Sometimes when the rain must be wet, it can also be dry.
dismissing Rafa Benitez as a mad ranter simply because he may use the odd Spanish colloquialism to make his point says more about our insularity than it does about his state of mind.
Hodgson offered an olive branch to Benitez, who has continued to criticise elements at the club despite leaving for Inter Milan in the summer.
"I totally agree with him that every manager needs to work with his own club," said the Liverpool boss.
"If I have upset him by saying something which I certainly didn’t mean to be in any way critical or negative about his work at the club, then I would happily apologise because there was never any intention to do that.
"As far as I am concerned I work at Liverpool and do my best for Liverpool, and he will work at Inter and do his best for Inter.
"I have no comments to make about other people’s opinions - I’ll allow them to make them and in this case I’ll accept them if that’s what they want to be."