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I feel that we should respect Mr Hodgson completely, one way I would like to show my thanks to Mr Hodgson is by waiting for the day to come when he is pushed because he will never quit, and airbrushing him out of LFC history and deny he ever was manager here, just like he denies that he has got the team playing football not worthy of the 3rd division!

I just hope your having a winde up saying that clown Benitez was one of us. All that tyrant ever done was look after himself, constantly deflecting the blame from his own managerial incompetencies, even his joke transfers he tried to cover up with excuses where he blatenley abused club funds by buying inferior products at inflated fees. You talk about still defending us by fighting our corner, am taking you mean his press conference, the same one where he should be talking about his team playing Tottenham Hotspur in an important Champions league game but instead decided to attack the Club he was sacked from and also Purslow, just shows the man is a bitter, incompetent fool with no class whatsoever.

You just can't stop, can you, Reclaim? That "bitter, incompetent fool with no class whatsoever" happens to win more games on average than very nearly any manager in the game, and yet prior to his appointment with Inter *this season* had never managed a team at the top of its league. Try to put your random bitching into context. He obviously rubbed you up the wrong way, but his record with Liverpool (and especially Valencia) speaks for itself. Yes, he had a bad season; everyone has bad seasons, just ask whiskey-nose. Yes, he deserved the sack; even he appreciated that. No, he does not deserve your childish diatribe.

Oh, and just for reference, Purslow was the man with the plan during this last transfer window (our loans can almost certainly be attributed to him), and he hired Hodgson, who we all now know is not fit to stand in Rafa's shoes. I have massive respect for Purslow as a businessman, but as a footballing brain? Not so much. While I can't agree with everything Rafa had to say about Purslow, well, we all had our reservations about his role at the club until very recently, didn't we? Try to keep the perspective that Rafa was talking about events that occurred not long after Purslow came on board, not things that happened last week.

all i know is when alonso got sold it was the beginning of the end for the squad

What Hodgson was supposed to say when told about a potential offer for Torres from Man U was, "Who? They're having a laugh! If anything from United reaches our fax machine we shred it without reading it, and we don't take their calls. This must be Rooney's agent stirring up trouble, so why don't you go ask him about it?"

If we are honest alonso was not consistent enough prior to his last season,and i dont remember many people complaining about rafa chasing barry at the time as he was playing better.Why did no one come in for alonso that summer for £14 million if he was that good?Maybe you can blame rafa for not getting the best out of him,but he was obviously playing with a point to prove in his last season,why could he not do that prior?Rafa was then promised the funds to boost the squad,Aqualaini,Jovetic,Turner were his main targets and i remember just before the stoke game the board pulled the plug on the jovetic deal and only dalglish stopped him resigning,and instead of turner he had to settle for Soto.That is what went wrong that summer.

Nail on the head legend.We need to let this Alonso thing lie now.

for the record, i never wanted barry. overrated. NOW we can let it go.

the summer when rafa tried to sell him to get Barry in alonso had a shiiit of a season before the summer transfer window, and the year before that people seem to forget that. Good management I think, he got a kick up the arse and had his best season when we finished 2nd, and left cus Madrid came calling. If they didn't we would still have him

Where on earth are you getting this one bad season from, the man was there for six and stayed in contention for the league only once after xmas which is a disgrace considering he spent about 170 million pounds on bringing players into the club. The European record he had was good yes but that does'nt detract away from the fact that his league teams where very poor and lets face it the league is what your judged on not what you do in Cup competitions. The man just wont conform with any sort of discipline because he is to stubborn and pig headed, he clashed with his bosses at Valencia, Hicks, Gillett, Purslow and even Rick Parry before he went. The man wont take respnsibility for his own mistakes and would much rather blame others than admit it was his own doing. You answer me this than why did Benitez hold the club to ransom with threatening to walk out unless he got shut of Parry, full control of the Academy where he duly sacked Stevie Heighway and Hugh McCaulay as well as a big cull of the rest of the staff which he replaced with Spaniards, gave new long term contracts to Gerrard, Carragher, Kuyt and Agger when they all had plenty of years left anyway and asked for full control of the transfers, yet was prepared to go to Inter Milan where he had no say whatsoever in any of the above but just coach the first team. I cant stand the feller and if it was up to me I would confiscate his passport so he would never darken our shores again, cant ever remember ever wanting to see Spurs win a game as much as the other nite. The reason we are on this downward spiral and at the bottom of the league is down to this feller and stupid fans are blaming Hicks, Gillett and Roy Hodgeson which is totaly unfair because they only have a part of the blame.