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The fact that he is in fact a "frustration venting fan" in real life is not in any way at odds with his being an objective journalist. It's very difficult to take issue with any of it. And why is it a good thing that Carragher and Gerrard are "spared" in the article? Fanning writes from the heart and gets to the nub of the matter very incisively and eloquently and articulates the views of at least 90% of Liverpool fans and for that he should be applauded

I disagree completely. Kuyt's one of those players who can be relied on to play well irrespective of how the team's playing. He's one of our most important players

It looked pretty fragile when he just watched as Modric waltzed past him to cross for their first goal. We're well covered at CB with Kyrgiakos, Kelly and Wilson, who are all faster than him and better in the air than him so he's not a great loss

He's also the ref that sent off Cole against Arsenal while letting two shocking, worse, tackles from Rosicky and Wilshere - the latter a real potential leg-breaker - escape with just yellow cards. There wasn't a single bad foul yesterday yet he booked five of our players. He gave a free-kick for a nothing challenge, which led directly to the penalty and booked Meireles although he won the ball fair and square and yet failed to book Hutton for a laughable dive in our penalty area. Atkinson is a f***ing disgrace

Lucas Meireles Rodriguez

As you seem to be unaware of it, I'll explain the timeline for you. He was at Liverpool first, then Blackburn, then Newcastle, then Celtic. So, you see, after he won the league at Blackburn with players bought at great expense with Jack Walker's millions, he had an undistinguished career at Newcastle and also Celtic where he was caretaker manager for a time. But maybe you think that his post-Blackburn record doesn't reflect his managerial abilities and he would revert to his successful times at Anfield if he got the manager's job again. But I don't see why he would automatically be as successful and would be any less likely to buy Carter/Speedie kind of players as he did late in his previous tenure. He also left us with an ageing squad with the first team averaging 30 years old Like I said, he didn't do a lot after having Walker's millions at Blackburn and it's only blind faith that would assume he'd be a success at Liverpool again

He didn't cut it very much as a manager without Jack Walker's millions to fall back on, so why would he cut it now at Anfield? As I said, I'd like to remember him as the great player he was and chanting against Hodgson explicitly, rather than implicitly, makes far more sense to me Precisely my point, but put far more pithily

......or Carlton f***ing Cole

For starters I'm 100% sure that a new manager will immediately abandon 4-4-2 with a brief to sit deep at all costs and hoof the ball into low earth orbit in the general direction of Torres. That should see us score more than average of one a game we're scoring under Hodgson. That'll do for starters

That's quite brilliant. It's a definite winner. I shall be watching LFC TV in anticipation, but I'm sure he'd never get on ahead of good old unquestioning Eddie From Woolton

Me too. No doubt they were inundated with "Hodgson Out" callers and were desperately trying to find a nice middle-of-the-road caller. Lo and behold they finally sorted the phones out and a regular caller - Eddie From Woolton I think it was, who's always calling in - came on and didn't do a hatchet job on the manager. They had another phone-in last night hosted by young Clare with David Fairclough and another talking head in the studio. The first caller actually said we should go easy on Hodgson and called the players to account. So at least LFC TV has got it's call-vetting sorted and only non-controversial callers will get on

Personally I don't want Dalglish as manager - other than as a caretaker perhaps with no possibility of doing it full time - so chanting his name wouldn't get my support, nor that of many other fans either. Let's keep our great memories of him from the old days rather than risk sullying them if he didn't cut it any more as a manager Surely the point is to be anti-Hodgson and I believe any explicitly anti-Hodgson feeling would make far more sense

Strong wasn't always a right-half, although he did come to the club in that position and was also successful there, playing in that role in place of the injured Gordon Milne in the 1965 Cup Final for example. He played everywhere else for us apart from goalkeeper, so was not always a right-half. Callaghan not only started as a winger but played there for years and years with success and distinction. In fact he played as a winger for fully a whole decade before playing in a more central midfield role, so neither he nor Strong can be considered as players who weren't successful in their original roles.

