If true I found the page where he was talking about impact the state of the club had on Rafa's health quite upsetting.
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I honestly feel a great number of fans let him down, big time. Those Reds who hate him, and there are some on here and one in particular, won't give a **** about letting him down but this guy fought tooth and nail for us.The media smelt blood and intensified the attacks on Benitez, pulling apart his transfer dealings and questioning his mental health. When he offered a ‘guarantee’ of a top four finish, obituaries were being written and filed away for the following May.
Rafa didn’t look great. He was white and gaunt through too much worry and too little sleep, he picked up infections and coughs and kept coming out in cold sweats. When friends told him how awful he looked, he’d invent stories about his daughters waking him up.
The truth was Liverpool’s decline was eating him up and as a result he would stay up all night devising ways of outflanking his growing army of enemies. He was playing Stratego again, but with far more at stake.
The pressure affected his wife Montse too. She loved living in their Caldy home on Wirral, and had no desire to move back to Spain, or anywhere else for that matter.
She would break down in tears at parties when asked about her future. She would sit in the directors’ box at games rubbing rosary beads between her fingers, praying throughout the final half-hour of a game for victory. All so the pressure would be eased on her husband.
Apart from hard-core fans who still idolised him for the European glory he had brought to the club, and who saw him as the most potent anti-Hicks and Gillett symbol, Benitez was now dangerously short of allies.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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Mrs Benitez is a classy lady.We come not to play.Comment
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Brian Reade will be on talksport this afternoon to discuss the book
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Originally posted by Mattshark View Post
I really don't understand how any of our fans can hate him.
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Weak willed, Wank or do they have a masterplan?
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Because they watched Sky Sports and lapped up all the misinformation fed to them.Originally posted by Mattshark View Post
I really don't understand how any of our fans can hate him.If we are all only happy when we are really winning in the end, when your race finishes, what life would that be?Comment
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I know of none who hate him but many (including me) who thought (at the time) it was time for him to move on and try something new. (Hindsight is a wonderful thing)Last edited by kev776; 03-05-11, 01:40 PM.Those that hid Anne Frank were breaking the law.
Those that killed her, were following the law.Comment
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I know several Reds who can't stand him.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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Hmmmm, with some thought you may be right, there are 1 or 2 here that say they hate him, mostly guys who didn't actually follow to closely what actualy happened in his last 12 months.Originally posted by Shaggy View PostThose that hid Anne Frank were breaking the law.
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[QUOTE=Shaggy;1960526]Yep.
I honestly feel a great number of fans let him down, big time. Those Reds who hate him, and there are some on here and one in particular, won't give a **** about letting him down but this guy fought tooth and nail for us.[/QUOTE]
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I think many got frustrated and, like Gerrard, failed, for whatever reason, to see the bigger picture. Then there was the mantra that the manager takes the blame when things go wrong and seventh wasn't good enough for LFC etc. so he had to go. They were wrong, I feel, but not malicious. At least, many weren't, they were just misguided.Originally posted by kev776 View Post
Of course not all of us needed hindsight.
Anyone who hated him though is simply a very poor judge of character, or worse.Last edited by Neil Young; 03-05-11, 01:50 PM..
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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