Nothing better than an old '70's TV Theme to herald the the return of Roy Hodgson to Anfield this weekend with West Brom under his command. Now I predicted that he would be hired by Liverpool last summer and that he would do very very well. How wrong I was, or was I?
Hodgson was a manager used to scrappy teams with little or no budgets and a David of David and Goliath attitude. Here he was getting one fo the largest coach
Ing prizes of the world. Unfortunately the team was in shambles, several players wanted out, and the owners had no money and couldn't organize a piss up in a brewery. The players, although professionals, are human, and were part of this pressure and uncertainty and it showed in their play. Hodgson, by experience, was familiar with teams that absorbed lots of pressure and played on the counter attack, or for the tie (anyone say Fulham, Inter, etc ). Now Liverpool couLd and has played this style in the past as required in Champion's league games or FA Cup matches , but that wasn't the team last summer, no it was far far from it.
No Roy Hodgson received a team in psychic decline. A team that no longer believed in it's abilities and had no confidence in the leadership of the owners and consequently the manager.
So what happens this weekend? Liverpool are in for along tough afternoon
. Hodgson will have a team fighting to stay up and that plays a style more suited to
his tastes, and that chose him because they needed him, not because they were desperate but because they knew he was suited for this job, more so than he was for the Liverpool job.
So Reds you got rid of Roy at Anfield, but he is very very capable of stinging you upon his return.
Welcome back welcome back welcome back.....
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