Jeez The RS love in with Rafael is hilarious - this is a man who has managed to alienate his playing staff (- his golden boy Gerrard once, if not twice), Torres (so rumour has it), Alonso (and then sold him a year later), Babbel (this year's Alonso) - sacked his entire backroom staff for Spanish nobodies like Pellegrino (a useless player by all accounts), brought in Sammy Lee - a roaring success at Bolton. They hail him as a genius yet he managed to blow the title last year after The Fergie Rant.
He has been intent on bringing back Gerrard and Torres when both are palpably unfit. He finaigled the board into giving him complete control of all matters - when he cant even manage to be dignified to his fellow managers and in his comments about rival clubs, referees, owners and so on.
Sure they are up for the odd game - like Derby matches and Man U games - but the results in the past 9 months have been abysmal - not to mention the team selection and the performances. The fans seem keen to blame the players (Kuyt for one), the owners - in fact almost anyone except the manager and his awful transfer record (bar Torres and Reina, both of whom were established top-class players whom almost anyone could have identified as suitable and excellent purchases). The Aquilani saga is proof positive that he either doesn't have a clue or he's hell bent on getting his own back for some perceived injustice. It's not anti RS bias to suggest that the likes of Josemi and Voronin are just dreadful players, that Keane was either a total misfit in that side (unlikely) or was misused (like Gerrard out on the right midfield at one time). Bellamy, Crouch and other decent or better players all wanted out - you have to ask yourself why, when playing for an apparently top side they would want to go to West Ham and Portsmouth respectively, why Owen wouldn't come back...
And all through this the blinkered RS fans just can't see what everyone else sees.. Any dissenting voice is shouted down as "not being the Liverpool way".
We might well have a dig at Moyes for his persistent use of the likes of Tony Hibbert - some of his tactical decisions, some of his substitution methods but you know what you get - a man who doesn't blame the situation on some perceived injury crisis (Rafael), some bad referee (Rafael), someone, anyone, anything except himself!!