Proof Rodgers will get all the time he wants

Sports personalities in Boston always have a one-way ticket to Palookaville in their back pocket.

Such is the microscopic glare of the mushrooming volume of media outlets in that city, no stone is left unturned when the sports press sets out to crush whichever overpaid underachiever is rattling the cages of its infamously intolerant fanbases.

But Red Sox and Liverpool owner John Henry is not built in that mould and he has proven that this season by sticking with the often disastrous Bobby Valentine, the mildly eccentric team manager of their baseball interests.