Roy Hodgson is facing something of a thankless task to get Liverpool back on the straight and narrow, and that's a view which is also held by Des Lynam.

Des, most to known here in the UK as a latter day Gary Lineker, has long since disappeared from our television screens. That is, of course, unless he is locked away hosting a game show for some random digital station. Which he probably is.

Anyway, I do digress. Des is a bit worried for Roy, who could have had a job for life at Fulham but could now have a job for six months at Liverpool. Here's a little of what he writes in the Sunday Telegraph.

Even a few weeks on from the news that he was making the move, I am still in a certain amount of discomfort, even a little gloom, about Roy Hodgson’s decision to leave the relative cosiness of his job as manager of Fulham.

Hodgson is taking on what many see as the “poisoned chalice” of trying to lift Liverpool back to something approaching former glories.

My concerns have not been about Hodgson’s ability or ambition, more about what he was letting himself in for. I don’t want to see him flounder. He’s too nice, too good a man. I keep thinking what happened to him at Blackburn.

I have watched Fulham over the past few seasons and taken delight as they beat Liverpool and Manchester United and played Arsenal off the park, only to be outdone by a wonder goal from Van Persie.

I marvelled at their progress to the Europa Cup final, thrilling to the victory against all the odds over Juventus along the way; and they achieved it playing smart, possession football, each player secure in his place and position and role within the team. Those who had been considered past their best when joining the club, like Murphy, Zamora and Duff, excelled.

This little team, in Premier League terms, shone out like a beacon for what good management skills and coaching could achieve.

What might Hodgson have done for England, who looked like a group of strangers at the World Cup? I could have understood him taking on the England role, a possibility had the FA not ludicrously signed Capello to two more years, for £12 million, before his flop.

But why did Hodgson have to leave those civilised Fulham fans in the lurch and break so many hearts in the process, to go to a club seemingly with huge financial problems and up for sale by the American owners?

He wasn’t walking into the comfort zone of Liverpool past, with that nice John Smith at the helm and all that pools money to back them up. He was going to a club in disarray, on and off the pitch.