I like to think that Rafa knows his stuff and using all of this to distract attention from 'the media' away from the players, and any underperforming, onto himself. They're all full of 'Rafa's lost it' and the like but it keeps the column space away from what it would be otherwise regarding the team. It could be he has lost it, but I for one trust the man who has got us to two Champions League finals and given us a realistic title challenge for the first time in years.
We've not been in this good a position in the league a long time. With Fergie trying his usual s*** of saying he doesn't think we can last the pace this is a great move to deflect attention away from the players (and how they're going to handle being top at this stage) and on to Rafa. As much as he's a bit of a d****ead, Mourinho did it all the time at Chelsea and his players loved him for it. All of the press tomorrow will be focussed on Rafa, rather than on the players and 'how they'll handle the pressure of being top'. Rafa isn't a stupid man, i'm anticipating what sort of response we get from whiskeynose.
Gonna be ace if the BBC is as accurate as usual... "Babel made his Ajax debut in 2004 aged 17 and has scored 24 goals in 11 matches for the Dutch club."
Big Sports Bar on Baldwin St. in the Centre. Liable to be full of idiots but have loads of screens..... http://www.thesportscafe.net/locationdetail.cfm?venueID=10 Anywhere around there mate will be showing the game anyway - O'Neills, Walkabout, Edwards etc.... Walkabout has two massive screens and was meant to be great during teh Champs League final in '05. Cheers.