I bet when Jordan was running the show last year being one of our key players on the way to PL trophy (almost), you were saying f**k all about Jordan and rather bollocking some other scapegoat.
Not at all. I gave him credit where it was due. I give the players who improve credit when they earn it; for example, I have gone on and on about Lucas for quite some time now, and yet he has made me eat my words with his performances lately. He's been brilliant.
So, Henderson had a very, very good back half of last season. Actually it started with the 5-0 away at Spurs last December, one of my favourite matches of last season. Stevie was out that day and Henderson just took over the game, bossed it from beginning to end.
But this season he's been poor. Are we not allowed to say that? He's been very poor. And he's been poor most of his Liverpool career. That's from 2011 up until now. So essentially the first TWO ENTIRE SEASONS he was awful, then in December of 2013 he suddenly perked up, and now has regressed. That means that almost 80% of his career for us he's been poor.
I look at the big picture. You prefer to focus on the short-term. We don't know what is going to happen with Henderson; whether the real player was the one on the back-end of last season, or the one who was rubbish for the other 80% of his career with us so far. Only time will tell.
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