Although, Manchester United secured a victory in the 3rd round of FA cup against Liverpool but the fashion in which Liverpool played has imparted a ray of hope in the hearts of Reds supporters and players. Kop Icon Kenny Daglish returned to the dug out of Liverpool after two decades.
However, the match was overshadowed by two controversial decisions by world cup final referee Howard Webb. He gave away a soft penalty in the first minute of the match and also produced a straight red card to captain Steven Gerrard just after the half hour mark. Both decisions were met with heavy criticism from supporters. Apart from supports Liverpool Winger Ryan Babel also criticized the performance of Howard Webb on his official twitter account and now Football (–foul word(s) removed–)ociation of England is looking into the matter of penalizing Babel for his outburst against Webb.
9,000 travelling Liverpool supporters sang the name of their Legend King Kenny throughout the match and Kenny Daglish himself admitted that he wanted to run towards that end of the field where Liverpool supporters were supporting their team.
However, footballing experts and supports of all other clubs are divided that whether Kenny Daglish will be able to make an instant impact as Liverpool try to rescue their one of the worst seasons in their long and illustrious history. Some experts say that Daglish needs to adapt to the modern day football whereas die hearted Liverpool supporters say that Kenny don’t need to adapt to modern day football because he has the footballing knowledge and has got all the guts to prove himself again on Anfield hot seat.
After Roy Hodgson left, the dream of Liverpool supports has been fulfilled with the appointment of Kenny Daglish and now we can expect a real turn around in fortunes of Liverpool Football Club in coming weeks as their Messiah has come again to save the club from becoming a laughing stock for others. Their next game is against Black Pool who started to pile misery on Hodgson in October 2010 and after this game Liverpool welcome their City rivals Everton at Anfield.