Source: Liverpool_Echo
Tommy Smith: Liverpool FC problems begin at the top
SOMETHING has gone badly wrong on the pitch at Liverpool. We can all see it and it's painful stuff. There are problems almost everywhere you look - and almost as many reasons for them.[LNB]Without Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres we do seem to struggle. Any team would miss world class stars like these but we are over-reliant on them, it's true.[LNB]Rafa Benitez has made mistakes of course and he has got an awful lot on his hands now to put things right. He's not beyond criticism and has to accept his share of the blame for things, of course. But those people calling for his head because of this alarming, sudden dip in results are way off the mark as I see it.[LNB]Because the truth for me is this.[LNB]If things have just started to go wrong on the pitch, then off it they have been wrong - very wrong - for two and a half years now.[LNB]The American owners have screwed the club up and are still doing so. They are hardly ever there, hardly on speaking terms I hear and showing no sign of doing the decent thing - selling up and getting out.[LNB]True Liverpool fans would far rather see the back of Tom Hicks and George Gillett than a popular and proven manager who is yet capable of putting things right again.
