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Who let his c**k out? Hodge! Hodge! Hodge! Who let his c**k out? Hodge! Hodge! Hodge!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1331745/Liverpool-boss-Roy-Hodgson-blasts-critics-You-wrote-far-early-season.html

Again he blames the young players that failed vs Northampton. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1331745/Liverpool-boss-Roy-Hodgson-blasts-critics-You-wrote-far-early-season.html As Liverpool move closer to top four manager Roy Hodgson tell critics: You wrote us off far too early this season Last updated at 2:33 PM on 21st November 2010 Comments (0) Add to My Stories Making his point: Roy Hodgson watched his Liverpool team beat West Ham on Saturday Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson believes his team have been tainted by two matches which have done 'untold damage' but insists the improvement from the start of the season shows they were written off too early. Liverpool's 3-0 win over West Ham at Anfield on Saturday evening was achieved with the minimum amount of fuss - somewhat helpfully in the injury-enforced absence of captain Steven Gerrard - against a side who struggled to rise above mediocre. The Reds' fourth victory in six Premier League matches came on the back of a defeat at Stoke the previous week, and lifted them to within touching distance of the top four. Having endured their worst start to a campaign since 1953/54 with six points from eight games they have now accrued 13 from their last six. Encouraging performances from Raul Meireles, given the freedom of central midfield by the Hammers, and Glen Johnson show there can be optimism despite Gerrard being sidelined for a month. Hodgson thinks, however, that his side is still being judged on their early-season form. 'There are two games this year which have done us untold damage,' he said. 'The first was when a total reserve team - although it does not seem to have been noticed we had 14 first-team players who didn't play - lost to Northampton in the Carling Cup.'The other was the disastrous (2-1) defeat to Blackpool at the end of a three-match week when we played in Europe. 'Those two defeats were costly for us because they encouraged people to make bold conclusions but we've lost one defeat in eight (in all competitions). 'There are still a lot of things to do but what pleased me against West Ham was the shape, discipline and organisation of the team. 'If we can keep that going with the quality of players we have got we can have a good season. 'Don't ask me what a good season is because I don't know but after the start we have had where we are now is making us feel pretty pleased.' Right-back Johnson returned after a three-match absence with a groin injury to score the first and put in a display which suggested he could very quickly rediscover his marauding form of old. Eye for goal: Glen Johnson fires home Liverpool's first goal against West Ham The England international chested down Meireles' corner to fire home before Dirk Kuyt converted from the spot after Danny Gabbidon's handball and Maxi Rodriguez headed in left-back Paul Konchesky's cross - all in the first 38 minutes. West Ham were complicit in allowing their hosts the time and space they needed to pick them apart but there were small signs Hodgson's blueprint is beginning to take shape. And his two full-backs are set to play a pivotal role. 'Glen was very good in everything he did, as was Paul on the other side,' added Hodgson. 'It was nice to see Glen scoring the first goal and Paul crossing for the third because we do try to do some work in getting our full-backs in advanced positions by using the space the midfield players create. 'It gives you a chance to cause your opponents more problems because your movements drag them around. 'If you play with wingers up there who hug the line all the time it is a little bit easier to mark them rather than having players who move off the line into other positions. On the spot: Dirk Kuyt scores with a penalty against West Ham 'If you can work on that aspect to your play and you have full-backs who know when to go forward and exploit the space and, more importantly, can deliver the ball then you have half a chance.' Central midfield was expected to be a concern with Gerrard and Jay Spearing both out for the foreseeable future and Lucas Leiva suspended but the much-criticised Christian Poulsen had his best game since arriving in the summer, admittedly against weak opposition. Meireles looked much happier operating centrally, where he does for Portugal, than he has done out wide. 'We work hard every day to win games but sometimes we don't win but we showed great football against West Ham,' said the 27-year-old. 'I feel more comfortable playing in the middle but I play where the coach wants.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1331745/Liverpool-boss-Roy-Hodgson-blasts-critics-You-wrote-far-early-season.html#ixzz15vlBPLfA

Let's buy this Cole guy, Woy. Looks amazing.

How on earth have West Ham managed to collect 9 points so far this season? They are absolutely shocking...

Yes, they are terrible.

