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Micky Hazard on Glenn Hoddle’s genius at Swindon Town: “People said it was embarrassing that our player-coach was our best player, but he would have been the best at any club.”
Ed McCambridge, dated March 28, 2024
As a player-coach before to the 1993–94 season, Glenn Hoddle motivated Swindon to make it to the Premier League.

Everyone who saw Glenn Hoddle in his flamboyant glory would tell you the same thing: he was an incredible talent.

Ask former teammate Micky Hazard, who came through the ranks at Spurs while Hoddle was captivating audiences throughout the nation, about the former midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, Monaco, and England. He was as elegant and imaginative as any player in global football on his day.

Hazard now tells FourFourTwo, “I watched the first team train as an apprentice at Spurs and thought he was just the best player in the world.” Glenn Hoddle was exceptionally intelligent. It is my belief that portraying Glenn in a photograph is not fitting for him. He was an absolute master of the ball, using his foot or any other part of his body; he personified the football player who was born to play the game. Not even when I played with him did it alter. Seeing him at work was an honor.”

Hazard left for Chelsea in 1985, but in 1991, when Hoddle joined Swindon Town as a player-coach from Monaco, the two were once again together. Before departing to become manager of Chelsea, Hoddle led the Robins to the Premier League in his role as player-coach in 1993–94. Robins from Hoddle were

Really. Suddenly, my schoolboy hero is in charge of me. I was happy to be a part of the wonderful football I played, and I knew when Glenn came in that I could play to my abilities.

of that group. That Swindon team had a strong offensive philosophy and was quite good. For a team like Swindon, being promoted via the play-offs during Glenn’s second season was an incredible accomplishment. When our player-coach happened to be our greatest player, people used to make fun of us and say it was humiliating, but he was that excellent. At any club, he would have been the top player. We weren’t at blame.