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Tommy Smith: Hicks & Gillett Have 'Screwed Up' Liverpool
Former Reds hardman livid about Americans' Anfield tenure…
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Oct 22, 2009 11:32:26 AM
Tommy Smith thinks Liverpool's co-owners are making a mess of the club.
"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," the former Reds centre-back told The Liverpool Echo.
"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.
"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."
Smith has also has admitted that he is baffled by Liverpool's defending from set-pieces.
The former defender cannot understand why every single player comes back into the Red penalty area at corners.
He feels that the approach is overly cautious and invites unnecessary pressure onto the defence.
"It maddens me to see every Liverpool player in our box to defend corners," he fumed.
"If we left two up it would mean opponents having to keep players back, as used to happen. We'd still have a goalkeeper and eight players to defend things, which for me is plenty and also gives us a chance of picking up the clearances.
"Right now the ball just comes straight back at us. It's crazy."
Zack Wilson, Goal.com UK
"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," the former Reds centre-back told The Liverpool Echo.
"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.
"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."
Smith has also has admitted that he is baffled by Liverpool's defending from set-pieces.
The former defender cannot understand why every single player comes back into the Red penalty area at corners.
He feels that the approach is overly cautious and invites unnecessary pressure onto the defence.
"It maddens me to see every Liverpool player in our box to defend corners," he fumed.
"If we left two up it would mean opponents having to keep players back, as used to happen. We'd still have a goalkeeper and eight players to defend things, which for me is plenty and also gives us a chance of picking up the clearances.
"Right now the ball just comes straight back at us. It's crazy."
Zack Wilson, Goal.com UK
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