New Addition - I wrote this to Sky Sports. It'll fall on deaf ears, but thought I'd share it on RAWK and seeing as FS 'laugh at the media' thread was closed, thought it best I write it in my own!Sky Sports - a fucking embarrassment. You enrich all that has become wrong with football. The media witch hunt for Rafa, is beyond pale. The interviewer, who relentlessly chased an answer from Rafa, with regards to 'Rafas' view of the penalty? Did Andy Burton not realise that Rafa was saying his view was as the '27,000' of those who saw it was a penalty. Was Andy Burton born in an asylum in Donchaster as a retarded, handicapped monkey? Is his father, 'Richard-hairy-hands-Keys'? Is Andy Gray their reverend? Is Jamie Redknapp the choir boy? Is Rupert Murdoch really Judas? Is Rafa really God?
I find it unbelievable that Andy-Martin-Tyler's-HandjobRightMan-Gray, can spout his pathetic nuisance on sky sports with clear bias against Liverpool. An Evertonian, who grew up fantasising of liverpool's downfall. Who was never good enough for the red of liverpool and so his hunger and envy for the collapse of an empire grew. The man, prides himself, in lying to himself, lying to the public and has no shame in believing his lies.
Sly Sports, I don't expect any of you to understand this rant, all you understand is that £ = power and with your Furher-esque domination of complete factionalism, you have capitulated football into a donkey's penis.
You now face a man, who unlike Mr Ferguson, has true character, isn't afraid to face the facts, isn't afraid to show your pathetic journalistic writings, that you lot, are a complete pile of donkey's faeces.
Rafa will succeed over you lot. When he does, will Richard Keys shave his hands? Will Andy Gray ever do a broadcast sober? Will Jamie pay his daddies' tax returns? Will Andy Burton finally tell his mother on transfer deadline day, not to disturb him with irrelevant phone calls when on national television?
Show Rafa the respect he deserves.
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I've been losing a sense of understanding and compassion with the game, not so much because of the results of our club this season, but more with what football has become and those who represent it.
We live in a society where the tabloids are the Holy Book and Sky Sports the 'Church', (as majority now spend their Sundays' with that monopoly power giant). How the likes of the hairy-handed halfwit, Martin Tyler's Monkey, Paul Merson and Le Tisseur hold a position of power to 'preach' such twisted, biased, blinded, deceitful, disgusting, unfounded 'beliefs' belittling a man who topped Real Madrid and Barcelona, at a time when no other man would be capable of getting 'sacred wine' for his men.
Rafael Benitez: An educated, astute fellow, who underlines the importance of hard work, focus, togetherness, belief and confidence; skills applicable in every dimension of life, is still undermined and belittled by people with not even a tenth of his knowledge and understanding.
We live in a time where games such as Football Manager, give people the belief that they have an ounce of tactical insight. Even though the manager thinks endlessly about possibilities for the club to progress, now and in the future; the misguided and disillusioned feel a simple 4-4-2 formation, with Gerrard partnering Masch in the middle is the solution for majority of our problems, and then with Villa or Aguero being signed in the future to partner Torres upfront. Its not the latter part of that ideology that has me questioning the persons IQ in relation to the former President of the United States, but the theories instilled by Rafa into his "machine": balance, playing to their strengths, specialisation of roles, are completely disregarded by many because of a computer game depicting the nature of our managers' work, likened to the manner by which a scientist would approach a piece of art: completely fucking upside-down.
Common sense, the greatest tool given by God to man, but also greatly overlooked by the football follower. 'Why not play Aquilani? Why is Rafa so stubborn and insists on not playing Aquilani?'. Ask yourself, wee old fickle fan full of initiative, if Rafa deemed it best for the club and player for Aquilani to play, he surely would?! Up until this point, who do you think has suffered the most that Aquilani has not been available? -Rafa. There is a saying, ‘To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones’, this is very fitting for the manner in which Rafa captured our 5th European Cup Title, mainly with a squad he had inherited, he did it with pride, grace and dignity.
One of Rafa's greatest testaments in his progression of the club as a 'family unit', an ideology upon the greatness this club was founded, is demonstrated with Steven Gerrard. A player who when Rafa started coaching had several great qualities of a son that was not quite yet mature enough to be a man. But under the guidance of Rafa, we have seen Gerrard mature as a man, adding extra dimensions to his play and handling the extra responsibility. Gerrard, thanks to Rafa has grown to be one of the greatest footballers in the World and will be playing his 500th game for Liverpool FC today, a born and bred Liverpool fan, like you and I, he's witnessed the change in the game he grew up loving. Its a possibility that one of the greatest players of all time, could finish his career not having won the league; But sometimes in life, there isn't a title to show a man's greatness, as Sir Bob Paisley once commented after his Liverpool side finished second in the league: “…when you count second place as failure, then standards are becoming fantastically high. We never celebrate second place here."
When Benitez signed his new contract, he likened the club and city to a family, the very traditions our club has grown, is inherited within a man from Madrid. At a time when football is in its dark era, we have a man, a father, leading the club through a storm, with great integrity and love for his family – his club and city.
