Allardyce bitching about Rafa AGAIN

[Aza]

Agreed, quality!

I want that cartoon on a t-shirt

[DannyMan2006]

I want that cartoon on a t-shirt

[Shanks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmP6PpWNwOE

RAFA.

[Craig_H]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmP6PpWNwOE

Love that clip.

[jakle]

I have little doubt that back in the sheds fergie in a drunken state would have beaten up the balloon popper in a flurry of thrown boots and whiskey bottles.

[Stimpy]

Can one of the Mods remove this link or re-host it somewhere, we shouldn't have anything from that **** rag on here let alone just after the 20th Anniversary of Hillsborough

Yeah, sorry my bad, knicked it off another thread and never checked the source link

Mods please delete,

Ta

[MrMichael]

Anyone need a new avatar?

[Shaggy]

'Absolute contempt'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1171608/Pure-contempt-Its-set-says-arrogant-Benitez-crafty-Sir-Alex-stokes-fire.html?ITO=1490

Pure contempt: It's a set-up, says 'arrogant' Benitez as crafty Sir Alex stokes the fire

By IAN LADYMAN and JOHN EDWARDS
Last updated at 11:22 PM on 17th April 2009

Sir Alex Ferguson last night declared open war on Rafael Benitez with a bizarre and apparently premeditated attack on the Liverpool manager.

Ferguson’s salvo came as his Manchester United team — for whom Wayne Rooney is a major doubt with a foot injury — prepare to take on Everton in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley tomorrow. The Scot lashed out at Benitez for calling Everton a small club and for a gesture the Liverpool coach allegedly made to Blackburn Rovers manager Sam Allardyce last weekend.

Ferguson said: ‘There’s one thing — along with his arrogance that he showed — that you can’t forgive, and that is his contempt for Sam Allardyce when Liverpool scored their second goal. Did you see it? It was absolute contempt. He went like that (gestures with his arms) as if to say “game finished”. I don’t think Sam Allardyce deserved that.

'Absolute contempt'

Act of war? Rafa Benitez crosses his hands after Fernando Torres scored Liverpool's second goal against Blackburn


‘To get that kind of contempt, I don’t think any other Liverpool manager would ever have done that. But he is beyond the pale. I think you should respect a manager. I don’t think you’d ever get me doing something like that. You have to have humility.

‘I don’t know what he does in his spare time but he’s certainly not using it in the right way. He has played himself into a powerful position at Liverpool. He wants control of all the transfers, why I don’t know, but that’s the last thing I’d want. Crikey.

‘And irrespective of what Rafael Benitez says, Everton are a big club. He called them a small club, which points to his arrogance.’

Asked yesterday if Allardyce had mentioned the gesture to him during the week, Ferguson claimed that he had seen it on Match of the Day.

Benitez is understood to be baffled and amused by Ferguson’s latest rant. The Liverpool manager is adamant the gesture was a message to his players and not to Allardyce.

Xabi Alonso had ignored Benitez’s instructions over the free-kick which led to a goal for Fernando Torres.

Alonso whipped it in from the left, contrary to shouts from the bench, and when Torres headed home, Benitez grinned sheepishly and waved his arms as if to say: ‘No more advice from me — what do I know?’ The TV footage appears inconclusive, and Benitez’s gesture, delivered with a smile on his face, is ambiguous.

There was no evidence to suggest it was even aimed at Allardyce.

A source close to Benitez said: ‘Rafa has laughed off what is clearly a co-ordinated attack on him.’

Interestingly, an hour or so before Ferguson’s comments, his friend Allardyce had also laid into Benitez about the incident.

Allardyce said: ‘What he did was disrespectful and quite humiliating. He made a gesture that was pretty dismissive to me and Blackburn Rovers as a whole.

‘He opened out his arms and then waved them as if to say that was it.

‘It was a gesture that said to me you are finished, done. He didn’t do it directly at me but it was more or less in my direction.

‘I waited for a word with Rafa Benitez in his room afterwards but, as usual, he didn’t turn up.’

Ferguson suggested he will field a slightly weakened team against Everton — and it may be weaker still if the results of yesterday’s scan on Rooney’s foot cause concern.

However, the recently reunited defensive partnership of Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand is expected to stay together.

[Craig_H]

I hope rooney's foot has fallen off. And i hope Vidic and ferdinand are too busy bumming each other to play.

[Fivex]

I hope rooney's foot has fallen off. And i hope Vidic and ferdinand are too busy bumming each other to play.

You have a wild and slightly concerning imagination mate

[ukfootballfan101]

I hope Rafa has laughed this off and doesn't spend any time thinking about it, he should be in the middle of planning our demolition of Arsenal next week BUT could he make a formal complaint to the LMA/FA about this? I'm not sure if it would be the best way to react but if allogations of bullying were made and they had to be investigated it would switch all the attention back on to them two c*nts.

[Ben_Itez]

Anyone need a new avatar?

I'll have it if nobody minds?

Ta

[kingfunk]

IMO rafa should not say a word, what he should do is G-up our players to win every remaining game of the season, and if that is enough to win the league, the day after we lift the trophy he should sit in the sun with a glass of fine wine in front of the SSN cameras and dedicate the No 19 to fergie. I think the cunt would drop dead.

[Craig_H]

You have a wild and slightly concerning imagination mate

I was hoping it - not imagining it

[Joey Jones]

That's the rest of fat sam's 'rant'.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article6113083.ece

"The feeling was that he had written us off. It was open arms and then a crossover of the arms as if to suggest that was it. I admit it was a hard game, a difficult game for us, and we were well beaten by an outstanding Liverpool side.

"But in terms of respect, you don't expect those sort of things to happen in a game of football. I was very, very upset by it. The game is hard enough as it is without a fellow manager doing what seemed to be an undermining gesture.

"I then waited to have a word with him after the game in his room, but as usual and unfortunately, he didn't turn up.

"Not explaining himself by not turning up in his office really shows what he is like. The only people I saw were Sammy Lee and a few of the staff. That was just as disappointing as the gesture, and it typifies the man."

There has never been any love lost between the two men in the past, with Allardyce's outburst merely serving to add fuel to the fire. Allardyce has made no attempt to contact Benitez this week to try and clarify the matter, insisting: "Why should I?

"If he can't come into his own room and have a drink with his fellow manager, why would I want to pick up the phone and speak to him? It's in the past now and I'll move on, but I just want to make everybody aware of what I consider to be a lack of respect for me, the Blackburn Rovers players and the football club as a whole."

A grown man being (very, very) upset by that I thought he was suppose to be a hard man?!

If I was a Rovers fan I'd be pissed off with him for not concentrating on his own teams affairs. They are in a relagation scrap and he's pissing about with something like this.