KENNY DALGLISH’S flaming of his hapless Liverpool players is long overdue. For months now their failure to deliver has forced Dalglish into ever more agonised public contortions as he tries to defend them.

WE ALL knew Giovanni Trapattoni wouldn’t want to look at any new players before Euro 2012, but it was still a little disappointing to hear him confirm it on Friday.

MARK HUGHES seems like a realistic man, so he must have squirmed to hear his new chief executive at Queens Park Rangers, Philip Beard, talking about his dream of QPR winning the Premier League.

FOR a man who had just seen his team become the first to win at Manchester City since December 2010, Alex Ferguson did not seem especially happy.