Grant seems to be a believer in the same s*** tactics away that Hodgson is. Surprisingly he as 1 win in his last 16 away games with West Ham and Portsmouth.

It feels so wrong each time I see Woy walking around at Anfield with the LFC-logo on his chest.... God I hate this man.

Ah...thanks... Not that familiar with that expression. Not part of the Norwegian language at least;)

Pacheco to Coventry? Not even on loan? Is he saying that Hodgson has sent Pacheco to Coventry on a free transfer???

Classic stuff: http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2010/11/13/2212995/you-cannot-compare-chelsea-and-stoke-liverpool-manager-roy Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson believes that the unique challenge presented by Stoke City was the reason why his team were unable to continue their impressive recent form. Goals from Ricardo Fuller and Kenwyne Jones condemned Hodgson’s side to their first defeat in four league games, just as it seemed the Anfield club were getting their season back on track. Indeed, Liverpool had even beaten league leaders Chelsea last weekend as they put together a run of three league wins in a row, prior to Wednesday’s draw at Wigan Athletic. As such, Liverpool’s 2-0 defeat against Stoke came with an element of surprise, but Hodgson believes you cannot compare the challenges presented by Tony Pulis’ and Chelsea, and that his team coped better with the latter than the former. "Chelsea and Stoke are two very different teams aren't they? Today we've been defending long throws and long balls that are knocked forward towards our backline, corner kicks and balls flying into our penalty area,” he told ESPN after the game at Stoke’s Britannia Stadium. "Against Chelsea it's a team who are moving the ball across the field and you have to control them - I don't think you can compare games against Chelsea with games against Stoke. "Every team that comes here knows it's a very 'special' game. What you have got to do is defend as stoutly as we did in the first half and not concede that goal and do more than I thought we were able to do going forward.” Hodgson believes that his side’s inability to prevent Stoke from getting the opening goal in the game left his side more vulnerable to conceding again. "When the second goal came I was taking enormous risks and had the centre-half playing as a centre-forward. "The first goal came again from a long throw, which before we'd been defending as well as we can, but unfortunately after that first goal goes in you have to take a few more risks and throw a few men forward, which almost got us back into the game. "Unfortunately it didn't so we have to accept that we were beaten.” The Liverpool manager was not looking to evaluate his side’s defeat too closely at this point, but he did not think fatigue was a factor in their loss. "It's obviously a bad result - every time you lose it's a bad result. "It is always difficult to give sensible assessments after you've been beaten.” "I don't think it was a game too far [in terms of having the legs] because I felt we finished the game very strongly. I don't think it's a problem of legs, it's about coping with the problems that Stoke cause any team that comes here with the height and strength of their frontmen and backline. "We don't have a long throw in our armoury and had to deal with that from them and then try to use our weapons and we didn't do that well enough until the last 25 minutes." Hodgson thought that one reason behind his side’s inability to get back into the game after going behind was an injury picked up by striker Fernando Torres. However, the Spaniard remained on the pitch for the entirety of the game and the Reds boss expects him to be fit for Liverpool’s next game against West Ham on Saturday. "I don't know whether Torres' injury affected him in the second half, it probably did - so we missed him after the break. "It's a kick to the ankle and he's also twisted it a bit, but we've got a week so hopefully he'll be OK.”

Main problem with the squad for me is the passing ability from the current back 4. Not since the days of Tanner and Ablett have I seen such heavy feet.

Can't remember a poorer display from a Liverpool team ever....I want this f***ing clown out NOW!

We more or less sat back for 80 minutes. With 15 minutes left he takes Kuyt off and replace him with Poulsen....f***ing Christian Poulsen!! We are making Wigan look like Barcelona the last half an hour. This is embarrasingl. Please sack that f***** now!

Rafa, Rafael. Rafa, Rafael, Rafa, Rafael, Rafael Benitez.

Is it possible to bring the Rafatollah to the game against Chelsea? Would be nice to see the cameras zoom in on it and listening to Roy when they ask if he has any comments about it....

Agreed. I loved how he understood the club. He was so focused on the trinity between him, the players and the fans. He didn't care about satisfying the media or other managers. What mattered to him was Liverpool and Liverpool only. I hate the fact that our current manager has the totally opposite focus.

