I don't think he doesn't get as much stick because their football is ease in the eye.
Here a country in which showy football is vastly more overrated than your country, teams like Barcelona are mocked when they lose with their nice football. Winning is what matters at the end of the day. Nobody talks about rotation or Rafa's sillyness after 3 games won in a row.
I think that Ciggy and other Scousers are not paranoid when they say in London they can't stand you. It's a fact already noticed by Torres or ALonso. "Torres is a Liverpool player" you'll say, but Marcelino a formerpremier player that hasn't played for Liverpool said the very same thing "In england there's a lot of cat against Liverpool". Cat in that sense means envy+hate.
While I knew Liverpool for many years I knew next to nothing about the atmosphere and press. And honestly, I think that whatever the manager Liverpool has, in London they'll always find time to write bad things about Liverpool. I'm biased a bit because I love the club, but unbiased Spaniards notice aswell that treatment Liverpool gets.