I've just seen Carragher, Benitez &Gerrard

[GrandOldTeam]

hes quite cute tbf.

You think?

It looks like me of a morning.

 

[Bainsey]

You think?

It looks like me of a morning.

Im liking the hair do.

 

[steevie]

Is'nt that Howard Kendall????

 

[Welton Toffee]

Get some rest eh Dan lad?

 

[NeoNaoNeo]

I thought it was gonna be a joke to do with their title aspirations being dead

But no, you had to go and ruin it.

 

[Gazdalf]

meh, I can top that with lameness.


Q: How many alzheimers sufferers does it take to change a lightbulb?




A: To get to the other side.

 

[ToffeeDan]

Just been talking past Anfield cemetery. I looked over the wall and there was Benitez, Sammy Lee, Gerrard and Carragher, wandering around aimlessly carrying a coffin between them. Intrigued, I shouted "whats wrong lads?" - to which Benitez replied "somehow, between us... we've lost the plot"

Are you sure they weren't burying the last remnants of their season?

In other news:

Rafael losing the plot part 300
Article in the Guardian yesterday
Lawrence Donegan: Maybe Sven-Goran Eriksson was normal and the rest of us are odd | Sport | The Guardian

Humiliating tactics hurt Benítez as much as Keane
Asking for humanity in professional football is like searching for humility in the collected speeches of **** Cheney. It is a pointless exercise. Humanity does not make goal-line clearances, run box to box or knock in 20 goals a season.

That much is understood, but what is not understood - or indeed easy to forgive - is Rafael Benítez's treatment of Robbie Keane, which has long ceased to be bemusing and now veers towards the inhumane.

The Irishman was restored to the Liverpool squad for last night's match against Wigan Athletic but only with the proviso that he had better show his worth soon if he wanted to stay at Anfield. "Hopefully he will be a key player for us and score the winning goal in the last game of the season to win trophies," Benítez said when asked whether Keane was for sale.

Leaving aside the cowardice of this answer (if you have something to say, just go ahead and say it) there is also the question of whose idea it was to spend £20m on the forward in the first place. Those following the Anfield saga in recent weeks will know this is a contentious subject but commonsense suggests that, at the very least, Benítez must have given his approval for the signing of Keane.

That being the case, he is hardly justified in behaving as if it was an out-of-body experience over which he had no control. Yet he persists with this implication at immense cost to the club and, more importantly, to the self-esteem of the player.

The only consolation in all of this is that Benítez has damaged himself as much as he has damaged Keane. Once viewed as an enigmatic genius, he has revealed himself in recent weeks to be an emotional pygmy, a man unworthy of being in charge of a great club like Liverpoo(l).

Pt 2:
Premier League: Richard Williams questions whether Rafael BenÃ*tez has what it takes to lead Liverpool to a long-awaited title | Sport | The Guardian

Two points is not much of a gap but, as far as Liverpool are concerned, it might as well be an ocean

Pt 3:
Premier League: Rob Smyth questions why Liverpool's Rafael BenÃ*tez substituted Steven Gerrard against Wigan | Sport | guardian.co.uk

Benítez is now in very real danger of making a dogmatic breakfast of Liverpool's title challenge.

Pt 4:
Wigan Match Report:
Premier League: Wigan Athletic 1-1 Liverpool | Football | The Guardian

"We were in control in the first half but the second half was crazy," Benítez said, hinting that more protection from the referee was required but refusing to ­elaborate. "I am disappointed we didn't kill the game when we had control, because there is nothing anyone can do when it gets crazy. The last three games have had something in common that I don't like." Benítez is in a hole and needs to stop digging. Wigan, like Everton, were not unduly physical, the referee had a decent game and there was no doubt about the penalty.

If only the footballing gods would look kindly on us - for this once - next Wednesday - we would (for a while) forgive them all the Clive Thomases, Clattenbergs, Polls - to see us stuff them out of sight (which on the 2 teams relative form we ought to dare to believe) and see The [Poor language removed]'s season fall apart would be just sublime - I'm not sure that I would even care right now about the rest of an FA Cup run... they deserve a good stuffing, we deserve our day in the sun and it's about f**king time we shoved it right up his fat Spanish arse!!!

 

[Cahill's Metatarsal]

I'll be honest, that was awful

Did you used to be a Kipperette?

 

[bobbyrob]

Benetez will dig his own grave

 

[coyney]

For some reason, the ladies always love that joke...

I could suggest its to do with the female brain but would not dare