I don’t know if I’ll be able to continue to stand in front of television

I don’t know if I’ll be able to continue to stand in front of television cameras and radio microphones and either lie through my teeth and say it doesn’t matter that the referees are doing what they’re doing, or tell the truth and then everyone takes me to task over it.”Hodgson added: “Jason [Wilcox, who was sent off in the 80th minute for his second yellow card for a foul on Gregory Coupet] didn’t mean to go in late on the goalkeeper, that’s for sure, but I don’t understand why, after being fouled in the back constantly, he was booked for protesting.”We didn’t think it was a penalty and I thought it was a good header by Christian Dailly before their first goal. Rovers went out of Europe at the first-round stage for the third time in five years after drawing 2-2 in France on Tuesday and losing 3-2 on aggregate. THE BLACKBURN manager, Roy Hodgson, has revealed that his side’s heartbreaking Uefa Cup exit at the hands of Lyons has left him in the depths of despair. He didn’t have that much to do, but he made a couple of fine saves near the end. But every game is under review, Brad has admitted that he had an uncertain 20 minutes at Old Trafford, but apart from that he’s not done a lot wrong.”Karlheinz Riedle is expected to have recovered from flu in time to be back in the squad to play Chelsea, and that leaves another problem of who to play up front now that Robbie Fowler has come back into the side with four goals since his recovery from injury.Houllier said: “Robbie has been out for seven months, and we know we can be indulgent He is aware he is fit enough but still needs sharpness.”.

“There was a chance for David to play in the first team, and he did well. He said: “David James needs to play some games at a certain level, that’s one reason why he was in. We’ve always said that we have two good goalkeepers and that means the goalkeeper that plays sometimes is the one who is the fittest or who needs a game, that is all.”It’s too early to say who will play against Chelsea, we will have to see. David did well, but he didn’t have that much to do out there.”Evans agreed. They also gave Dominic Matteo and Vegard Heggem their chance to impress in the second half against Kosice.Houllier claimed no decision on the goalkeeping problem had been made.

Evans and his co-manager, Gerard Houllier, must decide who plays in goal against Chelsea, and the construction of their much-maligned defence.On Tuesday, David James played his first senior game since February in place of Brad Friedel, who had a match to forget in the 2-0 defeat at Manchester United last week. They know all about his injury, because he picked it up on the hard grounds in France.”We admire Macca’s attitude that he wants to play every game, but if he did it might effect him in the long term, and our first concern has to be about him.”The McManaman situation is not the only worry thrown up following the 8-0 aggregate success over the Slovakian champions. He is likely to be named by Hoddle tomorrow for the Wembley match on 10 October but Liverpool, who were forced to leave him out of the Uefa Cup tie against Kosice on Tuesday, fear that the 26 year-old will not be fit to face Chelsea at Anfield on Sunday.
That will leave them with a dilemma. Liverpool believe that McManaman needs two to three weeks’ rest to get over the injury, and they will hope that Hoddle will accept the situation and agree to the player staying on Merseyside for more treatment.Liverpool are mindful of the uproar caused two summers ago when they withdrew Robbie Fowler and McManaman from England duty, but hope that, if they decide McManaman needs rest, then the England authorities will accept their decision.The Anfield club’s joint manager, Roy Evans, said: “If we feel that missing the Chelsea game might be the answer, so be it We are looking to England to be sympathetic. Kieren Fallon’s mount, though, has been confirmed as Paul Cole’s Courteous.

Twenty-one have stood their ground for the Champion Stakes at Newmarket on 17 October. Aidan O’Brien has left Second Empire and Kitza in the race and Tommy Stack’s Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Tarascon is also entered. The Andre Fabre-trained Limpid and Xaar also appear in the list, alongside Pascal Bary’s Croco Rouge.
The weights will rise 5lb for the Cesarewitch Handicap on the same card after top-weight Rainwatch was among 15 horses taken out of the race at yesterday’s second forfeit stage.Bold Gait tops the weights on 9st 10lb, and the ante-post favourite Lord Lamb is now only 3lb out of the handicap on 7st 7lb Forty-two remain in the contest, but only 36 can run.. LIVERPOOL COULD ask the England manager, Glenn Hoddle, to spare Steve McManaman from international duty when he names his European Championship squad to face Bulgaria. McManaman was selected for the squad that lost to Sweden but was sent home before the party left for Stockholm because of his Achilles problem. Before any additions, there are just 12 runners left, following the removal yesterday of Ebadiyla, the sole remaining Irish challenger, and Venetia Williams’s Stretarez, among others. Taylor is bidding to be the first Australian captain to win a series in Pakistan in 39 years and erase memories of the pair he scored on his side’s last visit.
“On my last tour here in 1994-95, I had just taken over the captaincy of Australia and started in a new role with a pair in the Karachi Test which Pakistan won, the memory of which is fresh in my mind and I want to erase that,” he said.It was in 1959-60 when, under Richie Benaud, the Australians last won a three-match series in Pakistan with victories in two Tests.