Let's All Laugh At Chelsea

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"It's not his team"

Kenny Dalglish is currently delivering the last rites to Roy Hodgsons managerial career. The phrase "it's not his team" was repeated over and over from clowns trying to defend Hodgson. Now I think anyone who uttered them should have recent results smashed down their throats. Anybody who had the misfortune of watching Liverpool being literally torn apart by Blackburn and even more embarrassingly, Benjani, not even a month ago will of watched yesterdays performance with their jaw on the floor. Hodgson's attempt to turn Liverpool into Wimbledon circa 1988 failed and Dalglish is now turning water into wine. This "isn't Kennys team" either but due to the fact he isn't a moron he is managing to work with what he has  as all good managers do and has surely already done enough to become the permanent manager. One of the main cliches rolled out for Kenny was "he has been out the game too long". The formation Liverpool have switched to rubbishes that assumption, in the last week he has managed to bamboozle Tony Pulis, one of the more tactically astute managers in the Premier League and last seasons double winning manager.

LOL@CFC

Sorry Fernando, but like a naughty child, you had to learn the hard way. Yesterdays game was Torres' party, but like the naughty child he is, he was sent to his room and forced to watch from the sidelines as his former friends made all the noise downstairs. It was another great day for laughing at Chelsea. They are the chavvy lottery winning family who swapped KFC for The Ritz, much to the embarrassment of everyone else already at the top table.They make a lot of noise, they are are brash and annoying, but ultimately they are a joke. They are a sewer rat dressed up as a Royal Corgi. I am embarrassed on their behalf, their fans are that unoriginal that the took the "El Nino" banner, copied it to the extent that they even unknowingly copied the Shankly Gates onto their own banner. The Meireles goal now enters folklore with John 'England's Braveheart" Terry's Moscow penalty miss and Iniesta's last minute goal at Stamford Bridge. They are everything that is wrong with football and if Liverpool somehow beat Chelsea to a Champions League spot this season I would be willing to personally present the Premier League trophy to Man Utd at Old Toilet come May as a forfeit. It's as if the Gods of Karma look down on Abramovich with the disdain the rest of the footballing world do and long may it continue you bunch of mercenary rent boys.

Lucas Leiva our Brazilian Saviour

Okay, saviour might be a bit much but the progress of Lucas this season has been brilliant. I can't think of a player that's been ridiculed more than Lucas over the last few seasons. The main source of amusement seems to be because he is Brazilian, and that he doesn't possess the skill of Romario or Socrates.  Man Utd's Anderson cost 16m and Chelsea's Ramires 20m, neither have shown much to prove their "Brazilian-ness" and don't seem to come under half the abuse dished out to Lucas despite costing three times more and not establishing themselves in either of their sides. Anybody who still buys into the media myth that he is just another one of Rafa Benitez's "bad buys" needs to have a look at the stats. With a pass completion rate at Stamford Bridge of 88.9% and even more impressively hitting 89.1% against Stoke last Wednesday, it proves the sort of effect he is beginning to have on Liverpool's midfield. This from the player who Cecil Purslow aided by Agent Hodgson tried to force out during the summer, offering him the exotic destinations of Celtic or Stoke. It's to Lucas's credit that instead of sulking and moaning to the press in his  home country as the likes of Ryan Babel and Fernando Torres were guilty of, he has got his head down and worked hard to make himself one of the first names of the teamsheet. Once you've been nominated as the scapegoat it's a hard label to lose but if fans look past the media myths he might manage it.

Di Matteo

I can't claim that I know the ins and outs of West Brom, but the sacking of Roberto Di Matteo stinks. They might be on a poor run but they are West Brom what did they expect as a newly promoted side. They haven't spent millions to keep themselves in the Premier League and what Di Matteo was given seems to of been spent wisely. He has managed to take points off Arsenal and Man Utd during the season and for a change, they have given themselves a decent chance of staying up. Of all the teams that have come and given Liverpool a footballing lesson this season (and there's been a few), West Brom were probably one of the best. Also worth noting the names being linked with the job. Roy Hodgson the man who the English Press thought to be a great appointment for Liverpool not even a year ago, now appears well down the list at around 12/1 as Di Matteo's replacement. "Interesting".