What have you done Roy? – Part 1
Roy Hodgson, in his very own disillusioned and unique way, said the other week that Liverpool’s poor showing throughout this season is not his fault. He stressed at the fact that this was not his team and he hasn’t been able to bring in the players he wants
to (what about http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pepe-Reina-c29672 etc. That’s fair
enough Roy.
Roy, as we all know had problems away from home last year while at Fulham as well. So far Liverpool have managed a grand total of ‘ONE’ away win all season. Liverpool sit 12th in the table after 18 games; this brings one good news though that
Liverpool will surely avoid relegation if they finish the season at this rate – 22 divided by 18 and then multiplied by 38 gives us 46 points from the season – hence Liverpool should be safe.
Interestingly, this is what Fulham achieved last season, a 12th place finish with 46 points; boy, this man has got some serious consistency. However, the other good news is that http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 will finish with a goal difference of -4, slightly better
than Fulham’s -7 from last season.
As a matter of fact, Liverpool never went below 8th in the table in their previous campaign, but that was still deemed unacceptable. However, Liverpool have been wrestling between 9th and 12th spot for over a month now under
Uncle Woy.
Roy managed 4 away wins from 38 while at Fulham; i.e. an average of 2 away wins a season. Liverpool, with just one away win so far this season are well on course to make to 2 by the end of the season. Once again great consistency Mr. Hodgson.
At Fulham, Roy left a team which has the highest average age in the league, even though a certain 30-year old Paul Konchesky left the club. Mark Hughes has been left with the responsibility of taking over a bunch of oldies and plan out a bright future at
the club. One wonders what long term planning Roy had done while at Craven Cottage.
In Milan, Rafa was shown the door for being honest. He took over a team with an average age of 30 and although they had won the treble, most players were suffering from fatigue.
Unlike Roy, Rafa did not buy a single player, rather the talented Balotelli was allowed to leave the club. He certainly got the best of his pacy centre forward, Samuel Eto’o, who at the start of the season was doing better than both Messi and Ronaldo.
However, niggling injuries to important players, considered to be the spine of the team left Inter Milan....ah spineless.
Yet Benitez was able to win the Club World Cup and Inter were still very much in the title hunt. Incredibly, pundits were praising Rafa for bringing more attractive style of play to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 and had it not been for those injuries Inter could have been a lot
closer to the top.
This certainly is not Rafa’s team, but who is blaming Mourinho for leaving old legs behind – interestingly he did something very similar when he left http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786.
Roy needs to have a look at his work that he has done since he took over the reins. The word ‘clueless’ has been associated with him far too often, and it certainly can’t be a coincidence that everyone in the press gets the same impression.
It’s time for him to leave but he could have done better, had he blamed himself and his dreadful tactics for Liverpool’s abysmal campaign rather than pointing finger aimlessly at nearly everyone – his last attack was on the Kop and that should seal his fate.
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