The parallel between the start of the 2010/11 season for Liverpool Football Club was drastic, immense and vast. Starting the season with a new manager who was completely unwanted by the majority of supporters, who were still angry at losing fan favourite Rafael (Rafa) Benitez and having seen club icon Kenny Dalglish been looked over by the clubs decision makers.

I hated the things he said, I hated his insistence on outdated tactics, and I hated his inability to accept an ounce of personal responsibility, but all those failings were the personal flaws of a man in over his head. And yes, I suppose I hated that he became a kind of symbol as the last remnant of the previous owners' legacy, too, but then that could hardly be his own fault.