Rafa, I love you. http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/10/11/01/SOCCER_Liverpool_Benitez.html&TEAMHD=soccer RAFA SUGAR-COATS HODGSON RESPONSE By Ben Rumsby, Press Association Sport Rafael Benitez has launched another cryptic attack on the current regime at Liverpool, this time lambasting successor Roy Hodgson. Almost two weeks to the day since hitting out at then-managing director Christian Purslow and comparing his own departure from Anfield to a bottle of milk, Benitez claimed Hodgson could not "see a priest on a mountain of sugar". Inter Milan boss Benitez, back in England for Tuesday night's Champions League game at Tottenham, was responding to accusations from Hodgson that he had banned club ambassador and scout Kenny Dalglish from Liverpool's Melwood training ground during his time in charge. "I think that Mr Hodgson, he doesn't understand," Benitez said. "Every single press conference is even worse than the last one. He's talking about things that he doesn't know. "And some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar. "Maybe he hasn't been in Liverpool too long. We gave the fans their pride - again. We fought for the fans, we fought for the club and we fought for our players. "So maybe he cannot understand this." He added: "I brought back Kenny Dalglish to do a role in the club and Christian Purslow gave him another role. "He (Hodgson) doesn't know but I will explain it to him. "So, instead of talking about the flips or the flops, he has to concentrate on his players, try to do his best. "He has a good job to do." Once again defending his own record as Liverpool manager during a six-year reign that ended in the summer, Benitez said: "They've signed nine players. "With £10million net spending, I left that squad with £300million value, 13 internationals. "So, instead of talking about flips and flops, he has to concentrate on his job, try to do his best and not talk about the level of his players or the new players. "Concentrate, try to do your best because it will be the best for the club and it will be the best for the fans."

