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Hodgson gone.

Oh I bet they're awfully excited.

Big gamble to appease the fanbase by appointing Dalglish.

can't see liverpool making any real improvement.their problems run deeper than changing the manager i think.

But Liverpool F.C. operate on magic and mystique.

and delusion

Feel sorry for Woy. Very, very good manager.

How can you tell Roy Hodgson isn't Scouse?

He'll be looking for a job on Monday morning.

AKA magic and mystique :)

Should have kept Hodgson. 7 wins out of 20 is bad form for Liverpool but I think he would have done a good job given time.

Houllier, on the other hand, should definitely be relieved of his post. Villa are all over the shop under him.

The Best Fans In The World (TM) strike again.

Hahahahahahaha, wheeling that managerial has been dinosaur Dalglish out is real desperation.

Perhaps he'll bring Paul Dalglish in to? Give him some work experience after his poor managerial debut with Tampa Bay.

You are spot on there.

Kenny wont make a huge difference because of the shit going on there. Knee jerk reaction from a club in trouble, the board trying to win back a few of the fans by getting in a man that most Liverpool fans want as the new manager.

It's not a popular belief with Liverpool fans, but their demise from the best team in England can be traced back to Kenny Dalglish.

He took over the best team in the country, but didn't continue what Liverpool were always good at and replace players before they reached their sell by date. His team got old together & once he spotted that he walked.

People will point to a successful time at Blackburn, but remember they spent big (for the time), and he had a very good coach with him.

He will have the fans on his side, but will be interesting to see IF he can improve them.

At least they weren't mad enough to go back to Rafa (It's not my fault it's his fault) Benetez :D

Dalgliesh? A manager totally out of touch with the modern game who has been out of work for years now. Oh dear. I can see them flirtling with relegation to be honest. As for Hodgson the way that jobs seem to be coming up thick and fast I can't see him being out of work long. West Ham or Villa is probably a good bet for him.

Or maybe back to Fulham.....Hughes is under pressure.

They've had a few decent results of late though.

I feel an english football is fucked rant coming on

I'm going out for a walk down roves farm oooh arrrr

I worry it will be a bit like when Keegan came back (no not all the stuff about quiting every two minutes) having been out of the game ie presenting a transfer list of incredibly obvious superstars and players who were good last time he was in charge.

To make a serious point he is going to have to rely on his coaches and scouts so much that really those appointments will be as significant as a new manager anyway.

I thought I was the only one in world who thought that.  Thank you Posh, I am not alone.  Also, Souness did try to get good young players in.  Liverpool fans aren't too keen on hearing that either.

So I take it I'm not the only one who thinks Dalglish is hideously overrated as a manager then?

Nope. :toocool:

+1

+1

I can't stand Dalglish - cheating Jock wanker.

The Blackburn Rovers era was purely financial. Anyone argues against that is crazy because they wouldn't have attracted Dalglish there in the first place otherwise.

Would agree with much of that apart for the reason for walking; he cited health and personal reasons. A substantial part of his autobiography lays out the emotional toll that Hillsborough subsequently had on him and his family. It was this that led him to quit, understandably.

I'll like to join the consensus.

Dalglish's last job was at Celtic was the 'dream team' with John Barnes...and we all know what happened there!!!

All I know is that Man U fans will be pissing themselves with laughing.

Of course Rafa Benitez is available....considering just about all the players there were his signings anyway.

Souness and the spice boys were the undoing of Liverpool.

I think Ruddock was the cause of the Liverpool decline as he was of ours.

I think in both cases the rot had started long before El GiantShorts turned up

He did take Newcastle to a second place finnish and a cup final in the late 90s.

But yes, all these Liverpool fans saying 'it can only get better' make me laugh. You sure?!

Not sure there is any need to feel sorry for him, apparently he got a £7.5m payoff. Think most people forget that when a manager gets sacked or leaves by mutual consent (ie sacked) they get their contract paid up.

Fickle Liverpool supporters get their way. Not I good move I think but time will tell (I bet they win today now I said that!)

Penalty awarded against them inside 35 seconds.  Gerrard sent off for a two footed lunge.  Same shit, different gaffer.  Couldn't happen to a nicer team.

Shocking penalty decision, no way would have been sending off if Utd player. Hodgson average manager at best when working with average clubs. No way would he ever be in charge of Utd, Chelsea or Arsenal so see no reason while Liverpool fans should accept him either. Rememember Hodgsons appointment  was by the outgoing Hicks & Gillette regime. Daglish hero in Liverpool fans eyes and will keep them happy until end of season until they appoint a longer term solution.

