Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson again was short with reporters after being forced to field questions about his own future yesterday.
He became increasingly frustrated at the line of questioning, although he accepted it was something he had become used to during his short time at the club.
"Once again I come here to do a European press conference, playing Utrecht when we are top of the table, and I find myself answering questions about owners and whether I am safe. It is a sad situation," he said.
"I came here to do a European press conference, which I am forced to do for UEFA, when really and truly I am doing a phone-in with you.
"That is the nature of the game, it seems to be the major preoccupation of the mass media because they want to see change.
"It doesn't bother me because I can't do more than I am doing, I can't work harder, I can't work better. I have great confidence in my ability, I don't think there is any reason not to have.
"I know the players are working as hard as they can to win matches for Liverpool and therefore me as manager.
"But if you have situations like last night when you have phone-ins to the owners you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know how that is going to go because we are not top of the league.
"Had we been top of the league it might have been different but we are not, we are ninth and we are Liverpool Football Club.
"You don't have to be Albert Einstein to work out more people will be unhappy with that than are happy with it."
