Murph dont tell me his name seduced ya
Emp I think its more of a respect thing for Rafa because we're having a bad season but the guy has brough us some good times as well and him and his wife do a lot of work in and around the city of Liverpool.
Would you have started calling Shankly a loser when he failed to replace his ageing team at the end of the 60's?
In fairness Murph, Shankly totally re-built Liverpool and turned them from an average 2nd Division outfit to the best team in the land. He deserved the full confidence of the board and the fans, because he earned it by proving how good he was. Rafa came to a power-house, and has had six years to build on it. He hasn't moved us forward much at all, and now, we are declining. The fact is that he did the same thing at Valencia, inherited Hector Cuper's team, was successful with it, then broke it up and couldn't replicate the success.
