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With all the furore over Luis Suarez getting another ban, Liverpool getting a £20,000 fine over
Jay Spearing getting sent off and all the dismal draws instead of wins as we slide down the table,
it is the same old story with Liverpool FC, failure to beat lower league opposition, failure to
stay in touch with the Manchester teams and now Tottenham Hotspur.
Gerard Houllier has managed some exceptional players during his career but in a recent interview,
Liverpool's treble-winning boss reserved special praise for former Man United player David
Beckham.Speaking to France Football, Houllier had nothing but good things to say about Beckham, who
could be on the verge of a move to Paris St.
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Liverpool can challenge for title under Kenny Houllier
ex-Kop boss reckons the Reds will be back in Europe next season and aiming for the top spot
View the full story here: The Mirror
A news article on 2011-12-17 22:58:46 from: The Mirror
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Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez were very different managers in many ways but one thing they
shared was a preference for hard-work and stamina over unpredictable flair and creativity. Players
like Dirk Kuyt and Emile Heskey symbolised the footballing philosophy of both managers, and
Liverpool legend John Barnes believes that Liverpool are still suffering as a result of
prioritising hard-work
Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has played under 5 different managers during his career at
Anfield, and although he has great respect for both Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez, Carra argues
that both managers set their teams up to play long ball football.
Carra, who is currently being kept out of the Liverpool team by Daniel Agger and Martin Skrtel,
told The Telegraph:
"Don't give me all this 'It's the fancy dan foreign coaches' who play all the great football,
either.
Bellamy: Dalglish has us playing the Liverpool way again
Tactics never felt right under Houllier and Benitez says lifelong Red
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Misfiring Andy Carroll gives limp Liverpool a new kind of 'Tosh'
• Striker still struggling to justify his £35m transfer fee • 'We've shown we are here to
fight,' says Swansea manager The pre-match Remembrance silence here evoked all sorts of memories,
of football's past, as well as the fallen.
Liverpool striker Craig Bellamy believes that Liverpool 'lacked something' under Gerard Houllier,
Rafa Benitez and Roy Hodgson, and despite the trophies won, he feels that the style of football
being played under Kenny Dalglish is what fans should be expecting from Liverpool FC.
Bellamy, who has scored two goal in 5 appearances so far this season, argued:
"Over the last 10 years, the club has won trophies, and we've had good managers who've done very
well, but it still wasn't Liverpool for me; it still lacked something for me.
Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher believes England are 'cheating' by having a foreign manager in
charge of the national team.
Fabio Capello was handed the reins after Steve McClaren failed to guide the Three Lions to
qualification for Euro 2008, and persuaded Carragher to briefly come out of international
retirement for last summer's World Cup.
Jaime Carragher has had a "pop" about Chelsea and our appointment of AVB ahead of up and coming
British managers. When asked about foreign managers here he said:
"Benitez, Houllier, Mourinho – they've all got things about them in terms of having
won the big trophies. Does that mean English managers don't get a chance at the Premier
League?
Rafa Benitez was probably stealing the job of a deserving Englishman, and that's bad. But Joe
Cole might be stealing the job of a Frenchman now, so that kind of balances it all out. Maybe.
Mostly I'm just confused. In any case, I think this is the Wednesday news and notes.
Probably...
* Jamie Carragher went on TalkSport today to have a little chat with the regrettable duo
of Andy Gray and Richard Keys.
Jamie Carragher has been talking.
What's cool is that someone actually understood him, enough to translate his mumbling into
prose. Even cooler, he's managed to make himself look even more daft than usual.
Jamie was apparently in the midst of a rant toward the FA regarding home-grown managers.
In this new series, I'll be looking back at some of Liverpool's FC's most demoralizing football
moments; incidents and games that left fans in a state of shock for weeks – and sometimes months
– afterwards. I'll start off with an infamous game from January 1999 that sent Gerard Houllier's
team into freefall and arguably ended the club's season: The soul-destroying FA Cup 4th round
defeat to
Kenny Dalglish continues to echo the old values at Liverpool
• Dalglish pledges to stick with club's traditions • Manager praises veteran defender
Carragher Kenny Dalglish has pledged that his commitment to "the Liverpool way" will not falter
whatever setbacks the club encounter this season.
Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish shows strain after Stoke defeat
• Dalglish complains about standard of Premier League referees • Liverpool consider lodging
an official complaint For those with ambition and an appreciation of history there are few more
appealing jobs in football than that of Liverpool manager.
Since Kenny Dalglish took over the managerial hotseat at Anfield there has been great improvements
made on the pitch and off the pitch.
We have bought good players with potential and hunger to win trophies. Many people have said
recently Kenny has paid inflated prices for players in the two transfer windows since he has been
in charge.
Over the past week or so we've had bookies' favourite after bookies' favourite billed as the
next Aston Villa manager, only to later be dismissed almost as quickly as they emerged. I could
count all the posts on the subject from the various Aston Villa blogs and news outlets I subscribe
to, but I'm pretty certain it's easily in triple digits.
