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'I feel like a kid again!' Hodgson meets former students

Invited to the training ground by partners eToro, two lucky competition winners met Roy Hodgson recently to watch Crystal Palace's final training session of the season and revealed that they had particular incentives for meeting (or even re-meeting) the Palace manager.

Having enjoyed a morning watching the Eagles prepare to host AFC Bournemouth, the two winners revealed that they had in fact been taught by Hodgson while at Alleyn's school in Dulwich, where the manager spent time as a PE teacher between spells with Maidstone United and Berea Park.

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Asked why he wanted to win the competition to meet Hodgson, one of his former pupils Adrian said: "He's a legend and he used to be my PE teacher.