Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson is surprised by the intense scrutiny of his actions this season. The former Fulham chief is under pressure after a poor start to the season and has found a lot of his decisions dissected in minute detail by pundits and fans.
Hodgson said: "This football club have a lot of players who have played for Liverpool for a long time.
"Every other day they've probably read or heard some nonsense about them and they seem to be a pretty hardened bunch.
"I'm relatively hardened but I've been spared too much at Fulham, where never a bad word was said.
"It is an interesting thing for me to get into the type of mindset Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard are so good at.
"Having heard and seen it all before they are quite prepared to shrug their shoulders and write it off.
"It is part and parcel of the business of working for Liverpool Football Club. I am beginning to turn it around myself."
They remain in the bottom three but last week's performance and victory over Blackburn has eased the pressure.
He said: "I hope we carry on from where we left off last Sunday because I thought that was a good team performance and a great victory.
"It is very important from the first minute at the Reebok Stadium we are as committed as we were for 90 minutes against Blackburn.
"Coming into the next quarter of the season, I'm hoping it won't be as traumatic as the first one has been.
"I am hoping by the halfway stage we will be starting to see a little bit of light.
"I'm not believing naively we are going to win seven out of nine and fly up to the top of the table but I do want us to move from of the relegation zone.
"I want us to continue giving performances where we know from first minute to last we are going to be very difficult to beat and we are going to ask a lot of questions of the opposition."
