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Lol. Bet the Rafa-bashers were also calling for his head in Istanbul and at Wembley. How you would have loved to see us not be level at full time. Don't came back with "That was all Steven Gerrard"; they had to reach the final to even be in those positions, and besides, who kept SG at Anfield in 2005?

For all his faults (and there were many) Rafa did bring Liverpool into the modern age football-wise. Hate him all you like, he's a successful manager with a career game win ratio higher than very nearly anyone. He may have been a waiter to you, but count the managers outside Wenger who stand up to Fergusson. One can usually measure one's success by the number of your peers who hate you, and I think it's fair to say Rafa had more enemies in the EPL than anyone. Who else would dare suggest Blackburn's style was to be copied by Barcelona?

I agree that he needed to go, but I disagree that he was anywhere near as bad a manager as many of you believe.

... that monster Benitez ... never ever took any of the domestic cups seriously except once when we won the F.A.Cup ... carried on causing turmoil by donating money to charities

Yeah, what a monster!

so you measure how good you are by how many other managers hate you do you, well why was'nt Shanks and Sir Bob hated then and they were the best at the time, sorry big flaw in your statement there mate...

lol - you really don't understand do you? Some people also carry themselves in such a way that people won't come out and talk sh!t about them because then the speaker looks the boor. Shanks was such a man, a true gentlemen, but if you think anyone at Everton or Manchester United thought highly of him you'd be mistaken. Success breeds envy, and the greater the success, the greater the envy.

You think Hodgson enjoyed Fergie saying Torres was a cheat? No. Did he say anything vitriolic in reply, such as pass a snide comment about Nani? No. Why? Because he doesn't have the balls to do it. It was the same with Shanks - he could say what he liked and people would accept it and go crawl in a hole somewhere, because no one had guts or the standing to do it.

Rafa threw that sh!t back in their faces, and they hated him because he didn't stand for that. If you think he said "Mr. Fergusson" because he didn't understand Fergie's title, you are mistaken. It wouldn't have mattered if Liverpool had performed poorly, cos then they could just laugh at him, but we were top 4 every season but the last and we picked up some important silverware (you might not call that success, but it's better than what came before him). They hated him so much they're still talking sh!t about him, and he's not been in England for months. Takes a lot of respect to cause that.

Attacking ferguson is not 'washing your dirty laundry in public' Attacking the board would be considered as such. (I didn't and don't think he should have had a go at ferguson but every manager is different as long as they win games or push t he team forward in some way fans don't care

Are you writing all your 'theories' down on the walls in your own sh!t?

Benitez Responding to Ferguson with a rant from a peice of paper in his hand was pathetic and embarrassing, it was more common sense to let the ramblings of whisky nose go without engaging in such childish, tit for tat, school yard arguments that made him and the club look small and without dignity.