It's up to Liverpool's fans to reject Alex Ferguson's rubbish
We can't count on our manager, it seems.
Roy Hodgson is a decent manager. But Liverpool expects more.
We expect our managers to be figureheads and leaders, for better or worse.
A manager who says, "I don't want a piece of that" as the single greatest icon of our single greatest rival unjustifiably savages one of our star players doesn't mesh.
To vacate the field on the club's finances is one thing. But to put a personal friendship ahead of a necessary defence of our best player is well out of line.
The Torres comments were hardly the only ridiculous utterance from Ferguson.
He opened up on Friday by claiming,
"In the last regime they spent a lot of money on players - far more than Manchester United."
It is the case that Liverpool's net transfer spend is greater than United's over Rafa Benitez's spell in charge. But after considering salaries, United nonetheless spent far more on players than Liverpool during Rafa's spell.
Consider that in 2007-08 alone, United spent 40 million more on salaries than Liverpool.
The simple truth is Ferguson had far more resources to work with than Benitez.
Not that you can expect any of the senior officials of our debt riddled club to be fair or reasonable to the previous manager even if under assault from a rival club.
As for Ferguson's ridiculous "cricket-score" suggestion, little needs to be said. United created little more than we did.
Their first was a simple defensive mistake - exactly the kind you wouldn't see under zonal marking, incidentally.
The second was superlative, but hardly came after we'd been carved apart.
The third reflected that Carragher didn't pick Berbatov up quickly enough after retreating off the edge of the box.
That aside, it was a couple of Nani efforts, hopeful crosses and little else.
On our side, there were the two chances that led to goals, some Ngog efforts and Glen Johnson cutting in.
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Sack that F*CKWIT Hodgson NOW!!!!!!
And get rid of Glen Johnson hes SHITE!!!
The fact that Roy Hodgson did not defend Fernando Torres speaks volumes about where his loyalties lie and I have to say they are missplaced. Defending your own players from attacks like that is what any manager should do but Hodgson doesn't seem to be here to fight for Liverpool FC. A safe pair of hands to steady the ship while the current "custodians" run it to the ground. On the other hand, there are not that many managers who dare to oppose mr Ferguson.
The rant about Torres being a diver is absolutely ridiculous as both the penalty and free kick were clear fouls, mr Ferguson himself is the mentor of the greatest diver of them all, a certain C-Ron, and his own player Nani spent more time lying on the pitch than standing after the slightest of contacts or more often than not no contact whatsoever.
Fergie's cracking up. Another season fighting for Mickey Mouse cups.
That scumbag Ferguson is a lying cheat and the FA/Premier League need to do something about him soon. Who else would get away with criticising the linesman for 2 CORRECT decisions? O'Shea should have been sent off - no question at all. He tries to incite fans even after games. Other than the 3 goals and a Nani shot what did Pepe have to save so where does he get 10 from?!
alex is at it again,when oshae grabs daniel aggers collar he was only asking him if he would like to wash his shirt for him? what a sick man wil do to keep imself in the papers!!!!!!!
Good article,thanks.And I have to do hard.
fergie has no business in liverpool...the fans are still faithful to torres and so is torres being faithful to the team and the fans...
Finally a writer defending our club, our striker and our previous manager who i think would've wiped the floor with fergie if he'd been backed by the fools running the club.
Hodgson has to go, I wanted him loads but I've never seen anyone do so badly at a club.
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