Gaffers and gaffes: Liverpool must ship out Gillett and Hicks

We live in a world full of euphemisms. In the diplomatic arena, the "full and frank discussions" between Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Bush indicate that below the veneer of friendship they were giving each other the Fergie-style hairdryer treatment.

In this world of bubbling discontent, stiff upper lips and reading between the lines, we come to the  euphemistically dubbed "unworkable situation" at Anfield - with bickering George Gillett and Tom Hicks looking more and more like Britney and K Fed with each passing day.

Rumours among the press have swirled that when the Americans took over they called the Anfield side the "Liverpool Reds" - highlighting the naivety and lack of awareness of Liverpool's voluminous history, and also missing the fact that English teams don't sport US-style team names like their American counterparts.

This, however, was just the tip of the iceberg. BBC commentator Alan Green recently revealed that relatives of the co-chairmen were talking about gladly washing their hands of the club back around Christmas time.

Add to that the growing list of bumbling gaffes in their handling of Rafa Benitez and his January transfer targets, which at once betrayed a total lack of understanding for how much time is needed to plan signings and simultaneously managing to look like beady-eyed backstabbers into the bargain.

That Tom Hicks Jr confidently waltzed into a local Liverpool pub after the 3-2 Middlesbrough victory "for a chat" - and ended up retreating under a volley of sputum and beer, must have left his ego phlegm flecked and his confidence damaged. And who knows what daddy Hicks said when he found out.

With Gillett now claiming he has been receiving death threats, the end of the road is surely close. The two co-chairmen are deigning to turn up for their first Liverpool game since December 16 but will demand to sit apart at the Emirates. The fact that the two Americans cannot even sit in proximity to each other is worrying.

Liverpool have had a glorious run of form, culminating in the sound beating of Everton at Anfield, one which could have turned into a romp had the post been kinder and the ball-deflecting backsides of Everton defenders been smaller.

Everton showed us exactly what their "good football" consisted of - a handful of passes to feet. The fact that Liverpool played the kind of football that the Toffees can only dream of, made victory even more gorgeous. The trio of Arsenal games that await Liverpool will go some way to deciding if Liverpool can help out Hicks's claim, when he took over at Liverpool, that silverware was the priority.

The jigsaw is falling into place on the field, but if Liverpool want to progress they need to start at the top by shipping out Hicks and Gillett. And they shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking that DIC are the knights in shining armour - they could be just as bad!