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His last sentence just says it all really - put your hand up Roy you've been rumbled!

Yes, he had a nasty run in with the Egyptians a few thousand years ago and they mummified him but unity of Poulsen and Konchesky meant he was able rise from the dead to continue his dastardly work

Nah its b****x, Roy doesnt do email he uses tablets of stone to communicate!

Get it right he's from sarf London! ;-)

Its started, Talks****, the Telegraph, Mirror and others are all laying into him big style - its the beginning of the end of this nightmare

Yes there were a few numpties calling in but by and large everyone said it was too big a job and he is being found out

Hodgson's own goals - in the Telegraph After taking Fulham to the Europa League final after the west Londoners brushed aside Shakhtar Donetsk, Juventus, Wolfsburg and Hamburg in the knockout stages, Hodgson's side lost the final to Atlético Madrid. It was Hodgson's second defeat in the final of European club football's second-tier tournament after he managed, despite being clear favourites to win, to lose the 1997 Uefa Cup final to Schalke while managing Inter Milan. League triumphs in Scandinavia and two final defeats was hardly the kind of curriculum vitae to impress Kopites who had just bid farewell to Benítez, a European Cup, Uefa Cup, FA Cup and two-time winner of Spain's La Liga. However, match-going supporters, stayed tight-lipped and gave Hodgson a chance. Patience, though, is wearing thin for Hodgson following Wednesday night's dismal 0-0 draw at home to Utrecht and his pre-match apology over Fernando Torres's exclusion is just the latest blunder in a series of embarrassing gaffes. August 2010 Following a high-scoring weekend in the Premier League Liverpool travelled to the City of Manchester Stadium to face Roberto Mancini's Manchester City. For the travelling supporters, though, the short journey up the East Lancs Road must have felt like walking the plank. Especially following Hodgson's 'joke' ahead of the match. “I hope we don’t get beaten 6-0," he said before the numerous online forums went into meltdown. Liverpool later lost 3-0. Ferguson v Torres September 2010 Following Liverpool's 3-2 defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford in September Hodgson angered supporters after failing to defend the honour of Torres. Torres had been accused of cheating by Sir Alex Ferguson, his United counterpart, after the Spaniard won a penalty to draw level at 2-2 before Dimitar Berbatov went on to score a late winner. "I have watched it again. Fernando Torres made a meal of it, an absolute meal of it," said Ferguson following the match on September 19. "There is no doubt he tried to get the player sent off." With Liverpool fans seething at Ferguson's comments Hodgson remained silent. Until, that is, five days later when he finally reacted. Though not in the way fans would expect. "Alex is a good friend of mine," he said. "Fernando Torres is not a cheat, he has proved that time and time again. He is a very respected player, he is strong and takes players on and not easy to stop and he is going to get fouls like he did for the equalising goals. There is no danger of us cheating. "Well, possibly I'm learning as I go along. I didn't think it was necessary to say it because it was insulting people's intelligence." Blind faith following derby defeat October 2010 Following a dismal performance in the 2-0 defeat to Everton at Goodison Park Hodgson claimed that it was the team's best performance of the season. “This was always going to be a difficult game to win," he said. “To get a result here and win the game would have been utopia. I hope that fair-minded people see the game the same way. I think it’s a bit unfortunate that after such a good game of football, everything revolves around the fact that Liverpool didn’t win it. “We didn’t score goals and Everton did but I refuse to accept that we were in any way outplayed or any way inferior. I watched the performance and the second half was as good as I saw a Liverpool team play under my management that is for sure."

An hour of Hodgson slagging coming up!

I bet VDV is thanking his lucky stars he didnt join us in the summer.....

Talkcrap sound like they will be laying into RFH from 10am - may actually be worth a listen - hopefully this is the beginning of the media backlash

My big fear is that we have a run of home games over the busy christmas period coming up so his frailties are not going to be exposed as much thus giving him more time. As we have so many games I cant see him being sacked but unfortunately that period then takes us to the transfer window and lord only knows what pile if s**** is going to be bought

Sunday supplement mentioned his away record and although stopped short of saying he should be sacked did say he was under pressure because of it and that be wasn't the owners choice

Damn and blast Newcastle - thats scuppered my Hodgson out bet!

Nail on head! Has he been reading this forum?

Hes an embarrassment - I dont even know if the comments are spoof or real any more they are that fanciful!

Was glad to see that RH wasnt wheeled out to support the England 2018 bid - heaven only knows what he would have said

To be fair he does always look knackered......

