On 1 July 2010, Roy Hodgson was appointed as a manager of Liverpool, signed a three year contract with the Anfield club. Hodgson, on his appointment said "This is the biggest job in club football and I’m honored to be taking on the role of manager of Britain's most successful football club. I look forward to meeting the players and the supporters and getting down to work at Melwood." Hodgson signed a contract with Joe Cole, on a free transfer from Chelsea, Christian Poulsen, from Juventus, and Paul Koncheskey, from his old club - Fulham. Along with a reasonable start and with a qualification to the play- offs of the Europa League secured via a 4-0 thrashing of minnows FC Rabotnicki. An enthusiastic performance and draw against Arsenal on the opening day of the 2010-11 Premier League season gave Liverpool fans reason to be pessimistic for the next season, although a red card to Joe Cole meant he would miss the next three league games. A 3-0 demolition by Manchester City at Eastlands set the tone for the Reds away form for the season, and a 1-0 victory against West Brom ended the month. Liverpool scraped through to the Europa League group stage with a 3-1 aggregate win. September was a poor display in a 3-2 defeat at Old Traford left Liverpool languishing mid- table in the Premier League. Even worse was one of Liverpool F.Cs most humiliating defeats of all time, a penalty defeat against League 2 Northampton in the Carling Cup. The September ended with a win and a draw in the Europa League group stage. Including a first ever Liverpool goal for Joe Cole.
Another hugely disappointing performance against Everton at Merseyside Derby a lost 2-0 led the Liverpool in deep trouble in the Premier League. Liverpool began to show signs of a recovery, with a convincing performance and 2-1 win against Blackburn at Anfield. A reasonable 0-0 away draw against Napoli provided further encouraging signs in Europe.Easily Liverpool's best performance under Roy came in a 2-0 win against Chelsea at Anfield. Ironically, both goals were scored by future Chelsea player Fernando Torres. Liverpool's recovery was somewhat halted after a surprise 1-1 draw against Wigan but Liverpool played at Anfield with a 3-0 win against West Ham. Despite leading Tottenham Hotspur at half time Liverpool collapsed at White Hart Lane and lost in the last minute- 2-1. Steven Gerrard inspired Liverpool to a 3-1 win against Napoli at Anfield, coming on as a half time substitute with Liverpool 1-0 down, Gerrard scored a marvelous hat trick to win the game. Liverpool thrashed Aston Villa at Anfield in their first December game, a 3-0 win against their former manager Gerard Houlier. However, another bad performance against Newcastle resulted in a 3-1 defeat at St James Park discouraged their fans.In Roy's last game at Anfield, Liverpool ran out 2-1 winners on a cold New Years Day against Bolton, thanks to a late Joe Cole winner. Liverpool's worst performance of the season, and some say their worst ever in the Premier League,humiliating defeat 3-1 by Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park also discouraged their fans. The Reds had been 3-0 down but Steven Gerrard managed to grab a consolation with ten minutes to go, and a late penalty could have made the score 3-2 but Gerrard blazed his penalty over and appeared to show little emotion after missing it sparking rumors that he missed it on purpose to get Roy fired.
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