Why Roy Hodgson's days are up at Liverpool?
Liverpool plummeted to new depths on Sunday as they lost 2-0 to Everton in the Merseyside derby. In fact, Liverpool were bad, a lot worse than bad. Perhaps pathetic, inept or shambolic, or may be all of those and still a lot worse. Despite the vote of confidence
given to Roy Hodgson by the new owners, he failed to inspire his side to a victory over their fiercest rivals and now Hodgson finds himself on the verge of being sacked after only 2 months in charge.
Given the tumultuous circumstances at the club and the pressure that Hodgson finds himself under, there was something rather undiplomatic about Kenny Dalglish taking up a position in the Liverpool director’s box just behind the new owners in the match against
Everton. But there can be no denying to the fact that Hodgson’s worst enemy throughout his reign at the club cannot be anyone but himself. The players that he inherited from Benitez have regressed and all his latest signings have flopped.
Perhaps, it was a mistake to appoint a mid-table manager for one of the biggest job in English football. The criticism of Hodgson does not stop here; perhaps it cannot, at least not after such a dismal performance, not after 75% of such an important game
was allowed by the manager before he finally brought a change to the order of things.
Form is temporary of course but this season, the permanent feature of Liverpool side is the acute lack of shape, and tactical clarity.
It is not a heartening sight when a manager on the touchline cuts as bleak a figure as his side are pathetic on the pitch and the truth of the matter is that Liverpool cannot possibly do any worse than they already did on Sunday and only on the basis of
this reckoning, the manager should not survive as it is impossible to believe that his side can produce any worse than what they did against Everton. Considering that, Hodgson’s time at Liverpool Football club should be up.
Some heart could be taken from the fact that Liverpool got better after the introduction of additional firepower but why did Hodgson take so long in changing things at Goodisson only remains known to the man himself.
Perhaps, it was a cardinal sin playing Steven Gerrard with Fernando Torres up front when there was no player in the midfield that could provide the two with quality service. Criticizing Torres and Gerrard has been the favourite past time for all the pundits
on TV and all the journalists at the Fleet Street but the simple fact of the matter is that they are being wasted in a side that is so guile-less otherwise.
Liverpool’s new owners are seemingly new to the game and required an update on the happening on the pitch on a minute by minute basis from Brougton, but one thing that they could not have missed was the fact that their confidence in Hodgson was misplaced.
The irony of it was that Hodgson described the result as unlucky. Can someone please go and tell Hodgson that defending the indefensible is indefensible itself.
Joe Cole’s stint in the central midfield only lasted as long as the suggestion that he was the signing of the summer. For the entirety of the match, Cole failed to put one ball over the head of Phil Jagielka.
Perhaps, the winds are changing in English football. Everton to finish ahead of Liverpool while Manchester City to finish ahead of Manchester United is a distinct possibility but the situation at Liverpool is much worse than at United.
People say that Liverpool are too good to go down but judging by the current situation, they are not too good to go down but in fact, they are too bad to stay up. Unless, there is some drastic change at the club, Liverpool are destined to the drop.
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