Poor Scouser Tommy

I don’t want to be smug about it………

but I was right. And it is the most gut-wrenching, heart-aching, and soul destroying feeling in the world. I take absolutely no-pride in being right about our current situation. Yes those few short months ago, when I had fellow Liverpool fans lining up round the corner to tell me “Roy is the man to steady the ship” (Really?!?!?!? was my shocked reply)?, “He’s English and proven in the Premier League” (Ummmmmm I hate to disagree, I argued) “He can get the best out of our under achieving players and has a good record in the transfer market” (Kevin Davies @ Blackburn anyone), and “He has tactical nouse” (Then can someone please tell the man it’s OK to make a substitute before the 78^th minute….. For Christ’s sake, even Ray Charles could see that every game has needed freshening up earlier).

I stated on this very forum I thought is was the wrong direction for Liverpool Football Club to go down. To bring the fans back on-side I thought we needed a young, more expansive manager, Like Mark Hughes who is working wonders at Fulham. So well in fact former red, now Fulham skipper and Hodgson fan boy has already stated “Mark asks us to play a higher line than Roy did”. Surely with our attacking talent Torres, Gerrard, Cole, Kuyt we should be playing that higher line, that more expansive football that even the likes of West Brom are attempting to play.

Now when I said the I thought Roy was the wrong man for the job, I was told I was mad, mental, needed my head tested to use just a few phrases, but listening to the radio and reading the forums I see that people are now jumping on my bandwagon. Sacking him may be a bit too much of a knee-jerk reaction (we aren’t QPR after all), but at the minute the poor fella looks like he’s a rabbit caught in headlights.

I admit and have admitted I was impressed with him to start with. He was saying all the right things, he had the players on-side, and signed Joe Cole. Good start. But this is a results business, 6 points from 7 premier league games and a ‘Good Result’ for a nil-nil at those giants of European Football Utrecht is simply not good enough. Another argument I heard when Roy signed was “He’ll play players in their correct positions”….. REALLY…….. I hadn’t realised  that Raul Meireles, a Top Class (Not World class – as many of you know I fell that phrase is banded about FAR to often and usually on good players, whereas it should only be reserved for the absolute BEST world football has to offer) Central Midfielder with attacking tendencies was really a right winger/playing behind the front man, I actually thought we’d signed a Central Midfielder who liked to push on, so we wouldn’t have to play 2 holding midfielders….. How wrong was I!!!!!!

But one thing I have discovered is that Hodgson is actually a TIME-TRAVELLER! Yes, he was that impressed with Lucas he jumped in his DeLorian and  went 10 years in the Future to bring his future self back tot his time, to speed up his progression….. no wait, he actually just signed his slower, equally as bad at breaking up play Danish brother, and paid around £6million pounds for the privilege .

Meireles looks a decent player to be honest, but his best game has been….. yes his FULL debut where he player…… YES CENTRE MIDFIELD (Square Pegs in Square Holes Roy) If he wants to stick with the 4-2-3-1 type of formation, surely putting Meireles in there with Lucas, Poulson or Even Stevie is a better option than player slow and slower (Lucas and Poulson just  incase no-one got it) we have an abundance of player who CAN play in those wide positions, Kuyt, Cole, Jovanovic, Babel, Pacheco, Amoo, Eccleston and Stevie is a decent wide man too. For example:

Reina

Johnson Carra Skrtel Agger

Kuyt Meireles Gerrard Cole

Pacheco Torres

Looks a hell of a lot better and potentially more productive than the dross that has been happening under Cautious Roy. I’d even go as far as dropping some of the ‘Established Internationals’ and give the kids a Chance. Now from what I’ve seen, some of these kids look exciting, eager and actually give a shit about the club. What’s young Wilson done to offend Roy, he was one of the only ones from the Northampton debacle who came out with any praise. We needed a left-back for the latest debacle (Blackpool……. urgh) and he plays Carra…. who’s not played there in bloody years.

Wilson, Kelly (who has been very impressive) Shelvey, Amoo, Eccleston and especially Pacheco…. throw them in….. give them a chance…………. PLEASE……………

One thing I have noticed is how we always perk up in the second half. Now I have been wondering if it’s something to do with the training methods, cause all I’ve seen the fellas do is cycle in the same spot, laughing and joking and rolling around on those fucking great big over-sized beach balls…… I thought these were meant to be high-paid top-class PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLERS not training to be red-coats at Butlins in the Summer!

I have never been so disheartened as a Liverpool fan. I see absolutely nothing to excite me. Does the manager need to go? In my opinion he was the wrong choice in the first place. Can it be turned around? Yes it can, BUT we need to stop playing so cautiously. We have 6 points from 7 games, we have absolutely nothing to lose. Can we PLEASE just start going for the jugular, taking the game to the opposition and looking like we give a shit!

Well that’s a load off my chest…. but does it make me feel any better?  Does it bollocks.

Yours,

A most dejected Lord Luis

P.S. I would like to congratulate Blackpool and the legend that is Ian Holloway on their victory at Anfield. I wish our boys had even half the passion of yours. They are a credit to you and the Premier League. If only our team was as honest……. one can dream.

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