King Kenny's been overthrown.

So Kenny Dalglish has been sacked. The question is are we surprised? We all know football's a ruthless business take today for example, (May 16th) as soon as the 23 man squad for England was announced, the top trend on social networking site twitter was 'Hodgson Out' it's hardly fair to go to that extreme, especially when Roy hasn't even had his first match in charge yet. (God 'The Sun' are going to have a field day with 'John Ruddy' being selected, they've already mocked his speech impediment ). But that's football we love it, we hate it, it's never left alone, fans always want more and rightly so.

Anyway back to the king and I'm not talking about the blue suede shoes one, it appears my good article's are pun-ning away from me. See a terrible joke in a serious football blog , bet you weren't expecting that. Anyway King Kenny. It was the second coming of the king in January 2011 and while everyone was excited about his return, critics had their doubts (what a shock, I know) but unfortunately the cynics were right this time, annoyingly I know. However to all those diehard Dalglish fans reading this, which I doubt there will be, it hasn't worked this time. Simple. Once again, and I hate to be the bearer of bad news but all the neutrals can see as well as I, but I think FSG have bravely got it right.

There's several reasons why as well, poor buys, a poor placed finish and an overall poor performance this season. Two words sum up Dalglish's second experience in the Anfield hot seat and they are Andy Carroll. £35 million, it's a astonishing amount of money even in the football world, unless you're Man City. In all fairness to him, he's on a run of form now and has been named in the England squad so well done to him but for the hefty price tag, 6 goals in 42 starts is simply not enough. 

Also spending £20 million a piece on Jordan Henderson and Stewart Downing, Henderson might improve in the future but Downing? Really? This is a personal opinion obviously, but I think for £20 million Liverpool could have and should have signed a much better winger.

Now, in all fairness to Kenny I am fan and what he has done for Liverpool is remarkable also winning the 'Carling Cup' and reaching the 'FA Cup Final' is better than what my team achieved this season,  but they narrowly beat Cardiff on penalties. That is simply not good enough for a club with so much rich history. The statistics don't lie, worst finish since 1994 and with Liverpool finishing 8th, yes 8th winning as many games as they have lost, looking back on it based on statistics it seemed likely. 

Now obviously, what's gone on this season hasn't helped with the Luis Suarez racial incident and the increasing pressure on players like Carroll, Downing and Henderson to deliver and haven't, won't have helped King Kenny's cause. I might add they seemed to be one of the most unlucky teams this season with the amount of times they've missed open goals and hit the woodwork, but the bitter truth is the king has been made to look like a pauper, and so the king's reign has come to the end. (oh another pun).

So the question is, who will replace him? Surely not Rafa Benitez? That would be terrible as he left the place in such a mess last time, although not all his fault and personally I don't think Roberto Martinez is able to take on such a difficult task like Liverpool just yet. But they're the joint favourites. Who knows, we'll have to find out. But what I do know is, whoever it is, they will have a mammoth task on their hands.