benitez.

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Gareth is the editor of Liverpool supporters’ magazine, Well Red. Issue three is available now at www.wellredmag.co.uk

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