With all due respect to Kenny, that's what happens when you bring in a manager who has been out of the game for so long
Before I continue, there's an appropriate smiley required for the above rubbish
What actually happens is three games at Wembley, a cup semi win over the neighbours, a League Cup, and a way back into Europe.
Now we continue.
I just don't get how fans can still defend Rodgers. Okay, he was our manager when we came second and close to winning the league but lets not pretend that didn't have a lot to do with Suarez literally ripping teams to shreds week in, week out. He was dragging us to the league title, only for us to falter at the final hurdle again.
Lets just remind you that rather than "falter at the final hurdle again", we brought the title race to the final day of that season, closer than any Liverpool coach has done since Kenny. That's not defending Rodgers, that is fact. Given that this sport is a team sport, that title challenge was a massive team effort, where everyone from Skrtel to Suarez chipped in. I don't think that's going to happen by the time we go to face Pulis and co again come May.
I am unbelievably pissed off because the spine of a strong team has been completely dismantled and replaced with B grade fodder and so many of our fans are lapping it up like its wonderful.
So many of our fans need to bloody wake up its unbelievable. The world of delusion they are living in knows no bounds. Time for a whiskey me thinks.
The B Grade fodder isn't hurting Leicester, or Watford, or Palace too much. It shouldn't hurt us too much either. The reason it hurts is because the team has no leaders in it. When the tough gets going, there's no fight, there's no battle, there's no leadership, they crawl into their shell. Hendo is the weakest captain of this club I've ever seen, allowing a lazy wimp like Balotelli to bully him over taking penalties. And as for the rest of them, Klopp tried the nice cop act, it didn't work, then he tried the hairdryer act, that didn't work. Then he had a one-to-one with Benteke and told him to get the finger out. That didn't work either. If he can't get through to them, then who can?
Onto today, and it was a game that I was always worried about. To start, it was played barely two and a half days after the long trip down from Sunderland. Then it was at a ground where we're inconsistent at best, and against a home side who had two more days for preparation, and no travel. Last year, we were two down in 5 minutes and collapsed. So the last thing we needed was conceding another early goal. We lasted 9 minutes this time. After that, it was a huff and puff job with very little end product. Can hit the bar, Lucas had a header off the line, and three penalty appeals were turned down. You kind of get them though when you're 4-0 up and don't need them.
Onto Benteke. When he's good, he's very good. When he's not, he's Heskey standard. He'll never be a Balotelli, it's very difficult to be a Balotelli, a lazy, divisive nutjob that no coach or club in England or anywhere else wants to deal with. His league contribution to this club was the sum total of 1 Goal, ONE. Benteke has his faults, but has already scored several multiples of that total in half a season. The comparison between them ends at that point. Anyone who reckons Balotelli is better is delusional.
So it's goodbye and good riddance to Upton Park, a significant hurdle down the years, as they take their bubbles to a sanitised ground. And so you'll never guess who the last Red in charge to win there was, wait for it...
....Brendan Rodgers.