Serious B********

[CHRed]

Spoke with a friend of mine who is a chief steward at the Emirates. He said Rafa gave his team a serious going over in the dressing room after the game. The dressing room was locked for over an hour. Then he went for a drink in AW office........

[fred]

Rafa Benitez, mild mannered "let's focus on the next game" gentle-manager for the media, team-b******ing hair dryer impersonator behind closed doors...

[Cooldude]

He has always had a mongrel streak on him, Rafa. When we don't play well you should look at his face at the dugout, it looks like he wants to punch someone

[downunder]

Spoke with a friend of mine who is a chief steward at the Emirates. He said Rafa gave his team a serious going over in the dressing room after the game. The dressing room was locked for over an hour. Then he went for a drink in AW office........

 

Surely the new 'Library' would have decent soundproofing. Or maybe they were all on here reading what we had to say?

[ManxRed]

There was a close up of him in the dugout near the end and he was writing in the notebook, I reckoned it was the names of who he was going to sell in January and that it was probably giving him writers cramp.

[Cobs]

should have tried it at half-time, Rafa.

[DanielS]

should have tried it at half-time, Rafa.

 

I doubt AW's office would have been open for drinking then.

[Billy Dane]

In the interview after we lose he's usually stony faced, with a look that says , "hurry up and finish cos I want to go and punch someone's lights out, the useless feckers"

[Cobs]

I doubt AW's office would have been open for drinking then.

he should bring a hip-flask then

[Coyler]

should have tried it at half-time, Rafa.

At half-time it (whatever it was ) wasn't really warranted, except perhaps in a couple of individual cases. We had just lost a woeful late goal and were looking (gormlessly) solidish up till then.

[Ronnie Whelan]

should have tried it at half-time, Rafa.

 

 

Not so sure about that. We were the better team for parts of the first half.

[Guest Kev]

I hope you are right.

 

Rafa was interviewed about 10-15 mins after the game on Sky though.

[Bigal]

maybe the players were warming down at that time, and when they went back in. WHAMMY!

Edited November 13, 2006 by Bigal

[Paul_LFC]

Well he had to give them a right going at considering most of them are buggering off for international duty so that was the only time he could fit in a rollocking.

[Cobs]

Not so sure about that. We were the better team for parts of the first half.

well, whatever he did say at half-time it didn't work very well, did it?

[Ronnie Whelan]

well, whatever he did say at half-time it didn't work very well, did it?

 

 

We were also the better side in the opening exchanges of the second half, so it probably had some, but not a lasting effect. The two second half goals were f***ing disastrous. I had a nightmare about the Galls goal last night.

[The Hitman]

I think if I was a footie manager,I'd need minders with me to prevent the possibility of physical violence.

My training sessions after a heavy defeat would resemble something out of a Gulag.

[Coyler]

well, whatever he did say at half-time it didn't work very well, did it?

"Play like you have no heart, lads. Do not give a schidt. Lack imagination. Give up now as they'll probably win. Not you, Xabi, stop nodding you sap."

[McBain]

Whatever he said after the game at ot didn't work. Ditto Stamford Bridge, and the Reebok, and Woodison.....

 

I'm amazed he still even tries. A lesser man would probably have walked by now

[hideNseek]

Well he best not walk as it's his mess.

[sutty]

"Play like you have no heart, lads. Do not give a schidt. Lack imagination. Give up now as they'll probably win. Not you, Xabi, stop nodding you sap."

 

If he did say that then it worked perfectly