Should Brendan Rodgers go back?


There has been much debate as to how Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has failed to implement his five year plan on Merseyside straight away but are his answers back in South Wales.










There has been much debate as to how Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has failed to implement his five year plan on Merseyside straight away but are his answers back in South Wales.
“He could've killed him!” Twitter joked on Wednesday night. “He deserves an eight-game ban” many proclaimed. “That's a disgrace” many shouted through the internet when it came to light that Chelsea winger Eden Hazard had effectively 'Eric Cantona'd' Swansea City ballboy Charlie Morgan during the Capital One Cup semi-final encounter between the two sides.
“So what? It's only the Mickey Mouse Cup” fans regularly exclaimed to supporters of teams that had won the League Cup in the past.
Tomorrow Chelsea meet Leeds in the League Cup quarter finals, and it's a game that has the potential to entertain on three fronts: the bad blood, the personnel, and the cupset potential.
After fielding an ineligible against Brentford player Bradford City have been reinstated into the FA Cup. The question is: why?
Leeds United may currently be a point closer to the relegation zone than the automatic promotion places, but nobody should rule out a return to the big time for Neil Warnock’s men.
Remember when Wigan's left back scored Maynor Figueroa scored that incredible goal in 2009 from inside is own half? That was ridiculous. Figueroa has been a regular starter for Wigan going on nearly four years and he does a decent enough job. I think it would be fair to say that manager Roberto Martinez gets the best out of him.
After Tuesday night's quite remarkable Capital One Cup game between Reading and Arsenal (Marouanne Chamakh scoring twice! And one was a chip!) Sky's cameras caught a couple of Arsenal fans leaving the Madejski stadium at half time, disgusted at their team's first half display in which Arsenal conceded four goals. Yes, how silly they must have felt listening to the game on the way home.
Well, what a truly mesmerising two days of football that has been? A 7-5 thriller between Arsenal and Reading on Tuesday, while Chelsea and Manchester United tried in vain to replicate the 12 goal ‘slobberknocker’ with the Blues taking their Premier League rivals to extra time before securing a 5-4 win to take them into the quarter finals of the Capital One Cup.
I don’t think that there have ever been two games that have shown off the unpredictability of English football, and the value of the Capital One Cup in the English game.
Arsene Wenger summed it up excellently last night when he jokingly claimed “that’s the first set to us.”
It’s fair to say that Arsenal’s start to the season has been far more positive than last year. After five Premier League games, the Gunners have conceded just two goals, compared to the 14 they had already shipped by the same point last season.