Kop This; As Rumours Mount That He Is to Be Replaced by Martin O'neill, Gerard Houllier Seems to Be Living On Borrowed Time at Anfield. Natasha Woods Reports
Sunday Herald › January 06, 2004
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HIS tongue may have been lodged firmly in his cheek, but when John Toshack was asked about Liverpool's trip to face Yeovil today, the Anfield legend suggested if the better team played to form it shouldn't be much of a contest. But this being the FA Cup, he added, Liverpool might just win.
Black humour comes easily at moments like this. The sloping Somerset pitch which helped to trip up Sunderland on a similar occasion back in 1949 has long since gone, but Gerard Houllier is under enough pressure already without an embarrassing slip-up at Huish Park.See the full content of this document
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Kop This; As Rumours Mount That He Is to Be Replaced by Martin O'neill, Gerard Houllier Seems to Be Living On Borrowed Time at Anfield. Natasha Woods Reports
Last spring Martin O'Neill was busy denying stories linking him to Anfield; a year on and that same clamour of speculation has grown even louder as Liverpool prepare to take on Division Three opposition in the third round of the cup.
Defeat, however unlikely, would test to the limit the traditional premise that Liverpool are not "a sacking club".Yet the "minimum acceptable target" pointedly restated by his chairman, David Moores, ...See the full content of this document
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