Liverpool FC Forum

by **NANNY RED** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:40 pm

What do you reckon,

by **andy_g** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:55 pm

i reckon the one where they are both smiling and laughing with each other never got released

by **RED BEERGOGGLES** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:05 pm

NANNY RED wrote:What do you reckon,

I reckon the photo would have provided a great deal more credibility if the manager had made eye contact .....to me personally that picture speaks volumes especially the body language of our current incumbent .....definitely been a few choice words thrown around

by **Benny The Noon** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:13 pm

by **andy_g** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:14 pm

people are going to read all sorts into this photo if there are things there they want to see. i'm not for a moment denying that there might be no love lost between torres and hodgson, as there might be, but this picture isn't exactly the smoking gun. like i tried to point out in my earlier post, we don't know if there were pictures taken a second or two before that one or a second or two after it (photographers seem to always have their cameras on autoshoot these days) that show smiles, eye contact... who knows, even a hug. if they don't like each other why are they even shaking hands in training in the first place? has torres gone to shake hands with hodgson while hodgson's attention was focussed on something else? there are a thousand ways to interpret the photo and the moments immediately before and after it was taken. a video clip would be much more revealing if anyone has one.

people are often complaining that the media purposefully twist the evidence and paint a negative picture of liverpool football club. why should the fans do the same? there is a huge story the media are salivating over about a fall out between hodgson and torres and this picture makes it easy for them. doesn't mean its nailed on true though.

by **Benny The Noon** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:15 pm

by **tubby** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:28 pm

Look we all know as soon as these 28 days or whenever are up Roy will be off too. I just hope we hang onto Torres and Roy doesn't do any more damage between now and then.

by **The Good Yank** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:30 pm

Where is that banner from last year? "As always we continue to support our manager" I think it needs to be dusted off. The lack of support that Hodgson has been the brunt of is deplorable from "The Greatest Fans on Earth."

by **metalhead** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:58 pm

The Good Yank wrote:Where is that banner from last year? "As always we continue to support our manager" I think it needs to be dusted off. The lack of support that Hodgson has been the brunt of is deplorable from "The Greatest Fans on Earth."

unfortunately dude, the word quotation in the end of your post has been gone, shame.

I agree with andy as well as for interpreting the pictures.

by **ruskiy playmaker** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:06 pm

The Good Yank wrote:Where is that banner from last year? "As always we continue to support our manager" I think it needs to be dusted off. The lack of support that Hodgson has been the brunt of is deplorable from "The Greatest Fans on Earth."

Yeah good idea, lets support the manager into relegation.

by **NANNY RED** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:18 pm

NANNY RED wrote:What do you reckon,

Torres : "When you say' three two three two', is that our new shape?"
Woy: "I said 'twee twoo, twee twoo' "

I robbed that from somewhere else :laugh:

Brilliant

by **NANNY RED** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:49 pm

TWO AND A HALF YEARS IS HE OFF HIS ROCKER I WOULDNT GIVE HIM TWO MORE WEEKS

Hodgson takes a pop at Rijkaard and defends his record as Rovers boss
Published 23:00 23/10/10 By Simon Mullock

Recommend

Roy Hodgson has insisted he can cope with the pressure of being Liverpool boss – and has ridiculed suggestions that Frank Rijkaard should replace him at Anfield.

The Merseysiders, without a win in seven matches at home and abroad, face their manager’s former club Blackburn today ensconced in a relegation battle and with Hodgson under intense scrutiny after New England Sports Ventures’ takeover.

Rijkaard, the Dutchman who guided Barcelona to two La Liga titles and the Champions League, is being linked to Liverpool following his sacking by Galatasaray this week.

But Hodgson is not prepared to walk away from the Reds without a fight, saying: “I had two-and-a-half years of this kind of thing when I was at Inter when, every day, there would be stuff in the newspapers that someone was going to get my job.

“If I took two and a half years of that in Milan I can take two and a half years of it here.

“It ended up with my being offered a new contract by Inter when I left for Blackburn.

“The doom and gloom that surrounds us is not coming from within the club, not from me and not from the players – it’s coming from people outside who are having a field day and delighting in the fact we are having a bad time.

“Rijkaard has just been sacked from Galatasaray - he must be a great manager to have been sacked by Galatasaray! What you are talking about is Frank Rijkaard’s agent putting his name around. It is all speculation.”

Hodgson spent 18 months at Blackburn after quitting Inter in 1997, but was sacked with Rovers bottom of the table and heading for relegation.

He said: “At Blackburn, I took a team that avoided relegation by one point to the UEFA Cup when we finished sixth in the league.

“That seems somehow to be forgotten when the next season we had a lot of injury problems and found that things were not going so well. But in that first season we were being feted everywhere and I was being tipped as the next England manager, but after a poor start the following season I didn’t get a chance to follow it through.

“I am sure that if I had been given a chance to follow it through, I would have dealt with that one too. You do get bad periods and I have been lucky in having had more good ones than bad ones.

“At Blackburn, 18 months of work got judged on the last two or three months when we did poorly. But that is the business.

“So many good things have been written about me over the last two and a half years that it would be churlish of me to start complaining. But I wasn’t happy about the way my time at Blackburn was perceived.”

Skipper Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres were left behind as a weakened Liverpool team drew 0-0 in Napoli on Thursday night.

Hodgson said: “Now it is up to the players who will be fresh from not having taken part to step up to the plate.

“We have left more than two behind - there is Meireles, there is Johnson, there is Leiva; Jamie Carragher played half the game, Joe Cole only came on at the end.

“I think we won’t be taking any fatigue into the match. It doesn’t always work that way, but we won’t have that as an excuse if we don’t go on and win the game.”

Read more: [url=http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Liverpool-boss-Roy-Hodgson-has-taken-a-pop-at-Frank-Rijkaard-and-defended-his-own-record-a
s-Blackburn-manager-article611861.html#ixzz13DzvtfRf]http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news....DzvtfRf[/url]
Sign up for MirrorFootball's Morning Spy newsletter Register here

by **NANNY RED** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:13 am

“Rijkaard has just been sacked from Galatasaray - he must be a great manager to have been sacked by Galatasaray! What you are talking about is Frank Rijkaard’s agent putting his name around. It is all speculation.”

Behave yourself Roy ,just behave yourself

by **roberto green** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:14 am

NANNY RED wrote:“Rijkaard has just been sacked from Galatasaray - he must be a great manager to have been sacked by Galatasaray! What you are talking about is Frank Rijkaard’s agent putting his name around. It is all speculation.”

Behave yourself Roy ,just behave yourself

He has certainly done a lot more in his managerial career than Woy

by **Zidane** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:17 am

Roy has to go I hope the owners don't listen to the cr@p he's saying trying to keep his job, he simply isn't good enough no matter how he tries to spin it. His record more than proves this.

Liverpool FC Forum

ROY HODGSON - Official Thread

Who is online