Hodgson must face the music

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There has been nothing pleasing about Hodgson’s regime at Liverpool. In fact, nothing average. It’s all been disastrous. He has broken many records, records which put Liverpool in a very bad light. This season, it has been all embarrassment at the finest British football club in history.

A few of Hodgson’s inenviable records include:

1) First loss to Stoke in 26 years
2) First loss to Blackpool since 1967
3) Second ever loss to Wolves at home in 60 years
4) Worst winning percentage for a Liverpool manager since 1959 at 41.38%
5) First ever loss in Liverpool’s 118 year history to fourth division opponent (Northampton Town)

6 months in the job and he has proven he is not up to the task. Since I started following Liverpool I cannot recall a negative goal difference as we approach the halfway mark of the season. I cannot recall us being 12th in the table after 18 games, with only 22 points, and a points/game of 1.22.

If anyone bothered to study Fulham 09/10 and the current Liverpool 10/11, the similarities are glaring. In Hodgson’s Fulham last season, they had a ratio of W12D10L16. Currently, Liverpool have a ratio of W6D4L8. Multiply that by two, and it’s very close as to what you get at Fulham last season.

And from that I can predict we’re already headed for a draw against Bolton the next game.

Hodgson’s faith in his own ability is disturbing. After 35 years in management, what has he frankly got to show for? 2 losses in Europa League Finals, and a small ‘LMA Manager of the Year’ title. Yet he still believes he is the man primed with leading Liverpool’s revival, and refuses to throw in the towel.

Polls running on Liverpool fan sites showed that 98% of fans want Hodgson sacked now. The wisdom of crowds don’t fail, and this is an overwhelming majority we’re talking about. It’s not 70%, nor 80%, it’s 98%.

The man is baffling. After a mini myriad of wins, he suggested Liverpool were ‘right up there’, when they were in fact lying 11th based on a six game run of form. He said protests against the former owners didn’t help – we did it for the good of the club and you must be a hell lot thankful that NESV are now in charge.

More baffles. His side put in a display which made Wolves look like world beaters on Wednesday night. Yet after the game, he was at it, criticising the supporters for the lack of support, and then proceeding to criticise Kenny Dalglish, a club legend. The fans have all right to voice their own opinions after what was arguably the worst performance of the season.

These are just the few of the major errors he has committed. Add to that more contradictions, a betrayal to the club’s young supporters by promising to play Torres, the failure to implement pass and move, a wide variety of serious misjudgements, and you can perhaps see why just no one welcomes him at Anfield any longer.

Liverpool is the greatest football club in England, and the world. It should not be allowed to be ruined by a man with no tactical nous. He has demonstrated a complete lack of understanding on ‘The Liverpool Way’, and has showed time and again he is completely out of sync with the fans. He fails to embrace the ethos, the tradition of the club, which the fans hold so close and dear to their hearts.

For as long as Hodgson stays, he is not going to do Liverpool good. With each passing day, the club is getting torn into shreds. I cannot relate to this Liverpool side today, devoid of any creativity, invention and inspiration.

With Hodgson’s mentality, we are just slipping into the deeper depths of the Premier League table. We’re struggling to swim, to stay afloat. This cannot continue. Even the most staunch supporters cannot find a reason to back Hodgson any more. His 6 months at Anfield has done Liverpool all harm, no good.

With this, I urge the owners to remove Roy Hodgson from his position as Liverpool manager with immediate effect, and give the fans some festive cheer ahead of the New Year.

17 Comments

  1. GREAT POST…..
    Can i add that it takes more then a bad manager for a club to be nearly done for which lets be clear Liverpool is!?

    I hate Roy with a passion, for many a reason that i can not be bothered to even go into.

    My huge disgust is at the new owners, the people in and around the club working for the club itself.

    The mentality is so bad, its untrue, take this attitude of ” the jan market is not the time to buy”.. never heard such a load of rubbish…..

    It hide time liverpool did invest in the team, never mind a new ground, we will not fill that ground if we havent got a group of players fit to wear the red shirt!!!

    All this talk of rebuild this and rebuild that, waht a load of crap, its just an issue that the board and many are creating so they do not have to pay out!

