I'll bite - look at all the available stats. Roy's Liverpool had lost 7 games away from home by the end of 2010. Rafa's Red's lost 8 all season. Rafa won a total of 5 away games last year, Roy's team haven't looked like they could win another game away from home in 2011!
Roy was brought in to improve on last season he failed to do that.
Yes, check the stats and check what he said, not LAST SEASON, but the SECOND HALF OF LAST SEASON.
I've said it many times, away form disolved UNDER BENITEZ, not Hodgson, every single stat shows this.
Year before last, it was 3 years in a row you won between 13-16 away games a season, last season you won 5, 4 of those were in the first half of the season. If you look at European results and cup results aswell it gets even worse as you failed to beat some miserably bad teams in europe and the cup after xmas last season.
Benitez won a single away game in the 2010 CALENDER year, Hodgson did the same. Benitez won 20 points in the first 10 games at home last season, Hodgson did the same this season, from a worse starting point, as in, the first 7-9 games or something were horrific, and this was a team starting to find a new way, the second 8-9 games were MASSIVELY improved and you moved way up the table, one loss doesn't change that, especially as it was away.
It wasn't Benitez OR Hodgson who ruined away form, it was a certain striker who can't be bothered to do more than kick the other players away from home, and a certain red carded midfielder who couldn't pull out a decent performance away from home.
Though I would still blame Benitez for that as, he left the club with one real striker and Babel/Ngog as backup, no one else forced him to sell Bellamy, Crouch, everyone else and buy utter rubbish to replace them with. Hodgson wasn't given the choice to waste around 11mil on Babel IIRC, or buy Maxi, etc, etc.
Benitez built a team 100% reliant on Torres AND Gerrard having a GREAT game EVERY game to do well in the league, when those two stopped performing, so did Liverpool. Chelsea are suffering the same thing, they built a team reliant on Lampard to be great every game all year without fail, or be utterly utterly rubbish without him. Arsenal, Utd don't rely on any single player, or any 3 single players, they still pull out results.
I don't blame Torres or Gerrard either, I hate both, massively, cheats, Torres kicks everyone and Gerrard tries to kill everyone, and both dive like gits. But Torres is essentially playing with the pressure that, he scores, Liverpool go to europe, make money and manager stays, he fails to perform the team sucks, the team drops down the table, the manager gets fired, the fans get upset and the club loses loads of money. Its not unreasonable that a player with that kind of pressure on them will fail to perform frequently and be incredibly unhappy.
