'I'm not sorry' - Roy Hodgson explains what he really didn't like as Liverpool manager

Roy Hodgson admits he struggled to find the right words when speaking publicly as Liverpool boss during his disastrous time in charge at Anfield.

Hodgson remains the shortest-serving permanent manager in the club's 131-year history after being sacked just 31 games into his tenure

He had the lowest win percentage of any Liverpool boss since their return to the top flight in 1962

Hodgson:

“I’ve been quite lucky – at Fulham, Watford and here (Crystal Palace) – you’re not dealing with the real cut-throat journalists who want to try and reduce you to tears!"

"I don’t put myself out for that and I’m not sorry to leave that (the experience I had with journalists at Inter Milan, Liverpool and England) behind, if I’m brutally honest. That is a part of the job that I find more demanding and more intellectually tiring than the football.

“The football doesn’t tire me but sometimes preparing for those interviews and being ready for the right questions, and choosing every single word correctly, making sure I didn’t say something that is going to rebound upon me (does).

“With England, it was more a question of feeling that all the journalists, through their various contacts, knew more than us (coaches). So you got the question and you’re thinking ‘hold on I don’t know if I know the answer, but you probably do!’, but the mass media has been kind to me so I have no complaints about that.”