Thommo

[Craig_H]

Which is 100% fine but saying the squad Hodgson has to work with isn't good enough therefore by association saying it's alright to be bottom 3 at the minute becuase Rafa left a terrible squad is a lazy, hypocrical thing to say when A it is blatently untrue and B the squad Rafa left behind is a million miles better than the one Thompson and Houllier left behind.

That's before we get into Houllier and Thompson letting Owen run his contract down so he could leave for practically **** all.
Compare that to Ferguson signing Rooney up, is he now decides to sell him he has a long contract and a big fat wage to justify the fee for him.

Image the fuss if Rafa had let Torres' contract run down................

Just because a pundit happens to be an ex red doesn't make his shockingly inaccurate bollocks acceptable (ex reds in general, not just Thompson)

I dont agree with the comments from Thompson, all i was saying was that it doesnt necessarily mean he's jumping on the bandwagon as such, he might just actually hold those views himself.

[Vermilion]

English/British pundits looking after an English manager is what's going on imo....and an old favourite in Roy at that.

[RedReet]

What exactly did he say then?

[Clapper]

What exactly did he say then?

I would like to know that also.

[Frenchie]

I would like to know that also.

me three

[Neil Young]

I think he's just trying to protect the incumbent, to be loyal to the club, etc.

I think he's wrong and his arguments add up to nothing but he's not the most rational of men when it comes to LFC club and I don't think he deserves too much criticism from any of us for that.

[BillobShaisley]

........Hodgson inherited a much stronger squad than Rafa inherited from Houllier and and and Houlliers assistant who's name is on the tip of my tongue............ wait, it'll come to me in a minute............. no it's gone again.

Patrice Bergues? (SP?)

[The Birdman]

I think he's just trying to protect the incumbent, to be loyal to the club, etc.

I think he's wrong and his arguments add up to nothing but he's not the most rational of men when it comes to LFC club and I don't think he deserves too much criticism from any of us for that.

Not too much criticism is a fair comment but it's a depressing day when even Thommo starts twisting events to suit rather than just speaking the truth

[Kenneth]

Which is 100% fine but saying the squad Hodgson has to work with isn't good enough therefore by association saying it's alright to be bottom 3 at the minute becuase Rafa left a terrible squad is a lazy, hypocrical thing to say when A it is blatently untrue and B the squad Rafa left behind is a million miles better than the one Thompson and Houllier left behind.

That's before we get into Houllier and Thompson letting Owen run his contract down so he could leave for practically **** all.
Compare that to Ferguson signing Rooney up, is he now decides to sell him he has a long contract and a big fat wage to justify the fee for him.

Image the fuss if Rafa had let Torres' contract run down................

Just because a pundit happens to be an ex red doesn't make his shockingly inaccurate bollocks acceptable (ex reds in general, not just Thompson)

Disagree completely. He said the squad isn't good enough, the bit about justifying a bottom 3 position is made up by you. And if you look player for player, the squad Roy inherited wasn't much stronger than the one Ged left.

Tommo being responsible for owen's contract running down, well, unless you know something we don't about his role in contract negotiations, it's bollocks.

It's a sad state of affairs when the name of a Liverpool great with a unquestionable love for the club is sullied because of a vague association with being in anyway critical of Rafa Benitez.

"Not that Rafa is beyond criticism" - yeah, right.

[golfball]

True dat

[BillobShaisley]

Leaving the european cup in the back of his capri afte ra night on the fizz with the fans in Liverpool will always be the defining moment of the guy as a true red. But he does talk some **** and like many ex-reds over does the 'impartiality' by being overly critical when being a pundit.

[Vermilion]

Leaving the european cup in the back of his capri afte ra night on the fizz with the fans in Liverpool will always be the defining moment of the guy as a true red. But he does talk some **** and like many ex-reds over does the 'impartiality' by being overly critical when being a pundit.

[Mostar]

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2010/10/28/phil-thompson-liverpool-fc-can-start-making-sweet-music-again-100252-27556736/#sitelife-commentsWidget-bottom

Phil Thompson: Liverpool FC can start making sweet music again

LIVERPOOL are blessed to have the most emotional, inspiring anthem there is in modern football and we saw the powers of it again last weekend.

Whether it was a plan to show our new American owners what Anfield can be like or whether it was to pull everyone together, we’ll never know but the idea to have Gerry Marsden singing before hand was absolutely inspired.

Given the opposition we faced, I’ve never heard ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ sung with such gusto – if you excuse the pun, it hit the right notes.

Happily, it proved inspirational because few would argue that Liverpool’s performance against Blackburn was the best of the season so far.

It would be easy to say that Blackburn were poor but the intensity with which Liverpool started put them on the back foot; there was more urgency, better movement and we looked so much better from front to back.

One slick passage of play summed that up – Fernando Torres played Maxi Rodriguez in, his cut back was met by Joe Cole and then Raul Meireles was on hand to try and turn in the follow up.

During the opening weeks of the campaign, we haven’t had enough players getting into the box but maybe this is a sign of things to come as so many players looked like they are close to recapturing their form.

Lucas, in particular, deserved a special mention; he hasn’t always been a crowd favourite but he was outstanding against Blackburn and dominated the game.

Inevitably, Melwood will have had a much better feel to it in the last few days and I can remember a similar experience when I was at the club with Gerard Houllier and we found results desperately hard to come by.

The vultures had been circling but we ended an 11-game sequence without a win by beating Southampton 1-0 in January 2003 and in the training sessions that followed, you could see the buzz around the place once again.

I’m sure it is the same now – a weight had been lifted from everyone’s shoulders and all we can hope is that they can maintain the standards they set on Sunday.