Houllier feeling the heat

THE late-night airwaves, with football fans negotiating exasperating traffic jams, are not renowned for the most considered of opinions.

They are invariably inhabited by bigots, drunks parked on the hard shoulder to relieve themselves of frustration amongst other things, loud-mouths and know-it-alls.

But even allowing for the usual Mr Angry of Tunbridge Wells, characters who make a career out of complaining, the vitriol which followed Liverpool's goalless draw against Tottenham was remarkable in its intensity coming, as it did, just 10 days into a new season.