I really dont want to know about Roy's schlong! Its like talking about an elderly relative

Lol hes at it again - blaming the press for the fans reactions! Roy Hodgson declined to enter the row over Steven Gerrard's hamstring injury yesterday after the Liverpool captain urged him to draw a line under Fabio Capello's costly decision to persist with the midfielder against France. Liverpool expect to be without their influential captain for four weeks after he suffered a hamstring tear in the 84th minute of England's friendly defeat on Wednesday, despite a pre-match agreement between Franco Baldini, the general manager, and Damien Comolli, Liverpool's new director of football strategy, that he would play only an hour. Hodgson called Darren Burgess, Liverpool's head of fitness and conditioning, naive and foolish for the Twitter outburst that labelled England and the Football Association amateurish and incompetent in the immediate aftermath of Gerrard's injury. However, after a personal intervention from Gerrard, the Liverpool manager refused to reveal his true feelings on the matter, other than to say he was "disappointed and a bit angry" and did not expect an apology or a call from Capello. "My interest is Liverpool FC and Steven Gerrard is very much an important part of that," Hodgson said. "When I spoke to him this morning he was at pains to say to me: 'Don't prolong this debate, please say as little as you can and be as diplomatic as you can, I know how you feel.' He feels, like me, that it's a sad thing to have happened and he's very disappointed about it, but he doesn't want to give even more reasons for a debate to rage. "I respect that and secondly I understand it's going to happen and there's going to be debate and discussion about the value of friendly matches. I'm not stupid, I just don't think it's a good thing for me to get involved in, especially in this situation." Gerrard has already begun rehabilitation work to recover within four weeks. "He doesn't accept for one minute that this will take a month," said his manager. Though Liverpool remain privately aggrieved at Capello's handling of the issue, and the FA has confirmed its insurers will reimburse the club for Gerrard's wages while he is sidelined, Hodgson said there is little to be gained by prolonging the dispute. "You have to accept when there are midweek international games and your players are called up that it's a fear you always have. I don't know that I'm being diplomatic, I'm simply refusing to prolong a debate. Our fitness coach, Darren, in his naivety and his frustration was foolish enough to voice an opinion on a Twitter page and that's led to these two days of vitriol and I think it's time that it stopped. "I can do nothing about Steven's injury, he can do nothing, it's a fact of life and we've got to live with it. I'm just determined to focus on a very important game against West Ham." Liverpool's central midfield options against West Ham have also been reduced by an ankle injury to Jay Spearing and the suspension of Lucas Leiva following his dismissal at Stoke last weekend. That 2-0 defeat prompted more calls for Kenny Dalglish to replace Hodgson as manager, but the man chosen to succeed Rafael Benítez as manager this summer claimed the antagonism has been fuelled by the media rather than anaemic performances. "I am not getting into the fans. If I am to be frank, the way you have been writing has made my position a lot worse than the fans," Hodgson said. "You can take that as you want. Every time I speak to you about fans, you seem to have a complete monopoly on how every fan thinks. How many of them? There will always be a certain number of people who wanted a different manager and are probably still unhappy they did not get that manager. "I have every faith in Liverpool fans. Every manager who has come to this club has been well supported by the fans. Every manager has gone through periods where the team has not achieved what the fans would like them to achieve, so I have no fears in that respect. I understand that they are not happy but we are in a position where if I were a fan I wouldn't be either." Fernando Torres, meanwhile, has said Hodgson retains the full support of the Liverpool squad and that he has no personal issue with the manager. In an interview with a Spanish radio station, the striker said: "The squad here trusts in Hodgson and so do I. It is not simple to begin a new project with a different coach in a club where it is always required to fight for every competition. "You have to adapt to new ways to create a winning team and that is never easy. I have no problem with Hodgson. He's a very serious coach who in the summer explained to me very clearly what he wanted from me. He has always trusted in me and that's very important for any footballer." The West Ham manager Avram Grant, meanwhile, said his side can upstage Liverpool today. "It's always not easy to play at Anfield, especially when Liverpool need the points," he said. "But we have lost just twice in 11 games, we want to continue with that and a little bit more."." Grauniad

Problem is they will then follow it up with a campaign about people nearing pension age being unfairly sacked and unable to work.....

danroan Dan Roan Football Focus, BBC1 12.10 - live from Old Trafford - feat. JWHenry, Chmn Werner, Ferdinand Could be worth watching - shame about the location and their other guest tho......

Count me in!

It was Vicky Gommershall and she is getting pelters

He was asked the question and he fired it back with both barrels I think we all would given the situation I think we should let the inter fans know just what a special man they have!