Is that really true? Benitez spent millions on those players. I'll bet he spent more than Arsenal and even United in his time at Anfield. The squad he left was poor.

When a new man comes in, they will often appear to do worse simply because they are not his players and they do not fit his style. I honestly dont think Benitez would be doing much better than Hodgson and I think an awful lot of the negativity and bad feeling within the Liverpool club and it's fans came from Benitez and his constant moaning.

Hodgson isn't some inexperienced poster boy or yes man. He's a top class man manager who has coached some of the best players in the world during his career.

Tevez was offside for the first goal and Blackpool's goal was wrongly flagged.

Obviously I know City better than you but I never saw anything bar a struggle today. We just don't like it when teams get in amongst us.

Any talk of us challenging for the title is pie in the sky but talk of Blackpool staing up certainly isn't.

One thing this game proved is that our fringe players are not up to it. Our defence has been outstanding all season but throw Lescott in at centre half inside of Bridge at full back and it's a disaster waiting to happen/ Similalry, Adebayor is a joke now and we were ten times the team after Silva took his place.

Our first eleven is as good as anything out there, albeit in a boring kind of way, but beyond those eleven, then we struggle. With each passing week, it becomes more apparent that Mark Hughes was an utter clown when you handed him the chequebook.

Woy Out.

The dissalowed goal was pretty much 50/50 there was an offside player but i'm not sure he was interfearing with play, after the Gallas off side yesterday it was a goal allday.

Tevez was offside no question

Tevez clipped the defenders ankle in the build up to his second that was a definate free kick.

I feel sorry for pool as they played Citeh off the park and but for a couple of dodgy referees decisions city should not have won

So far this season we've played well twice (Liverpool & chelsea), been ok once (wigan) and had 5 performances that were varying degrees of poor. Difficult to work out why we're 2nd

Overall standard of the Premier League slipping?

Nice honest appraisal.

On another point, how fricken good was Charlie Adam today?

And Silva's goal was a work of football class.

You're second from bottom. You don't think, and have never thought, that Hodgson was the man for the job.

Screw image. The correct decision is to get Hodgson out the moment they can bring in someone from the top drawer. If Dalgleish would take a temporary position then I'd sack Hodgson now.

I've never quite got the hero worship that Benitez got from the Liverpool fans....His record was a touch iffy if you ask me.

First season he managed the almost impossible in finishing below Everton, though he managed to fluke a Champions League, which glossed over the obvious poor quality of that 1st effort. He did have an excuse in that it was still pretty much Houllier's side.

From then on, with full control over the transfer dealings, he proceeded with a rather haphazard, kamikaze approach to buying and selling....Forwards came and went, almost has if he was hoping through sheer luck, rather than any judgement, to piece together a winning formula.

Then when he finally gets close to completing the jigsaw, he gets in a bizarre tiff with one of his best players (Alonso), whilst hunting a pretty mediocre player in Gareth Barry.

His whole tenure was pretty well summed up for me in the Robbie Keane episode....If Benitez was in any other business but football, he'd have been fired on the spot for his incompetence on this one....First off, 20 million on a player who was probably worth half of that, 3 months later he realises what a mistake he's made and proceeds to flog him back to Spurs for half of that figure....It was comical and summed up the man's limitations.

The man was very lucky that he had Hicks & Gillett playing the panto villains, allowing him to make mistakes that would have sunk other managers a lot earlier than he eventually went.

though he managed to fluke a Champions League

If that was all he had done then you might have a point but he took us to another Champions League final 2 years later and won an FA Cup in the middle thats the kind of success teams dream of.

As for Keane ask Rick Parry.