Soccer

With an attitude like that he shouldn't be allowed back into Liverpool, the
city, never mind the club. You hire a mid-table manager and you get a mid
table outlook. Even with all the ownership troubles and lack of investment
we retain a core of decent players, good enough to have the ambition and yes
Roy, expectations, that we can go to a place like Utrecht and be a bit
disappointed not to get a win.

With this idiot though every game is a tough one and we're being constantly
told to not expect much. Before the Northampton game he said, "They'll be a
*formidable* challenge - there's no question about that.". 17th in the (old)
fourth division Roy? Formidable? Piss off you silly old sod.

Also as well as lowering expectations he seems to be going out of his way to
ruin good players. Reina hasn't been himself this season and yesterday I
read an interview with him where he said he's been told to train in a
different way, in an English goalkeeping style. FFS, if it isn't broken why
fix it?

Also, Hodgson seems incapable of getting the best out of players, possibly
as he's clueless about what their strengths are. Raul Meireles playing right
mid? Is RH insane or just overly optimistic that a cracking DM can be played
out on the right as an offensive right midfielder? Perhaps the elderly gent
got confused when he saw Raul's initials on his training bib and decided it
meant he was to play at RM?

As a final straw, as if that hadn't been broken long before, the commentator
said last night that he asked Hodgson whether Torres preferred to play
alongside a partner. RH replied he didn't know. It's your job to know that
you blithering idiot. Get out now and put Kenny in charge until the
ownership is sorted. If we persist with this fool and happen to get a -9
points administration penalty then we're going down.

Before anyone thinks I'm just a Rafa fan off on one because they got rid of
Rafa, at the end of last season I believed Rafa had gone stale and it was
time for a change in the interests of both us and him. However, this was
with the one key proviso that we should only lose Rafa if a better or equal
standard of coach was available. In no possible way should have Hodgson been
even considered, and in replacing Rafa with him, Purslow has shown himself
to be, to put mildly, out of his depth, regardless of where he stands in the
battle for the ownership.

Iain

On 1 October 2010 08:23, Robert Halton <rhalton@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> "If you're not satifisied when we're top of the group, had a good home win
> over Steaua and a good away draw against Utrecht you're never gonna be
> satisfied. I think people are piling expectations on the club which are
> unrealistic. We certainly did a lot better here than Celtic did"
>

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