LONDON: Former England manager Roy Hodgson has backed the Football Association’s (FA) decision to sell Wembley but hopes the stadium can be retained as the national team’s main ground. The FA are in talks to sell Wembley to billionaire Shahid Khan, the owner of Championship side Fulham and the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars. Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson hopes the Wembley Stadium will remain England’s home ground amidst talk of sale to billionaire Shahid Khan. I would hope that games would still be played there by the England national team. “If you sell Wembley, do you say you’ll sell Big Ben after this?

Source: New Strait Times April 27, 2018 06:45 UTC