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England boss Roy Hodgson has paid tribute to Sir Alex Ferguson after he claimed his 13th league championship with Manchester United.
Ferguson claimed the title on Monday after a 3-0 win over Aston Villa, and Hodgson was the latest to add his praise for the veteran United chief.
"It is incredible, the most incredible thing is being able to do it, year after year," he told Sky Sports.
"There is no doubt there is a certain lack of appetite that comes with winning things, it is very difficult to be as hungry for your second title as you were for your first so it must be even harder for your 25th title, or whatever it is if we take all Alex's titles together.
"if we talk about magic in football the only magicians I know are people like Sir Alex Ferguson who year after year keep producing incredible performances from his teams and players and keeps building teams from the ashes of the previous teams."
Roy Hodgson
"And we are talking about someone with incredible ability and an incredible ability to keep himself fresh, just how many teams has he rebuilt? His teams have won 13 league titles and goodness knows how many cups, so there is not much we can say really other than we would all like to know how he does it and we would all like to know the secret.
"And if we talk about magic in football the only magicians I know are people like Sir Alex Ferguson who year after year keep producing incredible performances from his teams and players and keeps building teams from the ashes of the previous teams."
Hodgson was speaking at the National Football Centre, where England's first ever manager has been celebrated.
Hodgson and the centre's chairman David Sheepshanks revealed a new statue of Sir Walter Winterbottom, who would have turned 100 last month.
Source : http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11667/8667585/Premier-League-England-boss-Roy-Hodgson-hails-Sir-Alex-Fergsuon