ROY HODGSON has stepped down as Crystal Palace manager hours before their Premier League meeting with Everton.

A Palace statement also confirmed that the 76-year-old, who was hospitalised after falling ill during a training session on Thursday, was “out of hospital and doing well.”

Hodgson’s right-hand man Ray Lewington and assistant manager Paddy McCarthy will lead the team on Monday at Goodison Park, with strong suggestions ex-Eintracht Frankfurt boss Oliver Glasner will imminently take over the struggling south London side.