Terrace Talk: Liverpool: Motormouth Brendan Rodgers is playing us all for suckers

“I now declare these 2015 Blame Games open.”

Normally you’d have royalty do this sort of thing. Get the fat parasite toffs off their arses and actually do something for their billions (they’re worse than footballers), but since nobody else seems interested in the plight of Liverpool FC any more it’s left to me.

Just don’t hand me any kind of torch, because in this mood you never know what’ll happen. The whole place might go up. Everyone is turning on each other. The pain won’t go away but at least you can inflict it on somebody else and make them miserable too.

Who can blame us when the manager, who’s been at one of the biggest clubs in the world for three years, says without an atom of self-consciousness after losing a cup tie to Aston bloody Villa that the players couldn’t deal with pressure.

If true, how is that acceptable? If not, how can he possibly get away with that deflective nonsense?

The truth is he’s not been in control of his own gob from day one. You act deaf and dumb when the wins are plentiful and the goals are flying in. Once that stops, you suddenly hear all the drivel clear as a bell and realise you’re being played for suckers.

He’s been talking over-overtime this week, about being “150% the right man”. The only man, if you please. He might be right, because people are kidding themselves about Klopp. The gurning gimp had a bad year at Dortmund but can still expect to be courted by someone with a genuine challenge in mind.

As Swansea sneak up behind us that’s about the level where any replacement would emerge. It’s small wonder people are beginning to accuse the owners (five years now, don’t forget) of being small-time.

The new stand is on the rise of course, but fat chance of filling it when you can’t spot a decent player to save your life. What’s everyone in it for, anyway? A few more bob to go into an account that would take you several lifetimes of excess to empty anyway? Someone close to the manager started to seep out a few well-chosen words about how there’ll be a player exodus this summer, the insinuation being it’ll be Rodgers replacing them because he had bugger all to do with last summer.

All rather neato, except with six games to go and tongues wagging about your own future maybe try and keep everyone on-side until you don’t actually need them?

“You’re on your way out, but if you wouldn’t mind pulling your tripes out for me during this last month, there’s a good chap”. Yep, that’ll work. Glen Johnson’s always been the sacrifice type.

West Brom were horrible. It’s Pulis, what did you expect? There’ll be some kind of boycott of Hull City tomorrow, but you won’t need to if more managers decide to play football like that.

It’s stopping Liverpool fans from boycotting the rest of the season that’s the problem. It’s fun for a while playing Formation Bingo with Brendan’s latest brain-fade and there actually was some racket from the away end until the stodgy fare squeezed the joy out of it.

Lovren stood out. Seriously. That’s like when you let the water out of the bath and watch the stink of the day cling to the sides.

One man upfront, and that was Mario. That doesn’t work so throw Borini on — for Balotelli. That’s not a change, doofus. At least Gerrard got in some practice for his LA stroll.

In Rodgers’ position he wants the Dirty Dozen but instead got the cast from La Cage Aux Folles. Afterwards he whined about Suarez/Sturridge and not having “the 52 goals from last season”. And not a penny to help prevent that? What a disgrace. Oh no, hang on… Get a boat and a paddle, because a bullshit tsunami is coming.