Liverpool have to sack Hodgson now
Pass and move, it’s the Liverpool groove? Not any more. The Hodgson way is more hoof and pray. As endless long punts were hammered towards Fernando Torres and David Ngog during last night’s defeat to Wolves, it became increasingly impossible to justify Roy Hodgson lasting at Anfield beyond the end of the week. Patience has its virtues, and chairmen can be trigger-happy, but it is hardly compulsory; Hodgson’s time is up. He simply has to go. Forget about giving him extra time and the chance to dip into the transfer market in January. Trust has to be earned and Hodgson has failed. Liverpool are perched three points above the bottom three. Losing to Northampton Town, Blackpool and Wolves at Anfield in the space of six months, no matter what financial constraints Hodgson has had to work under, is a grotesque underachievement for a club of Liverpool’s elevated standing.
Sådan skriver The Guardian’s Jacob Steinberg indledningsvis i dag, ovenpå det håbløse nederlag til Wolves i aftes. Læs mere af hans sønderlemmende Roy Hodgson-kritik lige her.
Ja, en vild udtalelse at komme med, fra samme mand )der senere lavede endnu et verbalt selvmål ved at kritisere The Kop). Som om 0-0 havde været acceptabelt. Som om Hodgson’s Liverpool i går overhovedet var i nærhden af at fortjene uafgjort mod Wolves. Det var de ingenlunde.
Forbløffende at høre ham på 5 Live, hvor han med vis overbevisning argumenterede for at hans hold altså havde fortjent 0-0 mod Wolves. Ikke engang “uafgjort”, men “0-0”.