"He's the Liverpool Manager and, if he manages like the past greats, one would expect him to win something and play at the very least - decent football.
"But then he'd have manage like a legendary Liverpool Manager and up to now, to be quite frank, he's not performed - very often at least - to the level me and the Liverpool fc fans would expect of him.
"You would have to ask him 'do you think you're teams playing good football and are you managing like the best managers in the country or best for your club?'
"If he says yes, obviously we will have to agree to differ and if he says no, then you'd have to ask the question 'why not?"'
This is using more or less the exact same quotes he used to blast johnson. hodgson said "That was just a general comment that I think I was entitled to make''. this is exactly the same with mine. its a 'general comment' and one that i 'think i am entitled to make'. so no one can say to me that im not backing the manager and im being unfair because im just doing the exact same thing hodgson is doing with his players. if he can do it, then so can i