A good read about the new owners here. A section with some interesting stuff from Steve Nicol too. He's not exactly giving a lot of support to Roy. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1325016/Des-Kelly-Can-Liverpools-new-owners-revive-club-did-Boston-Red-Sox.html Anfield of dreams: The Red Sox owners have revived one sporting giant but can they do the same with Liverpool? By Des Kelly Reports from Boston Last updated at 1:02 AM on 30th October 2010 Comments (-) Add to My Stories It's certainly quite a welcome. When I arrive at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, two World Series trophies are out on the reception desk glittering in the light. The silverware cabinet is having its annual clean and I’m told this is why baseball’s greatest prizes just happen to be placed casually alongside used coffee mugs and an office stapler. The fact that the Red Sox are polishing up their Tiffany and Co creations just as a journalist arrives from England to discuss their acquisition of Liverpool seems a little too perfect, although I’m assured it is not deliberate. But slapping some silver on the table is a confident way for New England Sports Ventures to begin the conversation. One of sport's great venues: Des smiles for the camera on his visit to Fenway Park Peering inside Fenway Park, the heart of John W Henry’s Boston empire, is the surest way to establish how he operates. This is where Anfield’s new American owners have had a decade to impose and establish their methods. How does Henry compete? Can he succeed in the Premier League? There are many questions. But then Brenna, the Red Sox receptionist, asks whether I’d like my picture taken with a World Series trophy and they all have to wait for a moment while I grin for the camera like a starry-eyed tourist. The new owners: John W Henry and Tom Werner at Liverpool's recent clash with Everton Boston’s Fenway Park does that to a sports fan. It is more than just a building. It is part cathedral, part shrine and part movie set. The old bricks have absorbed almost a century of emotion, from Babe Ruth’s bitter departure to the New York Yankees, 86 years of championship failure, and on to the redemptive triumphs of 2004 and 2007. This is why the Red Sox have sold out a recordbreaking 631 consecutive games and why a quarter of a million people just turn up each year to take the stadium tour. Today proud sons of Boston still sit in the same cramped wooden seats their fathers and grandfathers used before them. The place is too knee-knockingly small for many of the demands of a more commercial age, yet it is too full of memories to be abandoned. Wisely, Henry and Co decided to renovate rather than replace after toying with a new stadium plan, and on the day I arrive the ball park is alive with noise as workmen upgrade sections of the arena. New seats, giant screens and walkways are being fitted into the old museum in the last stage of a 10-year plan. Then Red Sox chief operating officer Sam Kennedy, one of the team involved in sealing NESV’s deal to buy Liverpool, whisks me to a boardroom overlooking third base to explain how Henry works and clear up a few misconceptions. I point to the construction outside and wonder if this supports the assumption that Liverpool’s new 60,000-seat stadium project, abandoned by Tom Hicks and George Gillett, is dead and Anfield will be modernised in line with Fenway’s £200million facelift. ‘The idea that any decision has been made about Anfield is inaccurate,’ says Kennedy. ‘Henry has built his businesses on having the benefit of all of the information before he makes a call. Nothing is going to be done in a rush. I understand why people draw a link but, frankly, when NESV took over the Red Sox at the end of 2001, we didn’t know what to do — build a new facility or redevelop here? ‘It wasn’t until 2005 that we gave the commitment to stay at Fenway for the next generation. ‘We’ll do the same at Liverpool, listening and learning about what the employees, the council and supporters want before making any move, for however long it takes.’ The presence of two major figures among the NESV investors, co-owner and Red Sox chairman Tom Warner and Boston CEO Larry Lucchino, is also significant, since they were behind the new venue built for the San Diego Padres baseball team before joining Henry on the East coast. So the final call on Anfield will be a cold calculation, not a sentimental one. ‘At Fenway we wanted to preserve one of the most important ball parks in the country,’ Kennedy explains. ‘But if we didn’t think it could work economically we would not have pursued it. We have the expertise for building new and renovating old, and both options are definitely still on the table.’ Sheer ecstasy: The Red Sox celebrate after winning the World Series in 2007 If the decision is to remain at Anfield, then fans will pay if Boston is to be any kind of measure. The Red Sox always rank among the top five paymasters of the major leagues, often second only to the New York Yankees. But, with a much smaller stadium, the revenue shortfall is vast and ticket prices have rocketed to bridge the gap, as Bostonians continually complain. A winning team tends to stifle criticism and, although Boston missed out on the play-offs this year, Henry has enough credit to avoid the brickbats. But Liverpool are waiting to see what their new man is made of. There has been speculation Henry will let Liverpool flounder without major reinforcements in the January transfer window and even oversee every deal himself. However the people who work with him regard most of this as fantasy, and he went out of his way to pour scorn on the claims on Friday. Kennedy is well placed to add insight. He has been shuttling to and fro across the Atlantic completing the due diligence on the Anfield books and, alongside his Red Sox role, he is also president of Henry’s marketing company, the Fenway Sports Group, and liaising between Liverpool, the Red Sox and NESV. ‘Henry is a man who creates an environment for people to do their jobs,’ he says. ‘He does not micromanage. We may share some ideas and best practices, but Liverpool will be run by their own management team. That is how he operates with all his companies.’ The agony: Liverpool have had a dreadful start to the season and were bundled out of the Carling Cup by Northampton Looking back through Red Sox ‘best practices’, Henry’s regime usually recruit free agents, such as designated hitter David Ortiz and pitcher John Lackey, and promote young prospects. It’s worked in Boston and Henry and his team are bullish the ame strategy will work at Liverpool. But, in the absence of any swift announcements at Anfield, quotes have been represented as dramatic shifts in transfer policy, while stories circulate declaring Fernando Torres and Pepe Reina have secret get-out clauses in their contracts that they intend to trigger because of the sense of inertia. NESV insist they are not rattled by the adverse publicity. Henry has come out fighting at the ‘destructive’ coverage, insisting nobody of quality is for sale and there will be sufficient funds to buy new players. The mantra is ‘strengthen not weaken and plan for the long term — just as it always has been at the Red Sox’. Of course, there is another factor that might impinge on the American owners’ long-term view. Top flight US sport does not usually have to concern itself with the inconvenient threat of relegation, with all the associated panic. Finish bottom of the pile in the States and you are usually handed the best player in the draft and offered a helping hand to start anew. Finish bottom in the Premier League and everything plummets through a trap door, including untold millions in cash, before rivals dine on the club carcass. ‘I’ll be honest here, the very idea of relegation is a frightening one,’ Kennedy admits. ‘Nobody is comfortable looking at the league table and seeing Liverpool near the bottom. But it’s early and we will give the club the support they need to be in a better position. Under pressure: Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson ‘If you look at all of Henry’s businesses, there has always been stability. We’re here to compete. That’s why NESV invested — they want to win.’ In fact the Red Sox have a rule for the way they do business in sport. It consists of three words. ‘Do No Harm.’ The phrase was coined by Boston’s Lucchino and covers everything from the way they negotiate with the playing staff to the sympathetic renovation of a famous old stadium. This is the principle they intend to apply to Liverpool. Kennedy says: ‘We’ll work through it and build the organisation the right way. Guys like Henry and co-owner Tom Werner could do all sorts of things with their lives. They are hugely successful men. But they chose this — and it will be done properly.’ I travel 30 miles south from Boston to get a second opinion. All the way to the Gillette Stadium, home of NFL’s New England Patriots and New England Revolution ‘soccer’ team, which dominates the landscape like a huge open clamshell. It is the adopted home of former Liverpool defender and Footballer of the Year, Steve Nicol. As head coach of the Revolution for eight years he has carved out a successful Stateside career, so much so that he has been touted as a future boss of the US team and linked with a possible return to Anfield if Roy Hodgson cannot turn his season around. Nicol is well placed to judge the credentials of Henry and Co and he has no doubt about the owners, just qualified reservations about the manager. ‘These people understand what running an enterprise like Liverpool is about,’ he says. ‘The Red Sox are held in the same sort of esteem as my old club and they’ve kept their traditions, taken care of the name and won championships. ‘I can’t remember any otherowners coming into football with a background like that, can you?’ Having made 346 appearances in 14 years at Anfield, Nicol still ensures he sees every Liverpool game, although it is done with a grimace these days. Former favourite: Steve Nicol now lives and works in the United States ‘It’s becoming hard to watch them,’ he says. ‘I’m at the point where I record the match and wonder whether I should check the score beforehand just to spare myself all the anguish. ‘It’s torture. I sit here in my house going absolutely mental at the screen. I can’t imagine what it’s been like for the fans at the ground.’ So how do the American owners turn things around? ‘The hardest decision they have to make is who to give the money to? Do they give a transfer pot to Hodgson in the January transfer window, or do they wait? ‘I believe they will wait. They will strengthen the team in a couple of positions in January, but they won’t go crazy this time around, not unless some superstar drops from the sky right into their laps. ‘They’ve already forgotten about the Champions League. Next season will be the big push — and that means spending serious money. Right now, they won’t be 100 per cent convinced Hodgson is the man they want to give that money to. 'That’s not meant as a slight on Roy, it’s only natural for any new owners to want to wait and see. ‘The trickiest challenge is always picking the football side. Luckily for NESV, that’s where someone like Kenny Dalglish can also help. He’s been there and done it, whether it's managing, operating behind the scenes or scouting players. Not many clubs have someone like that sitting on their doorstep.’ Their other big decision is on the future of the stadium. ‘Liverpool should go it alone and build a new ground — a bigger and better one,’ says Nicol. ‘Here the Gillette Stadium holds 68,000. But it’s not just about the games. It’s a modern complex. Every day there are conferences, or trade fairs and all of that brings in more revenue. I’ve heard that talk about ground sharing with Everton, but there’s no point in building a new ground if you have to halve the profits afterwards.’ So would Nicol ever come back to Merseyside if asked? ‘I’m settled on the East Coast,’ he says. ‘The children are here and my grandson is too now. But you never know what might turn up, do you?’ Cheer we go: but nobody at the famous bar knew Torres Back to Boston, for the obligatory stop at the Cheers bar made famous by the long-running situation comedy. It’s the place ‘where everybody knows your name’. Only they don’t. Not even if you are Fernando Torres. Boston might be obsessed by sport, but football still fails to register much interest. I showed American drinkers photographs of Liverpool’s biggest stars and asked them to identify the faces. One asked if Torres was in Glee. A couple thought Hodgson was ‘the guy running for Governor who got into trouble’, which was closer to the truth than they could possibly know. The response would be similar no doubt, albeit more blunt, if I waved Red Sox pictures around a Liverpool bar. But everyone knew who Henry was — ‘that Red Sox guy’. Two trips to Fenway Park are more than enough to endorse NESV’s credentials and it is patently obvious Henry has got it right with the Red Sox. Serious tests loom in the Premier League, however, that will test his instincts and resources. Should Hodgson’s side stumble at Bolton on Sunday and, with Napoli and Chelsea lying in wait, the long-term planning and instructions to ‘Do No Harm’ go out of the window. There will be sackings and strife, which is a path Henry is obviously loathe to take, but otherwise any harm suffered will be self-inflicted. The fact that Henry has gone on the offensive at last, tackling the speculation, can only be an encouraging sign. But, as they say in Cheers, ‘making your way in the world today, takes everything you’ve got…’ We’re about to find out how much that really is. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1325016/Des-Kelly-Can-Liverpools-new-owners-revive-club-did-Boston-Red-Sox.html#ixzz13pqBhYik

