Hod job man

Glenn Hoddle at Molineux, Wolverhampton. Photographer: David Jones/PA

He's back - and not necessarily at the kind of football club you would have expected him to turn up at. When Wolves announced that they had appointed Glenn Hoddle as manager, it was something of a surprise.

After all, the former England manager hadn't really been touted as a contender for the job of reviving the Midlands club, who have struggled for form since being relegated from the Premiership. He had been far more heavily linked with a return to Southampton (in some cases, as recently as today), the club he left acrimoniously to go and manage his alma mater, Tottenham, in 2001. Although football's curse on heroes rejoining their old clubs did its inevitable work, it appeared he didn't think of himself as the boss of anything other than a top division club.