I've already stated that he wasn't a popular choice. It was never personal though. Well certainly not at the start anyway. But I never went to Anfield for his first game in charge ready to bury the guy. His short Liverpool career was a double-edged sword of failure from the start. On the pitch we were shite. Off it, Hodgson's press conferences were staggering in the sense that if he could say the wrong thing, he invariably did. He got off to a flyer when he was first appointed manager by saying he hoped his good friend Sir Alex wouldn't hold it against him for taking the Liverpool job. Virtually apologising to the manager of our most hated rivals was never going to endear him to anyone. But we still cut him some slack in the hope he could prove us wrong, & not turn out to be the incompetent chancer that he obviously is.
Compare that to Chelsea fans, who have seen a manager sacked when it's quite plain to everyone that he was out of his depth at Stamford Bridge. Yet their antipathy towards Benitez could threaten what could be a very promising season. & it's not as though there's an abundance of top managers waiting for Roman to call is there ?