KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum The fans sing for Rafa!!!!!

That's what left such a bad taste in your mouth???

many more thing IE washing the clubs dirty linen in public , the only thing i ever agreed with george gillett said "just coach and manage your team " and if benitez had done that he might have been still at anfield , even gerrard said in his book " there was no option benitez had to go" .

You seem to only remember the bad but forget the good.

That season we did the double over the scum including a 4-1 hiding at old toilet. We trashed Real madrid 4-0 to send shockwaves throughout europe. We trashed barcodes 5-1 at tyneside. Did the double over chavs in the league.

You don't appreciate rafa for those games?

yes he got a decent reception and rightly so even Roy H got a decent reception and yes he should get a good reception when we play chelsea , but at wigan sorry diont get it , should have been singing for rodgers which when they do is muted even from the kop . i love Rafa

100% disagree never heard this sort of support for houllier when he was geting grief at villa and i have never heard that sort of support for liverpool present manager , especially when liverpool were winning 4-0 away from home , as i said earlier SING FOR LIVERPOOL F.C. not
chelsea and there manager , it has nothing to do with liverpool what chelsea or there manager does or doesnt do , the chanti ng was even louder than JFT 96 which is not right , look not one person forced benitez to go to chelsea , he is getting very well paid for it , and it has nothing what so ever with LFC .

FFS - he's a fan and fully entitled to his opinion that the Rafa song was an act of poor judgement.

He's hardly the only Liverpool fan to cringe when the song rang out. The blind allegiance to a manager who is a mere shadow of his former self - to some - is annoying. Rafa refused to rebuild his career at a decent club after the Inter debacle - and he went into the Chelsea job blinded by his own ego, which has been his undoing for years now. Any logical person (i.e. not willfully blinded by misplaced and counterproductive nostalgia) could see that Rafa's tenure at Chelsea would only end one way - it was doomed doomed doomed!

Yes, Liverpool fans are free to voice their support for an old (and I would add 'decaying') manager - but other fans are equally free to find it distasteful. Rafa is just one of many old heroes - many of whom are never even whispered about by the kop anymore. We are enduring a long Rafa hangover, not just one relating to his success, but to his many failures and the final state in which he left the club.
The temptation to get a dig in at Chelsea is obviously too great to resist - but I wish our fans were a bit more even in their attitude of reverence.

You say it has nothing to do with Liverpool what Chelsea or their manager does or doesn't do.

If that's the case then why did you dedicate an entire thread to the Chelsea Corinthians World Club Championship match.

Your hypocrisy is breath taking Faz.

There you go, so we do sing for our old gaffers who are in trouble. You used "nobody sang for Houillier" to justify your stance on Benitez, then a page later you awknowledge that we in fact aren't just singing for Rafa, so which is it? Sounds like your argument is just a personal agenda to me

They need to think up something better than "there is only one Brendan Rodgers"

Actually factually not true i checked and there are 15143 named Brendan Rodgers in the uk alone.