article_snippet.sent: My next game is against Arsenal,’ the Liverpool manager said, suggesting the Liverpool manager can at least understand a fixture list, if not the delicacy of the Liverpool manager situation or the impact of the Liverpool manager words.
article_snippet.sent: At Liverpool on Wednesday
article_snippet.sent: Rodgers and his players are coming off a sobering home loss to Manchester United, in which Sterling played poorly, and now face Arsenal in the League and Blackburn in the FA Cup — games that will go a long way to determining whether this current season is marked success or failure.
article_snippet.sent: Liverpool and Rodgers, who tends to be unemotional about these things, view this as unhelpful and unsettling.
article_snippet.sent: Liverpool’s owners will view this episode dimly.
article_snippet.sent: And so a rather unpleasant game begins and it is tempting to wonder whether Sterling will emerge from it as Sterling would wish.