Red_Rob

Sack the useless c*** now.

Staggering the lack of pressure the media are putting on him. There's no mention of possible successors, or even the acknowledgement that he's been a total failure at Liverpool. If he was a foriegner, they'd be printing his obituary.

This.

So he's still here then?

Can't risk upsetting his mate Fergie though, can he? “I know Sir Alex is not really a Liverpool man,” said *Hodgson, “so I’m a bit *concerned about my excellent relationship with him. “I sincerely hope he forgives me for moving north and hopefully we can have a glass of wine together, maybe in secret. “I hope that’s how he is going to see it – but he is one of the people I intend to ring to find out. “I rang the Fulham chairman (Mohamed Al Fayed). That was one phone call I had to get out of the way. Alex might be the next one.”

So he's still here then?

b******s.

Roy Hodgson's first statement as Liverpool manager still sums up everything about him to me and just why he's so wrong for the job as manager of Liverpool FC. “I know Sir Alex is not really a Liverpool man,” said ­Hodgson, “so I’m a bit ­concerned about my excellent relationship with him. “I sincerely hope he forgives me for moving north and hopefully we can have a glass of wine together, maybe in secret. “I hope that’s how he is going to see it – but he is one of the people I intend to ring to find out. “I rang the Fulham chairman (Mohamed Al Fayed). That was one phone call I had to get out of the way. Alex might be the next one.”

Martin O'Neill is a poor manager who would be found out in a hurry at Anfield but I'd still take him right now if it meant Hodgson were to go.

I'd take Souness back over Hodgson. Souness.

Good game tonight, looking promising.

In fairness away to that shower of cloggers is not the game for him.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/readeonsport/ MEMO to Kelvin MacKenzie: If you're doing nothing at 5.15 tonight why not tune in to the Liverpool v Arsenal game on BBC1, where you will find 12,000 Kopites expressing what they think of your persistent campaign to rubbish the findings of Lord Justice Taylor's Report into the Hillsborough Disaster. It will last a full six minutes. Or as long as 96 fans were left by police to die inside cages while an FA Cup tie played on in front of them in April 1989. But I don't need to remind you of the details, as you know them all. Even though you were 200 miles away at the time. Because some anonymous Yorkshire copper who was ordered to deflect attention away from his force's culpability, span you a pack of lies, which you gladly published as The Truth, and which cost your newspaper dear. Perhaps you still loathe yourself for being a submissive lackey who mouthed a false apology at Rupert Murdoch's behest or maybe you're too vain to accept hard evidence and let it go. Either way you're still telling audiences, like the one in Newcastle last month, The Truth about Hillsborough was that Liverpool fans got tanked up, stampeded a gate, killed their own, and as they lay dying, pissed on them and stole their belongings. I just hope the Kop's tribute to you evokes a fraction of the anger and pain your continued lies do to the many people still living with the harrowing consequences of British football's most tragic day. But I don't think it will. Which, Mr Mackenzie, is the saddest Truth of all.

Absolutly great idea, I'd definately buy some.

Now that's something I didn't expect to see... PA News Tory leader Michael Howard today described the article in The Spectator criticising Liverpool for wallowing in victim status over the murder of Ken Bigley and the Hillsborough football disaster as "nonsense from beginning to end."

I can't believe he didn't know what was in that article, I think he's probably surprised by the righteous indignation to it, and like a good Tory, is hoping that if he keeps his head low and avoids actually addressing the issue, it will all blow over.

PA have picked up on it now Liverpudlians were accused today of wallowing in their victim status over the murder of Ken Bigley and the Hillsborough football disaster in 1989. The Spectator, in a leading article, speaks of the extreme reaction to the death of Mr Bigley in Iraq and compares that to the reaction of the undeniably greater tragedy at Hillsborough in which scores of Liverpool supporters died. The article, which is unsigned but would have been written under the direction of its Tory MP editor Boris Johnson, is bound to provoke anger in Liverpool, just as the Sun newspaper was attacked for suggesting that the Hillsborough disaster may not have been the sole fault of the police. The Spectator suggests that 'drunken fans' might also have been to blame. This inaccurate and bigoted article immediately provoked a demand by Liverpool Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle, in the Liverpool Echo, for an immediate apology. But Mr Johnson, shadow culture minister, said: We certainly did not mean to offend anybody in Liverpool. The Spectator loves Liverpool. The article spoke of the mawkish sentimentality of a society that has become hooked on grief and likes to wallow in a sense of vicarious victimhood. It pointed out that there had been a two-minute silence for Mr Bigley in Liverpool, the same respect offered annually to the million-and-a-half British servicemen who had died for their country since 1914. The extreme reaction to Mr Bigley's murder is fed by the fact that he was a Liverpudlian. Liverpool is a handsome city with a tribal sense of community. A combination of economic misfortune - its docks were, fundamentally, on the wrong side of England when Britain entered what is now the European Union - and an excessive predilection for welfarism have created a peculiar and deeply unattractive, psyche among many Liverpudlians. They see themselves, whenever possible as victims, and resent their victim status, yet at the same time they wallow in it. Part of this flawed psychological state is that they cannot accept that they might have made any contribution to their misfortunes, but seek rather to blame someone else for it, thereby deepening their sense of shared tribal grievance against the rest of society. The deaths of more than 50 Liverpool football supporters at Hillsborough in 1989 was undeniably a greater tragedy than the single death, however horrible, of Mr Bigley, but that is no excuse for Liverpool's failure to acknowledge, even to this day, the part played in the disaster by drunken fans at the back of the crowd who mindlessly tried to fight their way into the ground that Saturday afternoon. The police became a convenient scapegoat, and the Sun newspaper a whipping boy for daring, albeit in a tasteless fashion to hint at the wider causes of the incident. (still can't believe he said that) Mr Kilfoyle, MP for Liverpool Walton, told the Liverpool Echo: It is inaccurate. It is outrageous and it is bigoted and it is the responsibility of the man who presumes to be shadow minister for culture, media and sport. He should immediately apologise for this disgraceful comment about Liverpool, and the tragedy at Hillsborough and the implied insult to the Bigley family. To single out Liverpool as somehow being psychologically flawed is absolutely outrageous. Mr Johnson, MP for Henley, told PA News: The point of the leader was to criticise the slight culture of mawkishness and sentimentality in this country which one associates with the death of the Princess of Wales. Phil Hammond, chair of the Hillsborough Support Group, called the opinion column an outrage . He said: They don't even know how many people died at Hillsborough - they wrote that it was `more than 50'. It would have taken them five seconds to look it up on the internet. It is an insult that they didn't even bother to check the facts. I do not think anybody has the right to make a judgment about something they do not understand. It is an outrage and we will be demanding an official apology.