Rodgers to LCFC

[rurikbird]

I really, REALLY hated Kolo Toure as a Liverpool player.

How can anyone (with a beating human heart) hate Kolo?

 

[doctor_mac]

It's synonymous all over the world that he looks up to himself.

I literally spat something out there. Luckily, I wasn't at a function or something.

 

[rurikbird]

Hahahahaha!

 

[mark1975]

Glen Johnson, the same bellend who actually did often let us down with his David James like lapses in concentration. Overrated cunt.

 

[gkmacca]

To be fair to Johnson, he wasn't really slagging Rodgers off in that interview, although they were clearly trying to encourage him to do so. He was quite interesting, actually, because he noted how he alone had worked with Rodgers back in his Chelsea days. He said back then Rodgers was a really excellent character, really natural and likeable, but someone who studied Mourinho obsessively and absorbed everything he did like a sponge. So when he came to Liverpool, Johnson said he'd be quite startled when Rodgers would copy whole chunks of sessions Mourinho did while saying exactly the same things as Mourinho did. Johnson didn't sneer about it, he just said it was quite disorientating for him, having known him before, to see him now almost morph into a different and much more self-conscious character.

 

[manwithnoname]

To be fair to Johnson, he wasn't really slagging Rodgers off in that interview, although they were clearly trying to encourage him to do so. He was quite interesting, actually, because he noted how he alone had worked with Rodgers back in his Chelsea days. He said back then Rodgers was a really excellent character, but someone who studied Mourinho obsessively and absorbed everything he did like a sponge. So when he came to Liverpool, Johnson said he'd be quite startled when Rodgers would copy whole chunks of sessions Mourinho did while saying exactly the same things as Mourinho did. Johnson didn't sneer about it, he just said it was quite disorientating for him, having known him before, to see him now almost morph into a different and much more self-conscious character.

And that three envelopes mind-game was copied from Slur Alex, who did it about 20 years earlier and again about a decade later

It's great to crib and take inspiration from successful managers, why wouldn't you?, but you've got to draw the line somewhere and that was really poorly thought through, especially considering Ferguson did it from a position of real power and very recent success.

 

[Whaddapie]

How can anyone (with a beating human heart) hate Kolo?

As a bloke, you can't.

As a starting center-back for us - whom I still hold personally responsible for our failure to win the league that season, due to his utterly inexplicable passing of the ball straight to the WBA striker when under absolutely zero pressure at the Hawthornes - you certainly can. And I do.

 

[manwithnoname]

As a bloke, you can't.

As a starting center-back for us - whom I still hold personally responsible for our failure to win the league that season, due to his utterly inexplicable passing of the ball straight to the WBA striker when under absolutely zero pressure at the Hawthornes - you certainly can. And I do.

I want to like this post 100 times

 

[Farkmaster]

Wasn't the three envelopes, I-know-who-is-going-to-betray-me thing, actually invented by jesus, or whoever wrote his fanfic?

And there is absolutely NO other response I'd respect to hearing that shtick, than "is this guy fucking serious."

 

[Dreambeliever]

1 game in and a defeat.

Vardy's record is insane. Four managers in a row he's got he first goal for.

 

[gkmacca]

 

[manwithnoname]

1 game in and a defeat.

Vardy's record is insane. Four managers in a row he's got he first goal for.

Jesus fucking Christ

 

[Judge Jules]

Kenneth Williams really did go downhill before he snuffed it, didn't he?