Ian Callaghan was brought in as outside-right and did very much make the position his own, playing there for many years - I watched him playing there for season after season. He got into the England World Cup winning squad in 1966 as a right-winger. It was only when he started to lose the pace needed to play as a winger that he was moved deeper into midfield with great success, so he is a bad example for you to choose. Ditto Geoff Strong who was a great success in all his positions from full-back to centre-back through midfield to striker. He was superb in all positions, so he wasn't a failure in any one position before finding success in one other. He was probably the first player to be described as a "utilty" player because he looked completely at home in any position. Indeed Bill Shankly said "if Bobby Moore's a better centre-half than Geoff Strong I'll eat the grandstand". But he was extremely accomplished wherever he played and could look like an international full-back one week and a top striker the next. What a bargain for £45K - probably the most under-rated Liverpool player of the last 45 years

I think he ended that season even more disastrously - after apparently outspending everyone in the transfer market except Man U. That's some achievement and no doubt shows the benefit of his decades of experience at the very pinnacle of the game

Kelly Gerrard Torres

What Rafa did or didn't do last season has f*** all to do with Hodgson's slavish devotion to defending at all costs and abandoning attack, other than as an occasional foray over the half-way line. That's why we've still got a negative goal difference after 12 matches - an absolute disgrace. Our formation, tactics and team selection this season are all down to Hodgson. Last year we were disappointed to finish seventh. Under Hodgson it looks like some far off promised land, tantalisingly out of reach. We may not have been champions last season but now we look well and truly mid-table dross and that's all down to our incompetent manager

It's quite irrelevant who we have in the middle of the outmoded 4-4-2 when the sole purpose of the central midfielders is to form part of a barrier 35 yards from our own goal with little intent on attacking. That's what you get for having a manager who's spent 35 years fine tuning 1970s tactics and formations, oblivious to any developments in those areas. It's Hodgson Hoofball writ large. Wait until the weekend when we'll have the same two banks of four sitting deep and trying to repel mighty Stoke. I seriously doubt we'll get anything out of the game after last night's masterclass in Hodgson Hoofball, but at least it will surely hasten the old fraud's departure Wake me up when he's f***ed off and we have a manager in charge again

If Wigan "take the game to the opposition" they're extremely bad at it. Before last night they'd only scored 5 goals. They had no option but to take the game to us as Quentin Crisp had our team sitting within 35 yards of our goal all second half hoping against hope we'd grimly hang on to our one-goal lead. Same thing happened against Chelsea when he had us surrendering two-thirds of the pitch after half-time to hang on to what we had It might have been a point better than last season's fixture but last night was one of the worst performances I've ever seen from a Liverpool team. Last season was just a pretty poor performance, but light years ahead of last nights pathetic defensive, mind-numbingly negative, Hodgson-inspired, Fulhamesque utter shambles

They've been poor away all season and were there for the taking. They didn't press us back; we just parked the bus Fulham-style and sat back, conceding territory willingly. It's Hodgson's classic way of defending a lead

1 Lucas 2 Torres 3 Kuyt

That's because his default setting is to launch the ball into a low earth orbit You must be joking. The scuffler that is Fletcher makes Lucas look like Pele

Only the knee-jerk merchants who crave a scapegoat "wanted rid". I've always thought he was an excellent player who got way too much criticism, the sort of criticism more established players seem immune from, no matter how poorly they play. I rate him very highly and am glad that he's now getting the praise he deserves. He was the best player on the pitch again on Sunday and has outperformed Steven Gerrard all season as he did right throughout last season

............make that the worst football at the club for 50 years. I can vouch for it

I visit Asia a lot and they're an everyday dirt cheap fruit out there, unlike the nearly a couple of quid a time they cost in UK. Apparently more mangoes are eaten around the world than any other fruit, which is quite a statistic