Palace’s Roy Hodgson still awaiting personal apology from Sam Allardyce

• Pair finally come face to face at Goodison Park tomorrow
• Everton manager claims he tried to call but did not get through

Roy Hodgson has admitted his relationship with Sam Allardyce has been wrecked after his successor as England manager was filmed mocking him, making remarks he found insulting and for which he has not had a personal apology.

Allardyce, whose Everton welcome Hodgson’s Crystal Palace to Goodison Park on Saturday, was caught on camera in September 2016 calling his predecessor “Woy” during conversations with undercover reporters, and suggesting he would be no use as a public speaker because “he’d send them all to sleep, he hasn’t got the personality”. He went on to suggest that Hodgson had been “too indecisive” as England succumbed to defeat against Iceland at Euro 2016.

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