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For those saying that Kenny deserves another year
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Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish's excuses cannot mask his side's failings following draw with Aston Villa
The end-of-season report filed by Kenny Dalglish will need to be bigger than War and Peace to chronicle Liverpool’s problems. It may yet be Dalglish’s best chance of surviving an internal investigation.
The end-of-season report filed by Kenny Dalglish will need to be bigger than War and Peace to chronicle Liverpool’s problems. It may yet be Dalglish’s best chance of surviving an internal investigation.
By Chris Bascombe, Anfield
11:00PM BST 08 Apr 2012
By continuing to swell the contents of the club review, it would take John Henry and Tom Werner all summer to read. By the time they have digested the conclusions, it may be too late to consider a change.
The Americans are flying in to watch Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final against Everton, and will meet Dalglish before the game at Wembley. He will need to be at his most charming, and for the owners to be at their most gullible, to earn sympathy for Liverpool’s league position following another grim draw at home, this time against Aston Villa.
A familiar post-match dissection was little more than a re-run of their season’s failings. Dalglish gave a hint of what his explanation will be for the awful sequence of results and, worryingly, appears to be inviting all those of an Anfield persuasion to consider the possibility of a grand conspiracy, or factors “beyond their jurisdiction”.
Dalglish said that he would not be surprised if others thought referees had an agenda against his side. He was referring to a rejected penalty appeal for Chris Herd’s handball and a contentious booking for Luis Suárez.
So off we toddle, left to contemplate whether Liverpool’s latest setback was a consequence of lack of quality or the duel effects of bad luck and incompetent officiating. It needs all of two seconds for a reasoned conclusion, unless you are a fully paid up member of the ‘flat earth’ society.
Officials, goalposts, fixture planners, the Football Association, Patrice Evra and the ‘anti-Liverpool’ media; all have been held responsible for the club’s difficulties this season.
Yet this performance, studded by cameos from certain players who would struggle to feature in a Championship team, shows that Liverpool’s toils are of their own making. Jordan Henderson and Jonjo Shelvey are the closest Liverpool have come to pairing Tweedledum and Tweedledee in central midfield. Their presence meant Steven Gerrard was shifted first to the position of a second striker and later a makeshift right midfielder. As usual, he came to the fore by ole should not be compromised for the sake of players who you imagine queuing to get the captain to sign their shirt after a game. Their inclusion is symptomatic of why Liverpool are where they are.
Senior figures in the side are not doing enough, either. Suárez has been poor since the new year, favouring individualism above the team ethic. José Enrique’s disintegration has been rapid, while Stewart Downing usually makes only one decent contribution in every match.
Daniel Agger’s fine display from left-back demonstrated how much he has been missed. His header against the bar allowed Suárez to nudge home the equaliser, setting up a late bombardment. Too late, though. Aston Villa, for their part, had one shot. These days, that is all you need to score at Anfield, although Herd’s effort was a sweet strike after Alexander Doni flapped at Steve Warnock’s cross.
The Premier League campaign cannot end soon enough for Liverpool.
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Spot on except the part about Luis.
It's bitter posts like the above that results in you not getting many likes
spot on? the article is full of shit.
for instance the article talks about gerrard being moved around to accomadate others as if gerrard has been excelling in the position of central midfield when imho he has been all over the fucking place there.
Yep, wasn't difficult to spot either.
I kinda like Bascombs articles.
If he meant that, then I agree.
The flat earth society - epic.
Yeah it's still spot on.
So the only reason you like the article is because it has abuse in it. No surprise.
Bascombe is calling it as he see's it. There are too many excuses and it doesn't add up.
Flat earth society is just funny.
30+ points behind one of the worst Utd teams in 20 odd years. I don't know if that's a reason for hope or despair.
Yes it is. They all are. No manager of any stature is going to come if he's told beforehand what plan he has to work to.
Bascombe just love wtiting stuff like this, and there is a very cuntish tone throughout the article.
That said, I wish Kenny would just say that we have underperformed massivly this year and that its not good enough at all. Someone should tell these players they can join other clubs if they dont start pulling their weight.
That said, I wish Kenny would just say that we have underperformed massivly this year and that its not good enough at all. Someone should tell these players they can join other clubs if they dont start pulling their weight.
the manager is already here.
...and you can bet he wasn't told how to do his job when he was appointed.
you don't know that. kenny was in the door two seconds when suarez and carroll were purchased.
If you think either would have been signed without his agreement at the very least, neil, I'll have lots of what you're smoking.
there is no question he would have utimately agreed to the deals but will YOU agree that the ball had to have been rolling before kenny walked through the door?
Something must have been in the works about Suarez, but I suspect Kenny himself had a lot to do with that even though he wasn't manager at the time.
As far as Carroll's concerned - no, I suspect that was done in a tearing hurry when Torres left us in the lurch.
As far as Carroll's concerned - no, I suspect that was done in a tearing hurry when Torres left us in the lurch.
we'll never know either way all I'm saying is I hope we have a gameplan with regards to signings rather than flinging shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.
I think Kenny had a plan, regarding the summer purchases. It just didn't work out.
The problem of calling it as he sees it is that he doesn't see the whole picture and what goes on behind the scenes (especially with the way in that LFC keeps everything behind closed doors). It's akin to saying light sabres are real because it's on tv.
It's pretty easy why the excuses don't add up, they're fabricated for the media.
Flat earth society is funny - I'll give you that.
That presumes he wasn't one already.
Well neither do we. We can only speculate and express our opinion on what has occured during the passed season and we're split into two groups with separate conclusions.
He's still a fan though.
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