Hodgson: Johnson has not performed

[Colonol]

A manager has no right to come out in public and talk about a player like that. Whether he has underperformed is not an issue that needs to be discussed in public. It does no favours for a player in this day and age. How does destroying a players confidence aid the team or the player. How would he like it if all the players came out and spoke their opinion about how inept a manager Woy is. Torres and out attacking players must be so frustrated that our style has even got more negative under this joker.

[Horus]

Piece of piss, this being interviewed lark.

 

Stoke v Liverpool: Roy Hodgson's future in doubt as Horus challenges him to reproduce his Scandanavian achievements

 

Roy Hodgson's Liverpool future has been cast into doubt after the Liverpool ways', Horus, criticised the journeyman manager for failing to produce the sort of football befitting Englands most successful club side.

 

Liverpool have played half decently, just once since the beginning of his disastrous reign. Horus confirmed on Friday that the 63 year-old had suffered a prolapse because he's old and has a baggy arse.

 

Even had Hodgson been anally tight, though, Horus' withering assessment of the former Neuchatel and Cloggers 11 managers form, suggests he faces a struggle not simply to regain his pride but to prolong his increasingly tedious 4 month stay on Merseyside.

 

 

“He is the England LMA Manager of the year and if he plays football not based on Wimbledon circa the eighties, one would expect him to have a chance of keeping his job,” Horus said.

 

 

 

“But then he would have had to implement a progressive brand of passing and movement football like the clubs fans are desperate to see and up to now, to be quite frank, he has not managed — or very often at least — to the level I would expect of him."

 

“You would have to ask him the question: ‘Do you think Liverpool are playing at top form and are you encouraging the most defensive team in the league to retreat to our 18 yard box and hoof the ball as far as we can? If he says yes, obviously we will have to agree to differ. And if he says no, then you have to ask the question why not.”

 

 

 

The prospect of Hodgson losing his job is likely to alert Wimbledon and Watford, both of whom have a history of playing Hodgsons prefered style, and both of whom, have been monitoring the managers situation at Anfield, with a move as early as December a possibility.

 

 

 

The manager would be eligible to turn up in the lower leagues with a team of cloggers.

 

 

Hodgsons' travails could also lead to an extended run in the side for former MD, Christian Purslow, whose only explanation for employing him in the first place can be to help him fulfill his real ambition in life.

 

 

Though Hodgson may employ Jamie Carragher as hoofer-in-chief at the Britannia Stadium, the Liverpool manager has been effusive in his praise of anyone able to sit deep and launch the ball in to orbit on a regular basis. He said the players had surprised him when they first started hoofing it, as it was ending up too close to team mates, but they've been working hard on that in training and hope to provide complete lost causes for Torres to chase for the rest of the season.

 

 

 

“It was a really tough match to throw him in because they are better at hoofing than us, and they also have the kind of physicality that we don't, so at their best, I think they can kick it farther away."