Gerrard had to go. As soon as both feet leave the ground you may as well start walking. For both incidents, i'd have been shouting for a penalty and the red card if it were Swindon, so'm not too fussed.

Although Rafaels 2 footed lunge in the build up went unoticed

i'd have said that rafaels stampy lunge was a foul as well, howard webb hasn't helped this game

I think lunge may be pushing it a bit.

ok two footed jump

Didn't look to me like his feet left the ground so for me it was okay.  Anyway i'd be more ashamed if I was that Mereiles for pussying out of going through Rafael. 

Plus it was harder to spot in real-time.

Anyone else think Jim Beglin is a cunt?

Yes.

Also yes.

I concur also

At least they take defeat gracefully

It seems there is no need for investigation

good pundit.

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"And there was laughter across the land"  :D

That's fucking class.

I've sent it to every Liverpool fan I know.

This is my favourite line:

"Now the bounty of the Lord is gone, for he hath spunked it on absolute garbage"

:D

Brilliant.

Hope he does well, I remember him playing for a Rampant Liverpool side in the late 70's-mid 80's and was successful there as a manager (albeit taking over from the Shankly dynasty).

Don't really get the Liverpool hatred on here, must be a lot of closet Man Utd fans around?

Oh c'mon that piece is pure comedy.

I think the hatred of Liverpool is more towards their twatty fans than actual hatred of Liverpool FC.

Made a good start on that front anyway:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/9353787.stm

The dislike of Liverpool for the older generation is probably akin to the dislike of Man Utd now.

They were the dominant team for many years, and didn't their mong fans like to remind everyone else of it.

The media at the time had a fascination with Liverpool that went beyond the arse licking given to Man Utd now, and their fans weren't hooligans (like everyone else), they were just harmless scalleys.

I don't wish them any harm, but relegation & 10 years in the lower leagues would be a good start :D

And no, I'm not a fan of Man Utd, closet or otherwise

It's 100% my reason for disliking them and hoping for their relegation...

He may have been out of the game for some time, but his record when he was in it stands up. He began managing in England in 1985 and last did so in 1998. You can chuck promotion with Blackburn in 1991 in with this lot too if you like, but either way it's a fuck sight more than Hodgson has ever done.

First Division/Premier League
Champions: 1986, 1988, 1990, 1995
Runners-Up: 1987, 1989, 1994, 1997

FA Cup
Winners: 1986, 1989
Runners-Up: 1988, 1998

35,000 v Bolton on NYD.....not many more than the likes of Leicester and Derby, who've struggled for years, not just a couple of months.

Theyve got loads of southern fans who are very very fickle. They are far more dependent on the southern fans to fill the ground than any of the other big North West teams.

Liverpool have always had trouble selling out the less attractive mid week fixtures.

It's not just the southern fans, the majority of fans from Liverpool are fickle as well. I know plenty of scousers who don't go just because Liverpool havn't been performing. Most wanted Rafa out and Hodgson in a long time before it happened, but as soon as it happened and Hodgson was, well, shit they wanted Rafa back.

I don't think they are more dependent on southern fans compared to other NW teams though - especially united - but they do rely heavily on groups coming from Ireland and Scandinavia for the weekend games.

United sell out fixtures mid week, even pretty unnatractive ones. And remember a sell out at Old Trafford is nearly 30,000 more than a sell out at Anfield.

They got 73,000 at home against Bursaspor this season. Liverpool's attendance against Napoli was a bit of an embaressment for English football, Napoli brought a massive following, had massive groups in the home end, and it still wasnt a sell out.

There was an interesting survey a few years back about the support in the Premier League. One of the points that came out in the article was the percentage of fans (season ticket holders I think) that lived more than 20 miles from the stadium. 

Surprisingly this number was higher for Liverpool, than it was for Man Utd.

I'm guessing it's partly due to the high number of Man Utd fans who have never been anywhere near Old Trafford

 King Kenny has made a difference....

Wonder what kind of odds you'd have got in August on Blackpool doing the double over Liverpool this season?

Or Blackpool claiming a Europa league spot? They're 7 behind Chelsea with a game in hand *snigger*.

Dalglish out...

I'd laugh if Everton also beat them this weekend !!

Wel, as Liverpool's season seems to be over I guess he can fuck off home...

Bring back Shankly

Surely a better long term manager for Liverpool would have been Martin O Neil I think 'King' Kenny has been out of the game too long and is too long in the tooth

King Kenny is perfect. With any luck he'll finish the job Woy started and take the fucking bin dippes down.

Was thinking of this thread yesterday afternoon for some reason ;-)