Over the past week or so we've had bookies' favourite after bookies' favourite billed as the
next Aston Villa manager, only to later be dismissed almost as quickly as they emerged. I could
count all the posts on the subject from the various Aston Villa blogs and news outlets I subscribe
to, but I'm pretty certain it's easily in triple digits.
Mark Hughes will not be the new Aston Villa manager and has been left without a club after walking
out on Fulham on Thursday night. The Welshman had been the favourite to succeed Gérard Houllier
but Villa, unimpressed with the course of events that culminated in Hughes activating a break
clause in his contract and leaving Fulham, have turned their attention elsewhere.
Update:
What's changed since we did this piece below in March:
• The Resurgence of Stan Petrov at Aston Villa
The skinny: After coming back from injury, the captain increasingly found the
pitch for Villa as they navigated away from relegation waters.
I realize this is a radical question that can easily be misinterpreted as being defeatist or
lacking ambition. But that doesn't take away the fact that apart from Wenger no one has come close
to winning the Premiership on Arsenal's budget. Even then if we accept for a moment that Arsene
should go, it's important to consider who can come in and deliver the big trophies.
As someone who idolises Sir Alex Ferguson for what he has done at Manchester United in a quarter of
a century, the second last thing I want to see is for him to walk away, saying with rightful...
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It was honours even at Villa Park after a frustrating performance led to points being dropped
for the second time against Fulham this season. An own goal from John Pantsil and a superb goal
from Kyle Walker were both cancelled out by goals from Andrew Johnson and Clint
Dempsey.
Dr Joel RookwoodThe 2003-04 season had ground to a halt on Merseyside, as Houllier's Liverpool breathed its last
monotonous, mediocre breath. Unaware that an inspired Spanish successor would lead the club to the
European crown twelve months later, I headed south for the final weekend of the French/Spanish
leagues: Bordeaux V Monaco preceded by Athletic Bilbao V Atletico Madrid.
It has been a week of comebacks, but as entertaining as a good comeback is, lets hope for a more
convincing victory from Manchester United when they play Aston Villa at Old Trafford this
evening.
Still unbeaten and hopefully we can make it 29 league matches against a team, that you could say
are they only opponent we have faced who have completely outplayed us over 90 minutes.
It's been the busiest January transfer window I can remember testimony to our lack of activity
in the summer and position in the table at the turn of the year so I thought it worth putting a
summary together on a day that will inevitably be dominated by Fernando Torres
rumours and counter-rumours.
Houllier's much rotated side ensured their place in the draw for the 5th round of the FA Cup
thanks to goals from Ciaran Clark, Robert Pires and
Nathan Delfouneso, but were forced to see out just under 30 minutes with 10 men
after Nathan Baker was shown a straight red card for a dangerous tackle on David
Hoilett.
Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini has hailed Aston Villa's signing of Darren Bent. Bent
joined the Villans in a controversial move from Sunderland last week, and Mancini believes that the
arrival of the English striker will drastically change Villa's fortunes.
"Darren has impressed me," Mancini said.
Photo by lism
I can't remember the last time I had a chance to watch Liverpool play in the early Saturday
kick-off, so it'll be a treat to see them play in the early match against a Wolverhampton Wanderers
side who are cruising after they recent victories against Chelsea and Liverpool.
"I would have thought that, out of respect, maybe he would say 'we're interested in buying your
striker' in order to give me a chance to do something. I
did have the utmost respect for
Mr Houllier but I haven't had a call. We are disappointed."
Although Villa have publicly denied "tapping up" Bent, Bruce could not disguise lingering
suspicions to the contrary based on the unusual speed of the switch's completion.
In the previous post on Babel and the worst transfers of the last decade, I should have better
differentiated between a "bad player" and a "bad signing." Buying Alberto Aquilani was an awful,
awful deal, but Alberto Aquilani's an outstanding player. Philipp Degen is a terrible full-back but
was a free signing that didn't cost Liverpool much more than wages and overtime for the medical
staff.
By Ollie Irish
Number one, bitches
The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), which sounds like a
tremendously fun place to work, has voted Arsene Wenger the No.1 football coach of the last decade.
Wenger > Fergie, Mourinho, Allardyce, Megson, Brown et al.
And the hits just keep on coming.
Honestly, outside the first 20 minutes or so, I don't think we were too bad (although I
was expecting a little more vibrancy), a bit nervy here and there, but far from being second best.
Houllier named an unchanged side, they created chances, they had control of the game for the most
part, but made life difficult for themselves with frustrating mistakes.
And the hits just keep on coming.
Honestly, outside the first 20 minutes or so, I don't think we were too bad (although I
was expecting a little more vibrancy), a bit nervy here and there, but far from being second best.
Houllier named an unchanged side, they created chances, they had control of the game for the most
part, but made life difficult for themselves with frustrating mistakes.
