Ronnie Whelan

[barnes10]

All our ex-players just need to take a look and follow the example of the great Alan Hansen in how to strike the right balance as an ex-Liverpool legend turned tv pundit.

this is my point. if ex players won't give a bit of balance to their so called expert punditry then whats their agenda? why would you not treat liverpool fairly and give the club (manager and players) a fair crack of the whip?

who wouldnt give us a fair crack? this is why poeple call him a **** and a manc. its because they're the types who wont give us a fair shot and give us credit where its due.

if he knows how top teams are made top (note he's observed it, not put it in place himself) then surely he has the IQ to see that Rafa is doing a great job and he's repairing the demise caused by others on what is relatively (to man u and chelsea) a very tight budget.

His lack of fairness to rafa shows he's a bitter individual and throwing mud at the club. why on earth is he doing that? does that bitterness not devalue his stature?

[liverpoolrat]

this is my point. if ex players won't give a bit of balance to their so called expert punditry then whats their agenda? why would you not treat liverpool fairly and give the club (manager and players) a fair crack of the whip?

who wouldnt give us a fair crack? this is why poeple call him a **** and a manc. its because they're the types who wont give us a fair shot and give us credit where its due.

if he knows how top teams are made top (note he's observed it, not put it in place himself) then surely he has the IQ to see that Rafa is doing a great job and he's repairing the demise caused by others on what is relatively (to man u and chelsea) a very tight budget.

His lack of fairness to rafa shows he's a bitter individual and throwing mud at the club. why on earth is he doing that? does that bitterness not devalue his stature?

maybe like most football followers in England, he just doesn't think Benitez will win us a league? he really might not have an agenda, but genuinely doesn't think Benitez will deliver what he has been employed to do

[Neil Young]

I don't care what he thinks.

[barnes10]

maybe like most football followers in England, he just doesn't think Benitez will win us a league? he really might not have an agenda, but genuinely doesn't think Benitez will deliver what he has been employed to do

perhaps. bit of respect wouldnt be a bad thing tho. whatever he thinks, rafa has taken the club forward and achieved a lot in the 5 years he's been here. if he can't recognise and find some positives in that then thats up to him isnt it. i'd expect him to tho.

[Redspin]

Ronnie Whelan believes Rafa Benitez will join Graeme Souness, Roy Evans and Gerard Houllier as Premier League title flops.

The Ireland legend said: "I was on the last Liverpool team that won the title 19 years ago and we couldn't have imagined then it would be the last one for so long.

People ask why, but the only reason you don't win the league is because you haven't got the players that are good enough to win the title.

"Over the years with Graeme Souness and Gerard Houllier, they haven't bought players who are good enough to win the league and that is the be-all and end-all.

"Are they there now? No."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...5875-21273042/

Like yourself he's a scum fan so nothing new in any of this

[Joe King]

Like yourself he's a scum fan so nothing new in any of this

I don't know whats worse? Being called a cunt or a manc.

[Redspin]

Exactly right there, that's the entire point, especially the bit in bold. I'm 100% sure that if saying Liverpool will win the league would make it come true then Whelan would say it.

But this is not the case, and as Whelans random views are broadcast in Ireland I would suggest that it's unlikely many LFC players will ever here or read of them.

He is different to Kenny Dalglish in that everybody listens to what Kenny says. Everyone at the club will know what he's saying, and Kenny will regularly come across present day players of Liverpool. I would therefore say that Dalglish needs in some respects to "toe the party line". Whelan on the other hand can get away with it.

Anyhow, as you say - he worked his bollocks of for this club and the clubs success he brought is the reason many on here will support the club. So as long as his opinion is purely football related then I wouldn't see a reason as to why he would never get anthing less than a fantastic reception when he goes back to Anfield.

He's not 100% like John Aldridge, but it don't make him a Manc.

Actually he's a self-confessed scum fan. I've seen him myself mentioning it on TV

[Redspin]

I don't know whats worse? Being called a cunt or a manc.

They're not mutually-exclusive terms. They go together like liver and bacon, fish and chips, Morecambe and Wise

[Warren]

I don't know whats worse? Being called a cunt or a manc.

Well how does it normally make you feel?

[Joe King]

Well how does it normally make you feel?

I'm quite glad people on the internet will go out of their way, quote me and call me a cunt. I get a warm fuzzy feeling.

[Warren]

I get a warm fuzzy feeling.

[Scratch]

I'm quite glad people on the internet will go out of their way, quote me and call me a cunt. I get a warm fuzzy feeling.

Cunt

[lucas]

http://www.herald.ie/sport/no-place-to-hide-3061130.html

This bloke just loves laying into Liverpool managers.

"it's not like it was in my day, blah, blah". Shut the **** up. You're a failed manager and **** pundit. I'm ashamed to say that he was once captain of our great club. Prick!

[G]

Whelans a prick no doubt about it.

I fail to see the problem with anything he's said in that though.

[lucas]

It's not just that. He was slating Benitez for years before he left. Benitez got closer to winning the league than any other manager over the last 20 years.

He should just keep his mouth shut. He hasn't a ****ing clue.