stodge

It is an improvement in style and league placing after the stodge of Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte but it is still a disappointment after so much optimism and promise for the first few months of the season.

Postecoglou’s brand of attacking football was a sharp contrast to the stodge of Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte but was too easily rumbled by opponents in the second half of the season.

Crystal Palace have been transformed from the dull stodge of the final days of Roy Hodgson to exciting, attacking football under Oliver Glasner.

Postecoglou’s first campaign will be viewed in a positive light no matter what happens between now and the end of the season, if only for banishing some of the memories of the stodge served up by predecessors Mourinho and Conte.

"Indian stodge follows England's spice," wrote the Sunday Telegraph.