Misunderstood genius, entertainer, advertiser, seer, guru, leader of men, sporter of complicated haircuts. and purveyor of some of the finest pearls of footballing wisdom.

"We changed to a back four and went 4-4-3 and after that 20-minute period we grew in our game."
With a formation like that, it must have felt like they had an extra man.

“I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.”
And with brilliant tactical gambits like this up his sleeve, Glenn’s teams could hardly fail.

“When a player gets to 30, so does his body.”
Glenn never really got credit for this discovery, and yet every player and coach takes it for granted nowadays.

"Robert Lee was able to do some running on his groin for the first time."
It was innovative, though admittedly painful, rehabilitation programmes like this that allowed Glenn to lead his teams to unprecedented success.

“He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.”
That’s it in a nutshell.

“Ilie has a deception of pace.”
Glenn has a deception of linguistic brilliance.

"International football is one clog further up the football ladder."
A clever allusion to an upcoming game against the Dutch, no doubt.

Of course, it’s not just about football for Glenn. He works theological insight into every facet of his life.

“His tackle was definitely pre-ordained.”
Here Glenn links a delicate doctrinal argument to an incident in a football match.

“They were still in the dressing room when they came out for the second half.”
And only Glenn could spot an opposing team that, like God, can be in two places at once.

“I do not believe that. In this moment in time, if that changes in years to come I don't know, but what happens here today and changes as we go along that is part of life's learning and part of your inner beliefs.”
Thankfully, a Hoddle disciple committed this utterance to scripture.

“We threw caution to the wind and came back from the dead. Well, it is Easter Monday.”
Jesus, John the Baptist-like, merely prefigured the true Resurrection, which occurred during half time at a Spurs game.

“Look at Jesus. He was a normal run of the mill sort of guy who had a genuine gift, just as Eileen has.”
Glenn puts 2000 years of Christianity into perspective.

Of course, a great theological mind is likely to be a great philosophical mind too.

"It's not a night for this or that."
Nor indeed for these or those.

“I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.”
The kind of alternatives we’d all like to have.

"75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.”
Hopefully Glenn phoned Gazza at some stage to let him know, although the danger would be that it would have proved to be one of the 75% of Gazza phone calls that were fictional.

"With hindsight, it's easy to look at it with hindsight."
Only Glenn had the foresight to see this.

“The minute's silence was immaculate, I have never heard a minute's silence like that."
What finely honed senses he has.