Noticed on Sunday 2-0 down looking inept camera closes in on Roy who ........ scratches chin
We have played 5 games we are 10 points behind Chelsea, I think the expression is smell the coffee, the is no way on planet Earth we will win the league
I'm honestly still shocked at the game yesterday. Only word that can come to mind: disgrace. Team showed no heart throughout the match, Babel looked lazy up front , and, worst of all, Northampton Town controlled the match after they equalized in the second half.
I'll be fair, though: well-played, Northampton Town.
The club is in shambles from the board to the pitch,everybody looks pissed of.Last night no inspiration on the pitch,or on the bench.Roy has not got out of his seat once.
His team last night was a disaster.
One competition down 2 to go.
I thought I would post this press article here.
Either that or start a new thread.
Here is good.....but not really just the last game.
17 months actually is what this press article is all about and some key points in what we did or more importantly what we didnt do.
No.
This is not a Rafa bash.
This is pure fact as to key stages in the last year and a half, where we have gone from Heroes to Zeroes. Where we are now.
Its not a long period of time at all from second in the Premiership to now but it features 6 key games.
There are some valid points ending up with the Northampton game this week.
Long read.
http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b62f6The six horrendous results that have left Liverpool at rock bottom
From title challengers to League Cup laughing stock in 17 months...
23 Sep 2010 12:00:00
ANALYSIS
By Steven Saunders
Liverpool's sensational defeat on penalties to Northampton Town of League Two in the League Cup represented a new low for a club that has continually shocked and amazed with their results in recent times.
Back in April 2009, with a Premier League title just about within reach, a dramatic 4-4 draw with Arsenal at Anfield was seen as disastrous, Andrey Arshavin's quadruple sounding the death knell for Rafael Benitez's championship ambitions.
Fast forward only 17 months - with Benitez now gone, Roy Hodgson watched in horror as his side were given the runaround by a team 69 places lower in the English pyramid. It required a scrappy David Ngog goal deep in extra time to even take the League Cup third round tie to penalties, and even in front of the Kop it was Northampton who held their nerve in the shootout.
It was not the only match to leave Liverpool fans with their head in their hands since the beginning of last season.
Here are the six of the worst...
Liverpool 1-3 Aston Villa
Premier League, August 24, 2009
Some pundits had tipped Liverpool to win the Premier League before the season began, and while an opening game defeat to Tottenham at White Hart Lane was a setback, the ship appeared to have been righted when Stoke were beaten 4-0 at Anfield next time out.
But then came a Monday night clash with Villa. A Lucas Leiva own goal put the visitors in front and Curtis Davies added a second in first-half stoppage time from a poorly defended set piece.
Fernando Torres pulled a goal back with 18 minutes remaining, but soon after Steven Gerrard hauled down Nigel Reo-Coker in the box and Ashley Young converted the penalty.
It meant Liverpool had suffered as many League defeats in three games as they had done in the whole of the previous season.
Liverpool 1-2 Lyon
Champions League, October 20, 2009
In previous years, Benitez's calling card whenever things had gone poorly domestically was a sound record in Europe.
But even the Champions League offered no comfort as Liverpool's season went from bad to worse.
Having already lost to Fiorentina in Florence in a frightfully one-sided affair, victory was of the essence when Lyon came to Anfield.
Gerrard limped off injured midway through the first half, but Yossi Benayoun put the hosts ahead four minutes before half-time.
However, Lyon substitute Maxime Gonalons equalised on 72 minutes and Cesar Delgado scrambled home an injury time winner to inflict a fourth successive defeat on the Reds, their worst sequence since April 1987.
Another home defeat followed against Fiorentina, and Liverpool were knocked out of the Champions League group stages for the first time under Benitez.
Portsmouth 2-0 Liverpool
Premier League, December 19, 2009
If Liverpool thought they had it bad, a trip to Portsmouth should have offered some perspective.
Instead it just heaped on more misery, as Javier Mascherano was sent off and the side bottom of the league - (and playing without being paid) - dismantled them.
It was two superb goals that settled the game, the first from Nadir Belhadj with an exquisite volley that whistled past Pepe Reina at the near post, and the second from Frederic Piquionne was a classy low effort from a similar angle.
Mascherano's red card came with the game at 1-0, and Liverpool were outfought from that point on. The result came just four days after Benitez had guaranteed Liverpool would finish in the top four.
Liverpool 1-2 Reading
FA Cup replay, January 13, 2010
It appeared Liverpool had avoided an embarrassing FA Cup exit when Gerrard equalised after Simon Church had put Reading - struggling in the Championship - in front in the first meeting at the Madejski stadium. Surely Liverpool's class would tell in the replay, right?
Wrong.
Liverpool took the lead in first-half injury time thanks to Ryan Bertrand's own goal, but it was no more than Reading deserved when they forced a penalty deep in added time in the second half.
Gylfi Sigurdsson equalised from the spot, and then Shane Long capped a stunning night at Anfield with the winner in extra time.
It meant that the only realistic silverware on offer to Liverpool for the remainder of the season was the Europa League, a quest that eventually ended in the semi-finals.
Birmingham City 1-1 Liverpool
Premier League, April 4, 2010
Liverpool's chances of finishing in the top four and securing a Champions League place were fading by the game, and this result further dented their hopes.
But this game was significant mainly for the body language of Gerrard and Torres when the latter was substituted and which was caught by television cameras.
As Torres ran off, he appeared to be asked why he was going off by captain Gerrard, to which the Spaniard shrugged his shoulders with a blank look. Gerrard was then shown to scratch his head with a look of astonished disgust at his manager's decision.
If ever there was any doubt that Benitez had lost the dressing room, it was encapsulated in that moment.
It was still not even a year since the 4-4 draw with Arsenal that all but ended their push for the Premier League title - an alarming indication of Liverpool's rapid decline.
Liverpool 2-2 Northampton Town
(Northampton win 4-2 on penalties)
League Cup, September 22, 2010
Benitez's departure in the summer was never going to right all the wrongs at Anfield, but the one thing his replacement Roy Hodgson was expected to bring was a greater belief and team spirit.
Neither were present as Liverpool slumped to arguably the worst defeat in their history against Northampton Town, currently 17th in the lowest rung of the English league ladder.
All seemed to be fine when Milan Jovanovic crashed home the opening goal early on, but steadily Liverpool lost the initiative — and Northampton seized it.
It was a deserved equaliser struck by Billy Mckay midway through the second half, and Michael Jacobs scrambled home a second in extra time in front of a demoralised Kop.
An Ngog header somehow squeezed in to force the game to penalties, but even an early miss from Northampton was not enough of a gift for Liverpool to capitalise on. Ngog and Nathan Ecclestone missed, allowing Abdul Osman to score a spot-kick that will live long in the memory for both sets of supporters, for wildly contrasting reasons.
Shining the torch somewhere other than Hicks' cupboard.
Its ... what is going to happen to correct it?
The rot set in well before the Northampton game.