I want to read some nice rumours about board meetings, players meeting to discuss Roy, Kenny meeting up with new potential managers....whatever as long as it gives me hope that the end is getting nearer for Roy. Please someone, make something up.

"It is sad these stories surface," Hodgson said. "There is no truth in them, they have no meaning. Reina and Torres are excellent trainers and their commitment to the club is as good as ever. There is no question they are anything other than committed. "It is destructive but it depends on how you deal with it. It is fantastic so many people want to write nonsense about us because it must mean we are still a big club. "The trick is to get on with the job, be happy and let the birds sing." Ahead of this weekend's game at Bolton, Hodgson says he hopes his team "carry on from where we left off" against Blackburn, but he accepts there is still plenty of improvement needed. "If we can produce the performances and results we will definitely be stronger but we do still need to do a bit of work," he said. "If I am being honest, when I came to the club there were a lot of things that needed changing. "Not least of all the ownership issue - which was the major one - but there were a lot of things we wanted to do differently. "Some of the things we asked to do will require the owners' permission and will cost a lot of money, so there is still a lot of work to do." http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=837133&sec=england&cc=5739 Please, don't give this maniac any money. I am so f***ing fed up hearing this guy saying how many things he needs to change. You are destroying my passion for the sport, Roy. f*** off.

Please, let this happen, please, please.

It really feels like he's been saying something ridicolous every single day since he was appointed, so yes, bring on today's joke. If the jerk managed some other team it would be f***ing hilarious, now it's quite depressing...

More good stuff from the crazy man: http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_6468574,00.html Sunderland (2-2) was not that bad. Blackpool (a 2-1 defeat) was such a wretched first-half performance where we shot ourselves in the foot and couldn't get back in. "Everton last week (a 2-0 defeat) I thought we paid a high price for the second goal, which shouldn't have been allowed. "We allowed Everton to get on top of us in the first 20 minutes by passing the ball too short and never turning them round

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/clubfootball/news/newsid=1323871.html?cid=rssfeed&att= Hodgson: Liverpool on road to recovery(AFP) Monday 25 October 2010 Print Email my friend Share Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson believes his team are making slow but steady progress on the road to recovery after scoring a morale-boosting win over Blackburn. Hodgson has faced question marks over his future after the English giants slumped to their worst start to the season for 57 years, which has left them in the relegation zone even after Sunday's 2-1 victory over Rovers. But the former Fulham boss is refusing to get carried away by this weekend's win over fellow strugglers Blackburn, even if he does believe Liverpool are showing signs of improvement. "I'd be lying if I said it felt like a turning point. That would be a facile thing to say," Hodgson said. "I've got faith in the team and the way we played in several of the games. We were worse at the beginning but we have got better." I've got faith in the team and the way we played in several of the games. We were worse at the beginning but we have got better.Roy Hodgson, Liverpool manager Hodgson said he had been encouraged by statistics from Liverpool's 2-0 defeat in the Merseyside derby to Everton, which indicated the team were on the right track. "I saw the statistics the other day from the Everton game and I've never in my Premier League career seen statistics as positive as they were in terms of passing, accuracy and tempo of passing, number of shots and crosses," he said. "Those statistics hearten you because you know you are not playing badly but they don't get you any points. We had the same level of passing and intensity against Blackburn but we were much more incisive, getting behind them down the flanks more. "It was the right sort of performance; we've got to give another 29 like that and if we can do that then we won't go too far wrong." Liverpool's next league assignment is a potentially awkward visit to Bolton on Sunday. WTF??