There is a well-known saying in American sport, often offered in support of coaches far more
embattled than Kenny Dalglish at this stage of his second honeymoon.
It says that you can't make chicken salad out of chicken****. Dalglish may well consider his
situation desperate enough to employ this coarse but vivid phrase when he sits down with owner John
W Henry.
Ted Williams, un indigente de 53 años de edad en Columbus Ohio tiene una voz magica y una
suerte tremenda, ya que después de haber caído en las garras del alcohol y las drogas, se
ganaba la vida en los cruceros con un cartel que decía lo siguiente:
"Tengo un regalo divino de voz.
The graffiti scrawled on a Melwood wall yesterday stated "Hodgson Out" but the Liverpool manager
was in at an early hour and still at his desk late into the afternoon, even though it was a
designated day off for most of the players whose capitulation at Blackburn Rovers on Wednesday
night left his job in such jeopardy.
Once bitten twice shy.
When Tom Hicks and George Gillett bought Liverpool FC back in 2007 there were many who looked at
their track record, didn't like what came up and promptly dismissed it.
It is easy to blame David Moores for not looking enough at how they carried out their business –
and, indeed, he had the responsibility to do that part of his job better – but the truth is that
most of us had heard about how Gillett had gone into bankruptcy because he had over extended
himself with loans or of the mismanagement at the Texas Rangers but no one was willing to put the
pressure on.
Tom Werner has vowed to restore the principles on which Liverpool FC built their success.
But the Liverpool chairman insists he does not need to oversee a revolution at Anfield.
After a turbulent three-and-a-half-year period under former owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, an
air of relative stability has been brought to matters off the pitch following October's
£300million purchase by New England Sports Ventures.
Liverpool and new owner John Henry (or John W. Henry as they seem to prefer across the pond)
finally got their man yesterday in agreeing to a transfer fee of up to £22.8 million with Dutch
giants Ajax for Luis Suarez. (Note: that's $36.2 million for you Yanks.)
The Eredivisie has long been a friendly environment and stepping stone for top young goal
scorers and the 24-year-old Uruguayan international is the latest to emerge from the popular
European pipeline.
