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Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers was caught up in a frightening broad daylight bust-up when a screaming youth tried to smash up the door of a female pal’s house.
The man, armed with a cricket bat, pulled up in a car outside honking the horn and hurling abuse.
When the stunned Premier League manager told him to leave, the man shouted for him to come out into the street.
He then ran back to his car and pulled out the cricket bat which he used to batter the front door before racing off in his car.
Shocked neighbours who witnessed the incident on the up-market street called police.
But by the time three squad cars arrived the man had fled.
Today Rodgers will try to guide Liverpool to victory against Norwich City and a big step closer to their first league title for 24 years.
Yesterday a source said: "Thankfully Brendan has put this behind him and focused on football."
A neighbour told how the Liverpool boss arrived at the house in Southport at around 3.15pm on Monday and parked nearby.
The drama unfolded about an hour later when a man pulled up outside the home of Rodgers' friend Charlotte Hind, 31, who used to be a travel coordinator for the club.
They became close after he split from his wife Susan.
Witnesses claimed Rodgers appeared at an upstairs window and asked the man to go away, at which point the man, in his early 20s, went back to his car and returned with the cricket bat.
One neighbour said: "He pulled up outside and he was blowing on the horn.
"Then he got out, went to the boot and got a cricket bat out, it looked new, I think it still had the labels on.
"Brendan appeared at the window upstairs and he was telling him to go away.
"He was just pointing down and telling him to go.
"But he was shouting ‘Get f***ing well down here’.
"He was getting no response so he smashed the door and gave it a couple of whacks.
"Then he went to the back door.
"I think he damaged it, but then he came back round, shouting."
The young man left and around 10 minutes later a number of police cars arrived and officers spoke with neighbours.
One said Rodgers, 41, left at around 7pm, a couple of hours after the incident.
The Liverpool boss quit his family home and moved into a £1.2million flat in February, after which he grew close to mum-of-one Ms Hind.
Rodgers, who has been praised for guiding his team to the top of the league, has reportedly transformed his appearance in recent months, losing weight and spending *thousands of pounds having his teeth whitened.
Ms Hind is divorcing her husband of five years Steven.
Dad-of-two Rodgers has denied having a relationship with Ms Hind.
The front door of her property had visible signs of damage yesterday.
The neighbour said: "Brendan came yesterday and he waved to us, him and her, in the car."
Rodgers' wife Susan has not commented on the split. She had shared a rented mansion with him in Formby, Merseyside, after he left previous club Swansea City to take over at Anfield. Rodgers, who also managed Watford and Reading, regularly praised his wife for supporting him throughout his career.
He said in a 2012 interview: "My wife Susan is a brilliant, understanding, and wonderful lady. I met her when I was very young at Reading and we've been together ever since.
"She's very supportive, she knows it's my passion."
A spokesman for Merseyside Police told the Sunday Mirror: "We can confirm a patrol attended a property in Birkdale on Monday, 14 April following a report of a disturbance.
"Officers were called at approximately 5.30pm to a report of a man with cricket bat damaging the front door of a property. Officers attended but the man had left the scene.
"People in the property were spoken to about the incident and they did not wish to make a complaint."
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Simmer down Fred the Weather Man lad. I'll sleep proper boss tonight like Davey Moyes from that little geography lesson you've given me there!Originally posted by Redspin View PostThey say our days are numbered were not famous anymore but Scousers rule the country like we've always done before!Comment
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He's wrong though!
Nope. Since the Good Friday agreement the people of NI have the option of identifying as Irish, British, or both nationalities as well as being Irish, British or dual citizens.Originally posted by Redspin View PostLike blood on ironComment
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Who cares what nationality he is... He's ****ing awesome!Comment
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He is. And he's IrishOriginally posted by danperkins View Post
Jellyfish are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more usefulComment
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What a hero! :faints:Oh I don't know.Comment
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Originally posted by Red_Polo View Post
We were always able to declare ourselves officially Irish, even before the Good Friday Agreement.. Anyone born in NI can officially get an Irish passport..Always could.
DALGLISH !! :respect
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Appreciate thatOriginally posted by Molby View Post
You'll correct me if I'm wrong no doubt, but it's a much muddier history than that isn't it? That right was there as part of jus soli, so the offering of passports to folk born in NI post-dissolution was effectively the Irish government sticking a thumb in the eye of the UK and it's claim to the land. Hence one side or other might come out with an "I'll tell you your damn identity" type spiel - the kind we heard from the headmasterly Redspin earlier. The Good Friday agreement resolved* those tensions between the status of NI as a land and a people, leaving these identity warriors nowhere to go.
Anyway, interesting tangent we had here
Actually if it didn't descend into something hellish, would be nice to hear about this sort of stuff from our Irish contingent from time to time. Thankfully there's not as much cause for that sort of discussion as there used to be. 
If I was BR I'd think I'd be steering well clear of any politics
*Well, kinda. Obv!Like blood on ironComment
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Brendan O'RodgersOriginally posted by danperkins View Post
Jellyfish are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more usefulComment
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Cheers buddyOriginally posted by Red_Polo View PostAppreciate that
You'll correct me if I'm wrong no doubt, but it's a much muddier history than that isn't it? That right was there as part of jus soli, so the offering of passports to folk born in NI post-dissolution was effectively the Irish government sticking a thumb in the eye of the UK and it's claim to the land. Hence one side or other might come out with an "I'll tell you your damn identity" type spiel - the kind we heard from the headmasterly Redspin earlier. The Good Friday agreement resolved* those tensions between the status of NI as a land and a people, leaving these identity warriors nowhere to go.
Anyway, interesting tangent we had here Actually if it didn't descend into something hellish, would be nice to hear about this sort of stuff from our Irish contingent from time to time. Thankfully there's not as much cause for that sort of discussion as there used to be.
If I was BR I'd think I'd be steering well clear of any politics
*Well, kinda. Obv!
You'll find that 5 % of the numb skulls over here, get 95 % of the publicity..
The majority of right minded people over here couldn't give a **** about all that rubbish.. If my neighbour considers himself Irish or British, then that's his /her perogative.
Live and let live...respect all opinions.. (Unless they support the Mancs obviously !) :-) DALGLISH !! :respect
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Incorrect. Great Britain is the largest island in the British isles. British is any citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.Originally posted by Che Scouse Guevara View PostComment
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