Pack your bags Roy

[Shaggy]

Can't remember that? Remind me

[Kronenburg1892]

Can't remember that? Remind me

His number was up, and he started walking off the pitch (he'd been crap most of the season, except against United, and was playing crap in this game), and he started rolling his eyes, as if "what's the ****ing point" "your turn". He didn't give a ****.

His career kind of dived afterwards when he went to Charlton then Spurs. It seemed he had an epithony when he went to Fulhum, or he realised, that your career is what you make it.

[The Birdman]

What a prick Murphy is, didn't he play regularly under Houllier who is French?? Didn't hear or read him asking for an English manager then.
And it's also blatantly obvious that the "calls from Liverpool" were from Carragher and Gerrard or at the outside the calls were from Purslow after consulting those 2.

Who else called him? Hicks? Gillette? Broughton?? No ****ing chance

[Kronenburg1892]

What a prick Murphy is, didn't he play regularly under Houllier who is French?? Didn't hear or read him asking for an English manager then.
And it's also blatantly obvious that the "calls from Liverpool" were from Carragher and Gerrard or at the outside the calls were from Purslow after consulting those 2.

Who else called him? Hicks? Gillette? Broughton?? No ****ing chance

Hey, DM was a solid player. Not one of the greats, but he certainly had his moments. It just went to his head when Houlier went all Hitler.

[Vermilion]

ffs, i had'nt read the article, i just assumed from comments it was the same old ****e, things like Bodger is great, Bodger will get it right!

But! **** me! if he is'nt claiming some credit for lumbering LFC with the Bodge in the first place, and for that alone..i will never forgive him..he's dead to me! Danny WHO! ?


edit: free kicks; Utd? Nope...don't remember!

[Arn]

What a prick Murphy is, didn't he play regularly under Houllier who is French?? Didn't hear or read him asking for an English manager then.
And it's also blatantly obvious that the "calls from Liverpool" were from Carragher and Gerrard or at the outside the calls were from Purslow after consulting those 2.

Who else called him? Hicks? Gillette? Broughton?? No ****ing chance

Maybe some people think the calls was from Santa Claus, who knows?

[Glenn Hysen]

Maybe some people think the calls was from Santa Claus, who knows?

No.

[Vermilion]

I did.

edit: Although it was based on some 'duff' info from one of his 'little helpers' via twitter.

[Redspin]

His number was up, and he started walking off the pitch (he'd been crap most of the season, except against United, and was playing crap in this game), and he started rolling his eyes, as if "what's the ****ing point" "your turn". He didn't give a ****.

His career kind of dived afterwards when he went to Charlton then Spurs. It seemed he had an epithony when he went to Fulhum, or he realised, that your career is what you make it.

That would be "epiphany" I believe. But epithony is certainly a nice word and I promise to use it if it ever makes the dictionary

[Shaggy]

Barrett in The Times

Hodgson puts aside sentiment for meeting with old allies

Tony Barrett
Last updated December 18 2010 12:01AM

“Maybe it’s time Liverpool had an English manager who knows about the club.” Danny Murphy, July 1.

“If I was a betting man I would have big money on Roy leading them into the top four next season – without a shadow of a doubt,” Danny Murphy, July 3 2010.

“Give Roy a bit of time and by Christmas see where we are and everyone will be happier.” Danny Murphy, October 11, 2010.

In ten days time, Danny Murphy’s now infamous outspoken comments suggesting Tony Pulis was guilty of sending his players out for action “too pumped up” could come back to haunt him when Fulham meet Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium.

All the more reason, then, for Murphy to make the most of his expected love-in with the one Premier League manager whose affection he can still count on when he is reunited with Roy Hodgson this evening.

When the PR offensive which followed Hodgson’s departure from Fulham to Liverpool was at its height in the summer, Murphy was his former manager’s biggest cheerleader. Nothing, it seemed, would be beyond Hodgson after he took over from Rafael Benitez.

From understanding the unique mentality of the club and its fans, restoring “class and dignity”, to re-establishing Liverpool in the top four, Hodgson had it sussed, according to the man he made Fulham captain.

Even when Hodgson’s reign threatened to go off the rails following defeats to Blackpool and Northampton Town, Murphy still had his back, insisting that Liverpool would be in a much healthier position come Christmas. December 25 is now just a week away and if anything Hodgson’s standing amongst the Liverpool supporters is at an even lower ebb, the 63-year-old having hitherto presided over a team that has lost more league games than it has won, including just one victory away from home, and which has a negative goal difference with the halfway point in the season fast approaching.

All of which goes to show that Murphy is a better footballer than he is a soothsayer, or else that the midfield player, like so many in football in this country who were understandably desperate to see an English manager take control of a top English club, allowed his judgement to be clouded by emotion last summer.

With the pressure on Hodgson now at the stage where many believe it is a case of if not when he is relieved of his managerial duties at Anfield, so the feeling grows that while his managerial pedigree and standing within the game are beyond repute, maybe Liverpool was the wrong club at the wrong time for him.

John W. Henry has added fuel to that particular fire by describing Hodgson’s tenure thus far as “unacceptable”. For the new Liverpool owner, statistics provide the most reliable evidence from which to form an opinion and, if his proclivity for data is anything to go by, the American will not be surprised to discover that the form of the manager he inherited is in the book.

Hodgson won just one away game with Fulham last season, a record which is mirrored with Liverpool this. In his time at Craven Cottage, he had a win ratio of 39 per cent, a figure he is down on slightly since moving to Anfield.

Hodgson has not become a worse manager inside the last five months, he is simply being judged by higher standards, something he readily accepts has been difficult to come to terms with, particularly in relation to the intense scrutiny he has come under from supporters and reporters alike, even if he maintains that the two spells he enjoyed at Inter Milan in the 1990s gave him a grounding in what to expect from life in charge of one of Europe’s most prestigious clubs.

“I am used to it,” Hodgson said. “I suppose I lost a bit of the weathering. I had two-and-a-half years at Inter and I remember once losing a friendly to Barcelona to a goal which should have been disallowed. That was a disaster. I should have been aware [of what it was like here].

“It has been a hardening and weathering process that I have had to come to terms with. But it is something, again, that should be seen as a positive rather than a negative. It is going to be that type of attitude and desire from everybody at the club which will lift us in to a better position.”

If Liverpool and their under pressure manager are to live up to the lofty expectations that they were bestowed with at the start of the season then their form will need to improve markedly. Another damning statistic reveals that Blackpool, with 78 per cent, currently have a superior pass completion rate than Liverpool who are on 77.9 per cent. The difference in performance may only be a seemingly insignificant 0.1 per cent but for a club which prides itself on setting standards for others to follow, falling behind Blackpool in any measurement is only ever going to increase the scrutiny on the man in charge.

Hodgson is also aware that if supporters’ polls are accurate, few at Anfield this evening will believe that he has a long-term future as manager. It may not only be at Stoke that Murphy discovers that his public pronouncements about a leading manager are out of step with the prevailing view of the locals.

[Neil Young]

“Maybe it’s time Liverpool had an English manager who knows about the club.” Danny Murphy, July 1.

FFS, did he say that?

Dear me, what appalling judgement he has.

[Exiled_red]

Well if we're to judge Hodgson at Christmas, it looks like we'll be where we are now in 9th given the postponments, the Blackburn - West Ham game is still on, a Blackburn win could see them jump above us so we could be in 10th.

Is anyone happier now? I'm not! Hodgson has to go, it's as simple as that. Pack your bags Roy it's time to go!

[Shaggy]

Not my work ...although I may follow suit this afternoon

[Craig_H]

I'm using that as my FB picture

[Shaggy]