Archive for February, 2009

Home Form Betrays Our One-Dimensionality

Stoke 0-0 Fulham 0-0 West Ham 0-0 Hull City 2-2 Everton 1-1 Man City 1-1 The results above are the collective low-points of our season and the main reason for the petering out of our once-so-exciting title challenge. In thinking about why we’ve struggled so much through these games, it became clear to me that [...]

Letting Agger contract drag on is criminal

One of Benitez’s recent complaints about the administrative structure at Liverpool concerned the club’s comatose approach to both new signings and new contracts. It is well publicised that we missed out on players such as Dani Alves and Simao due to Rick Parry’s languid movements in the transfer market, but that’s all past now. What [...]

Benitez is right to dismiss the press

If you were on £50k a week and had the credentials of Rafael Benitez, it would be hard to find a reason to read the British newspapers other than to defend yourself against its vicious hunter-mentality attacks on your character. Benitez has admitted in the past that when he watches tapes of Liverpool games, he [...]

In the mess of the Keane situation, Rafa must take some blame

“I was doing everything I could possible to play football and do well for the team. If I’d been a bad egg I could understand but I never had one bad word to say about anybody there. I never had a problem with the manager. I was never late for training. I came in every [...]