A lot of that, it must be said, wasn’t his fault. The ownership of Tom Hicks and George Gillett took its toll on everyone at Liverpool. A fair proportion of it undoubtedly was down the Benitez, however, and for his next employers’ sake he must have come to realise the mistakes as he opened the doors of his Wirral home to the media in an effort to alter perceptions. At the very least, he must have often wondered how on earth he’d allowed circumstances to develop where he could lose his job to Roy Hodgson.