Every fan of every club believes the media is against them, and most of the time as a fan you learn to just fucking ignore the drivel they write. We never got the credit for dominating European Football from the late Seventies onward in the English media, I wasn't that arsed as it never damaged the club and to be honest I liked the fact that they always thought the party was over and we kept on steamrollering all their pretenders to our throne.
But this is different, whether you think Benitez is great or shite, it's becoming obvious there is an agenda against him by sections of the media, It's almost like the campaigns they run against England managers trying to ridicule his every decision and making out he's a figure of fun who's decisions are so bad he shouldn't be taking seriously.
This is against the background of all the ownership troubles, when the club is fianancially unstable and the last thing we need as a club is the media telling us what is wrong with us because the likes of the Mersons, the Charlie Nicholas's and the Collymores would piss themselves laughing if we imploded. It's unfortunate when ex players and heroes like souness and whelan also feel the need to go along with this agenda. Maybe they have their own agenda, Whelan's Hicks's lads mate and Souness could do with distracting people from his appalling managerial record for Liverpool.
Look at all the ex-managers bar Souness, what do you hear, fuck all, dignified silence. Phil Thompson at the heart of Sky manages never to be part of putting the boot in. Ex Man U players know the score, if it's good enough for them it's good enough for us.
Souness's comments weren't the worst I've heard him come out with but putting Klinsmann on the programme and you don't have to be a genius to work out what's going on. If his comments weren't that bad, Benitez reply's hardly excessive when Sky are parading his potential sucsessor commenting on his team's performance. Classy that. I always liked Klinnsman but commenting on liverpool, a job no self-respecting person should take after what's gone on with him and Gillette, Sky never picked him for his football analysis, the sneaky, backstabbing blert.
Maybe Benitez should keep quiet but just imagine what Alex Fergueson's reaction would be if Sky showed a tenth of the disrespect they show to our manager, never mind that old whisky soak, imagine they did it to Harry or Fat Sam or Brucey or Curbs, never mind a classy sarcastic comeback, they'd throw their toys right out of the pram and they'd be right to do so. I don't think Rafa's perfect, he makes mistakes, one I can't fathom is why he's so nice to the Bastards. Shankly, Paisley or Dalglish would of told them to do one, in no uncertain terms a long time ago. Rafa's a freehit to these slimey media whores.