    How much longer are we the paying fans, should keep paying out for this and that,match day tickets travel, and etc… while all the money men keep not investing in the very product that dictates the outcome of doing well or not doing well.

    buttom line is when are liverpool going to wake up and smell the coffee…..

    we havent got a good manager, what do you do? you go out sack him get on with it and progressivly target and go after another one, even if he is working else where….

    we dont have quality players, enough to even have a very strong bench.. what do you do,,, sell or just get rid of the shite and move on, and target and proactivly seek other players.

    I make it sound easy, in life is never is but, its not rocket science, but the club make it sound like we have this huge rebuilding job that means we have to wait to do this and wait to do that.

    TOTAL CRAP,,, JUST GET ON WITH, FOR MUCH LONGER LIVERPOOL WILL BE TRADING ON A CLUB IT ONCE WAS, NOT THE CLUB IT WANTS TO BECOME?

    SACK ROY, BRING NEW COACH WHO THE PLAYERS WANT TO PLAY FOR.
    BRING IN 3 NEW PLAYERS IN JAN, AND THE REST IN THE SUMMER

    DEADWOOD OUT NOW, EVEN LET THEM GO,; BABEL, EL ZHAR, INSUA, DEGEN, DARBY, JOVANOVIC, COLE, POULSEN, KONCHESKY, BRAD JONES GK, AQUILANI(SUMMER), PLESSIES,

    BRING IN;

    AGUERO, CISSOHKO, YOUNG

  2. another well-written factually accurate peice,
    unfortunately, like all the others, it appears to be falling on
    deaf ears! our new owners’ first promise (to listen to the fans)
    has already been broken!

  3. its disturbing jovanovich was not given the chances of
    konchesky or even poulson the few times he played he was mostly out
    of position.

  4. blaming our fans brings to mind the saying some people could not see a priest on a mountain of sugar.

  5. do you think the man utd biased goverment gave martin broughton a knighthood for appointing roy hodgson.

  6. Couldn’t agree more, he has done the club far more harm than good! Hopefully nesv will see sense and sack him within the next 48hrs and bring Kenny in for the short term to stabilise things

  7. Roy has destroyed many clubs before us. Look at Inter for instance. After his reign, it took them such a long time to recover and become prudent force again. Often falling short behind their illustrious neighbour AC Milan. Look at Blackburn, premier league champion in 1995, close to being relegated after being managed by this clueless old fart, Roy “Useless” Hodgson.

    For me, he is a criminal of football. A parasite. An enemy to every beautiful things in football. He is a laughing stock. People are already laughing at us when we sign him on as manager. Now they cant seem to stop laughing and I can feel some are rolling on their floor now after watching us embarrassing ourselves in front of Wolves.

    If I’m in England now, I would have organised me and my mates to camp outside his house and irritate the hell out of him so that he will call it quit.

  8. I for one don’t care if we dont buy any players this january transfer window as long as we get the new manager. I wake up every morning in hope that he’s gone. Please NESV get rid of him NOW.PLEASE

  9. our new Yanks might have a plan, but while they take advice from the likes of Purslow the weasel there is little chance of them listening to the fans or to any form of reason. What ever plan they may have its unlikely we will be enjoying decent football for the foreseeable future.

  10. a message for our new owners re – 95% wanting roy out – you can fool all of the people some of the time and you can fool some of the people all of the time – BUT YOU CANT FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME. they are the 95% you must listen to now.

  11. I can’t see Hodgson leave immediately. These things take time, and exactly how much nobody knows at this stage.
    I believe player power can come in (effectively “mutiny”), which will motivate the team to play better against Bolton, whereupon RH agrees to resign in the coming weeks.
    If RH doesn’t agree, then he has to accept that the situation will become more and more untenable.

  12. Great article, i stopped going to anfeild last year i think we should boycott the ground if they dont get rid of roy, money is the only thing that talks in tis game, we fans are hot air, as much as it hurts to say, they dont give a t*ss bout us, sorry people its the truth, if i was religious i would be at church everyday praying for salvation, save our club from the hell of the championship!! P.S. i think we are cursed!!!

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