northampton

Just when you think things can't get any worse at Anfield, then comes a defeat at the hands of lowly Northampton Town in tonight's third-round of the League Cup.

The goodwill Roy Hodgson received on becoming our manager has largely evaporated due to an indifferent set of results, matched by all too-familiar Rafa-like tactics.

You can accept a narrow defeat at Old Trafford, but against a Berbatov hat-trick? Come on now, the man is a horse, and a lame one at that. But shit happens. And we carry on.

Tonight's game should've been a formality. But, like Everton found out last night, the lower league sides very rarely lie down nowadays. It's a nice idea for some of the fringe players to get a start, but coupled with blaise attitudes of the senior players they're coupled with, it's asking for trouble.

Northampton deserved their win, and will surely party like no party's partied before! But, given a little time, they will reflect on the inescapable fact that Liverpool Football Club took the piss out of them tonight, denying them the professional respect and game they surely merited.

So much dead wood played for Liverpool tonight. Some of our kids are talented enough to make the grade at a Zingari Sunday League side.

Not content with the owners taking us to the cleaners, it seems the new manager is of a similar mind.