Kenny Dalglish is leading English football into anarchy

CONTROVERSIAL ... Kenny Dalglish

DO Liverpool want to lead the game into anarchy?

It certainly looks like it by the way they are behaving.

Furious that Luis Suarez has been given an eight-game ban and a £40,000 fine for racially abusing Patrice Evra, manager Kenny Dalglish swung into action to mastermind the backlash.

A statement slammed the FA and Dalglish and his squad wore T-shirts in tribute to Suarez at Wigan on Wednesday night.

Comments by Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas about supporting John Terry whatever the outcome of his court case, in which he is charged with racially abusing Anton Ferdinand, are not clever either.

But imagine the reaction around the country if the Chelsea squad had all run out at White Hart Lane last night wearing Terry T-shirts.

It is irrelevant that Terry's case is going to court, the basic accusation against him is the same.

What an outcry there would be, too, if Alex Ferguson and his Manchester United stars began wearing tops with Evra on the back.

We are told that all the Liverpool players willingly agreed to warm up in the Suarez shirts.

Yet even if any of them had had doubts, they probably would have had little choice but to toe the party line.

Dalglish has publicly announced they are all standing together behind the Uruguayan striker, so there can be no waverers.

And at no point is there any acknowledgement from Anfield that Suarez might have been advised not to utter a term which could have been interpreted as racist.

Liverpool, led by Dalglish, are putting two fingers up to authority and blatantly showing they have no respect for the domestic game's rulers.

The Kop fans, who worship the Scot, follow the messiah and direct their venom at Evra, Manchester United and FA officials.

Some of the abuse targeting FA employees would land the perpetrators in court if the police were brought in.

And it is all stoking up the next meeting between United and Liverpool in February to incendiary levels.

You can bet your life, if it all goes off there, it will be the FA who get the blame.

It is understandable that Dalglish supports his player. But the manner in which he is going about it is neither subtle nor admirable.

Someone at Liverpool needs to put an arm round the Scot's shoulder and advise him to take a step back.

The League Managers Association, which usually has plenty to say for itself, should also have a word with Dalglish — one of their high-profile members — and tell him he needs to rein it in.

Or is everyone too scared to challenge King Kenny?

Bent a me-man
HOW depressing that we might have to rely on Darren Bent to get England through to the knockout stages of Euro 2012.

Wayne Rooney is available for the final group game against Ukraine but, before that, Bent will probably have to get the job done against France and Sweden.

But you do wonder if Bent will give a stuff whether England qualify.

Because for Bent the most important thing about the word team is that it contains the letters M and E.

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