The former England manager is taking over the Palace job, as the club fights to remain in the Premier League.
palace is sitting three points above the relegation zone with 10 games to go.
Michael Bridge said: “Steve Parish has gone with Roy Hodgson because, short-term, he knows what he brings.
“I was speaking to Palace fans after Patrick Vieira’s dismissal and they wanted Marcelo Bielsa.
“I said, ‘Bielsa, for the last 10 games?’ That’s not how he works. We know this from when we were talking about the Everton job.
“Roy Hodgson knows the club inside-out and there were those shots when he returned to Palace as Watford manager and you just got the feeling that he thought, ‘This is my home’.
“We spoke to him on our transfer show in January and he said we when he was talking about Palace, he just loves the football club.”
“He spoke so highly about Wilfried Zaha and the players that are there now.
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“They say the table doesn’t lie but it does in a way this season in terms of teams that are around 12th, they don’t have time to take risks.
“Steve Parish will look at this and think, ‘I have a fanatastic working and personal relationship with Roy Hodgson’ and it seems the best move for him now.
“You could tell in January he wasn’t retired. He wanted one more go.”
