A few people who I respect immensely on this forum have disgraced themselves with their vitriol toward Hodgson. I think he's unfairly being seen as the owners man (where Rafa wasn't, they inherited him) rather than just as someone who's been offered a job to manage the best club in the world, seriously now who would turn that down? Some need to differentiate between the owners sacking Rafa and bringing in Hodgson and focus their anger accordingly on where it should be aimed at.
If Roy takes over, back him and let him get on with it. It's not his fault he did a great job at Fulham who had the third smallest combined wage and transfer budget in the league last season. We struggled in all competitions last season, but in the league especially, I think Rafa would’ve improved this had he been around – let’s face it, it would be very hard not to, despite the retroactive spin that this was our true position now – but I think Roy will improve this also. He’s not a mug, his CV proves that. And as I keep saying, what if he does a good job? The only comparative instance of him managing a big club is at Inter Milan, during the ill-fated Paul Ince era, seriously, look it up, he was up against Lippi’s Juventus and A.C.Milan.
Most of the top, big name manager's are employed, because they're good, sometimes, like Valencia did with Rafa, Barcelona did with Pep Guardiola and Frank Rijkaard (both who had achieved fuck all, in Pep's case never managed at all) and we did with Shankly in the late fifties, you bring someone in based on their accomplishments achieved at a different echelon in the game, or on their potential. Like it or not, Roy's earned the right to be in the frame to be the next Liverpool manager based on what he did at Fulham.
Any new Liverpool manager deserves our support until he proves he can’t do the job. If we don’t behave ourselves and start calling for a new manager's sacking after six months we’ll have become a whopperish support just like the toon army, and then we really will have lost something.
