The Football.....

[mangaman]

he's one of the KISS school, he's coached Internazionale, Switzerland and Finland successfully, and he can pick the team - which he couldn't at Liverpool. We could do worse than somebody who says 'do this, do that' and doesn't pick Stephen Gerrard.

Totally agree.

I´d rather have Roy than `arry every time. Harry has only ever won the FA Cup with Portsmouth - by overspending and effectively killing the club.

Roy has an excellant record at International level, built a Fulham side from nothing much and was supposedly a failure at Liverpool, until you consider Dalgleish`s spending and how crap Liverpool have been this year. Hodgson has taken West Brom to 3 points behind Liverpool on a shoestring.

I seem to recall Roy`s West Brom winning at Anfield 0-1 a few weeks ago - which must have made Roy chuckle.

As Dell says, he has the nous to play a team - not just automatically pick Gerard, Lampard, Rooney et al - he will pick a system first, pick the best players to fit that system then get the best out of those players.

It sounds simple - but too few British managers do it. They are dazzled by the glamour players and try to build teams around individuals.

The best managers devise several systems and buy players to fill gaps in the system. That´s why Norwich and Swansea for example have been more succesful than QPR - they have a style and if a Grant Holt plays for 4th division Shrewsbury, but is the missing link needed we will buy him, rather than a fading Premiership journerman.

 

[mangaman]

But evidently not Scouse. His troubled stay at LFC was a big setback for him and it might be the only thing that people will remember about him when the pressure mounts (and it will...).

Well that would be be a shame as he wasn´t given a chance at Liverpool.

Look at the shambles Dalgleish has presided over this year with an enormous transfer budget - West Brom are 3 points behind with 2 games left and no money. I think I´d rather have Hodgeson than Dalgleish as my manager every time

 

[dellzeqq]

I'm just back from what must have surpassed all previous depths of awfulness ever served up at that once famous football ground. I've never left before the final whistle previously but today I'd stood all I could and went with 20 minutes left. That is, apparently, the first time Fulham have ever won a league match in the city of Liverpool. Mind you, Liverpool were lucky to get nil. If it was the aim to gee those reserves up to force their way into the team for the Cup Final on Saturday, it was a massive failure. Our best player was a kid who was on the pitch for less than 15 minutes. I'd gone before his introduction so I can't say if he deserved it but to have given any player on the pitch for the duration the MOM award would have been a breach of the Trades Descriptions act.

I think that Benitez (and Alonso and Mascherano) saw the writing on the wall. A team that, seven years ago, could win the most remarkable Champions League final that I can remember now seems to be in the grip of a collective self-delusion, a self-delusion that Hodgson couldn't dispel and Dalglish has nurtured.

 

[MarkF]

The difference is that Liverpool have won the League Cup and are in the FA Cup Final, with Hodgson they went out in the early rounds, so they are better with Dalglish.

If you say so, but King Kenny + £105 million =12th and a trophy from a competition where most "big" clubs play their reserves doesn't look like progress to me. Yes, I watched the game last night. I think the current owners + Roy Hodgson + £105 million might have had a rather different result.

It's quite sad to see Liverpool where they are now, they were footballs dominant force throughout my youth, now reduced to competing with Fulham, Everton to be the best of the rest................

 

[ceepeebee]

I'm just back from what must have surpassed all previous depths of awfulness ever served up at that once famous football ground. I've never left before the final whistle previously but today I'd stood all I could and went with 20 minutes left. That is, apparently, the first time Fulham have ever won a league match in the city of Liverpool. Mind you, Liverpool were lucky to get nil. If it was the aim to gee those reserves up to force their way into the team for the Cup Final on Saturday, it was a massive failure. Our best player was a kid who was on the pitch for less than 15 minutes. I'd gone before his introduction so I can't say if he deserved it but to have given any player on the pitch for the duration the MOM award would have been a breach of the Trades Descriptions act.

I managed to watch it to the end, think I was watching Irish ESPN or similar - maybe US, but Steve McManaman was beside himself the whole way through, and quite rightly so. Sterling was v quick, and v eager - showed a good touch too.... so he put the rest of the players on the pitch to shame.

 

[Rasmus]

Excellent win for Motherwell at Tynecastle last night, making Champions League football at Fir Park now a near-certainty. I can't wait!

 

[MarkF]

Excellent win for Motherwell at Tynecastle last night, making Champions League football at Fir Park now a near-certainty. I can't wait!

How is Omar Daley doing?

 

[Rasmus]

How is Omar Daley doing?

He's been decent, but unimpressive. After a good spell before Christmas, he's mostly been playing backup for fellow Jamaican winger Chris Humphrey, who's been in mostly good form this spring.

 

[Gooner Mad Dog]

Some big games tonight needless to say will be rooting for Bolton & a Chelsea / Newcastle draw

 

[dellzeqq]

well, it's kind of what you'd expect

I'd have thought that 3rd place was pretty well nailed down for you, GMD. Strange to say, that's exactly the result Spurs fans will be looking for.

PS - don't forget the FNRttC!!!!!

 

[Smokin Joe]

well, it's kind of what you'd expect

I'd have thought that 3rd place was pretty well nailed down for you, GMD. Strange to say, that's exactly the result Spurs fans will be looking for.

PS - don't forget the FNRttC!!!!!

I saw that this morning and thought it was disgraceful. The FA have quite rightly complained to NI about it. Were I in charge the Sun would be barred from attending England matches and press conferences at least until they made a grovelling front page apology.

 

[PaulB]

They scored 2 goals at the Camp Nou - probably one of the few teams to do so apart from Real Madrid.

Saying "they parked the bus" etc is just ignorance.

They technically and tactically outmanoevered them over 2 legs despite having Terry sent off and Cahill injured. With no centre backs for most of the 2nd leg, they pretty comfortably won the thing from where I was watching.

Edit - Robben was the worst diver / whinger I`ve seen in the Prem - much worse than Drogba and he plays for, errm .. Bayern

No, Liverpool beat them 2-1 over there (I was at that one, me) and had the rich-man's plaything not been captained by one of the most reprehensible forms of life ever to have crawled out from under a rock, they may have seen fit to play a slightly different way. If he hadn't insulted the Americans in the immediate aftermath of 9-11 and wasn't a sickening racist and an arrogant my-shoot-don't-stink bully on and off the pitch, and maybe if his mother (so legend has it) been overly fond of a certain Liverpudlian delicacy, he wouldn't be as despised as he is. But you come out with the fact of his sending off as though it were some unfathomable capriciousness of the referee! That having occurred, they had no option but to 'park the bus' so 'ignorance' is emanating from one of us here, I think.

 

[potsy]

I'm afraid not... as much as both teams are playing well at the moment. Chelsea at home? We both know that Newcastle do not travel well to or get much of a way in results in the capital.

 

[ianrauk]

yup fair play to the geordie maggots. they wanted it more then us tonight.

 

[Ajay]

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