He handed United the league last season with the most embarassing rant I have heard since Keegan which was all read from a peice of paper pulled from his pocket, this heaped tremendos pressure on the team which had already shown throughout the season could'nt handle the pressure of being top as it was, and even know he is already getting his excuses in for next season by claiming Man City have destabilised the transfer market.
Sorry Benitez is a horrible man and luckily for us will be replaced at the end of this coming season.
FFS will you get off this rant ...words do not cost a club the Premiership. We drew games earlier in the season that we should have won. PLEASE STOP THIS BULLSH!T about his rant costing us the Prem. Fact is we had a bad patch where we got draws that we should have won!! That's what cost us the Prem! [/quote]You have to take things into consideration of what happend before and what happend after the rant to see if it effected the situation. We had just put in the best performance of the season to date by beating Newcastle 5-1 at St James Park, we were still top of the league and United had not long come back from Japan and were struggling to play well after a lucky late goal against Stoke, everything was as good at it could be.
The problem we have had most of the season to date was that we where struggling in every game we played from the game we kicked off the season with against Sunderland up until the Newcastle game, we could'nt handle the pressure of being top of the league and everyone wanting to knock us off, up until then we had to rely on goals in injury time on a about 5 or 6 occasions against absoulute rubbish and we were even booed off by our own fans because we were that bad.
What any decent manager would of done was to take the pressure off the team but instead the mad Spaniard heaped more pressure on by coming out with a RANT about a rival manager whose team we were not even due to face for at least another two and a half months.
As you know in situations like this it's alrite saying these fighting words but you MUST be able to back it up and this is where the more pressure he put on his own team came into it, everyone knew that the football world would be seeing how our team reacted after this RANT and as we know we buckled big time. Our next three league fixtures resulted in Stoke 0-0, Everton 0 - 0 and Wigan 1 - 1, United won all there games during that period and from then on we were playing catch up right up until the end of the season which we failed to manager to overcome those three dreadful draws.
So please dont tell me that Benitez RANT did not play a major part in us failing to capitalise on our best ever chance of winning the Premiership title, the man is incompetent and a liability and this season with it being his last in charge will be proved beyond doubt that he should of been replaced after his last RANT about " Coaching his players " which he told us about 75 times in one interview which again was both embarrassing for himself and the club.
