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I watched Roy Hodgson at the match yesterday he remained seated most of the game, he did not celebrate when West Brom scored and his post match words were very gracious towards Liverpool when a lesser man would have added an edge of gloat to the interview. His game plan worked perfectly give Liverpool space in the midfield but shut them out in the final third and try to sneak a draw or a goal. It worked ours did not. It’s been said before but our treatment of him was shameful and I would like to pay tribute to him here.

Dalglish Record

League Matches 52
Wins 22
Win % = 42%
Total Spend £116m
Pounds per point £1.5m

Hodgson Record

League Matches 20
Wins 7
Win % = 35%
Total spend £23m
Pounds per point £0.9m

Now I don’t believe either manager is of the calibre to manage Liverpool but given the prodigious expenditure Dalglish has been granted and the paltry return on it I cannot but help feel FSG would have been better served by sticking with Hodgson at least until the end of last season before appointing their own man. The Dalglish experiment has put us in a worse mess and now we are stuck with a man in charge who we must tread on eggshells and praise to the skies any limited progress because he is a legend and we want him to do so well even if our brains tell us otherwise. And know some of you will say we have won the Carling Cup but given the bigger picture I feel the Carling Cup 2012 is a curse. There is an Italian saying “a fish rots from the head down” That head is Henry’s and FSG in my view. Time is on Henry’s side yet and he may rectify things and all is not yet lost. But so far he has made a hash of his managerial appointments in my view.

I don't understand why you say our treatment of him was shameful. If you're talking about a minority who take things too far, then ok, but there is a minority that go too far against Kenny, or Henderson, Carroll, Downing, Adam etc. Are these all so shameful?

In the main, Hodgson came to do a job, was paid very well, he failed at his job, quite clearly, made some strange signings and several public gaffes and was paid off, handsomely I'm sure, to leave. When he returned to anfield as a visiting manager, he wasn't treated too badly either.

Where is the shame in all of this? Apart from the minority who chanted against him, that is. If we're throwing around powerful words like shameful for this kind of thing, then there are a few things Hodgson did and said that I would consider shameful of a Liverpool manager.

Yeah but who called for his head after two games? Some idiots, and a minority. If you're going to call this shameful, then you're in for a life full of shame, because there will always be people like this.

That IS a minority. That's only a few thousand. And if you were there, presumably you didn't chant it, so not everyone even in the away end was chanting it.

I also think King Kenny on the sidelines was the kiss of death for Hodgson. If you think back to Koptalk back then there was some very very personal insults almost daily. I remember one clown accussing Roy Hodgson of abusing children it really was bad. Now I don't rate Kenny who I believe is worse than Hodgson but I would never do what some people did. Also at Anfield did the whole Kop not chant hodgson for england with the king in the stands. What kind of supporters do that? we are not blackburn.

fùck you know who!

Maybe Arimtage can show the way?