Failed Football Experiments- Roy Hodgson’s Liverpool

Who was Hodgson’s most expensive signing in summer 2011, arrivng from Porto costing £11.5m?

Who did he sign for £4.5m from Juventus?

£3m from Fulham?

£2.3m from Middlesbrough?

£2m from Rangers?

£1.7m from Charlton?

Free from Chelsea?

Free from Standard Liege?

Who left the club and joined Chelsea for £50m?

Who left the club and joined Barcelona for £17.25m?

Who went to Chelsea for £5.5m?

Who went to Olympiacos for £4m?

Who knocked Liverpool out of the League Cup on 22nd September 2010 on penalties following a 2-2 draw in their first game of the competition that year?

Embarrasing right?, even worse it happened at Anfield. Also at Anfield, Liverpool suffered an embarrasing defeat at the hands of one time Premier League participants, Blackpool Town, losing 2-1 on 3rd October 2010. Who scored Liverpool’s consolation goal after 53 minutes?

How many of his 20 Premier League games did Hodgson lose?

Hodgson did find slightly more success in the Europa League groupstage, winning 2 games at home against which two teams?

Liverpool failed to score in 3 of their UEL group stage games. True or False?

To pile on more misery, Liverpool lost to relegation threatened Wolves at home on 29th December 1-0 with a goal from who after 56 minutes?

The straw that broke the camel’s back was a 5th January 3-1 defeat to which relegation threatened team?

Liverpool were dominated comprehensively in this game and suffered goals from Martin Olsson and who else?

Despite this player pulling a goal back for Liverpool, he also missed a penalty towards the end of the game which was an uncharacteristic miss for a player of his quality, spawning an unconfirmed conspiracy theory that he missed on purpose, so Liverpool would lose and Hodgson would be sacked. Who was that player?

3 days after the 5th January debacle, Hodgson was sacked and replaced by who?