Whose fault is it anyway

Liverpool have lost 4 games in a row. In one of those matches they lost because the ball got deflected off a beach ball. That’s funny. Because the Ref who allowed the goal to stay is now officiating in the Championship. Never had we seen such a goal and never will we ever see it again. Sadly however, this could be the ball that could end Rafa Benitez’s career as a Liverpool manager and spell doom for us.

It’s a damn shame right now. I don’t get it why the players have gone suddenly AWOL. I can understand that when we are losing we deserve criticism. There’s got to be a collective responsibility in it, but in football the manager has to own up, no matter whatever kind of shit he has to go through. However I would also like to point out that despite owning the ultimate responsibility Rafa was just undone by some unjust bewitchery and black magic cast on the team.

Sometimes the International Break seems to suggest that the players are out to play some of their most important matches of their career. Its ok if he was an Argentine as in the case of Mascherano. But take Torres and Gerrard. What are they playing for in the first case. Rafa phoned Del Bosque and Capello and asked the managers personally to sit out the duo, having had an Injury scare. And What does Del Bosque say? He says he’ll take care of Torres just like in Liverpool. And then the result is we have a crocked Torres. Seriously what more can a manager do? I have always defended and maintained that Liverpool aren’t a two-man team. But with Aquilani yet to return, Mascherano arriving late, Riera being injured we are not missing 2 but 5 players.

Rafa’s Mistakes

Right now I am going through a massive ordeal every time I visit a footie page or watch a Liverpool match listening to smucks calling everything that Rafa does is a mistake. We have had a good team, but to lose 4 matches is not right, agreed. Benayoun and Kuyt are simply mediocre at the moment. They seem to lack the inspiration that they used to get from Alonso in the middle. Which leads to the question : Is selling Alonso Rafa’s mistake?

Last night Carlton “****head” Palmer was at it again. That Rafa tried to offload Alonso and he got the better of Rafa next year. I had watched every season of Alonso’s at Liverpool and last season was the best. But at the same time I do remember the season before was his worst. Many a times I had to endure his useless Hollywood long balls that simply flies past the winger, who vainly gives a thumbs up and turns away. Rafa tried to sell him. But not for nothing. And it was this act that made Alonso more desperate to become the player that he is today. Doesn’t it speak more that there were no takers for him for 16m the year before and just one year made teams ready to splash out double the amount.

For the moment he is gone. The only Alonso I care of will drive for Ferrari next year. End of it.

Is the formation wrong?

Against Fiorentina, Aurelio played in midfield. And the wankfest started straight away. Now am not saying Aurelio is the greatest of midfield players, but without Mascherano he is not a bad option defensively. In fact he played well there but it was the others around him who sucked. Torres missed some chances, but no one touches him. Against Sunderland Spearing played in midfield. That’s a bad move but what other options does Rafa have? Zilch. Rafa played him because he had to, not because he wanted to.

Honestly the only mistake Rafa did was buying Aquilani. Lucas is simply not good enough to inspire others. And that Aquilani yet to kick a football has become Rafa’s greatest undoing. We could have bought a Sneijder or Van Der Vaart and played much better and finish fourth without much flak.

These are trying times and as I said there’s more scorcery around. With the kind of luck we have now I won’t be surprised If Michael Owen scores a Hat-trick this weekend. Sigh. I feel so sorry for Rafa now. He did everything to build a great team last year, came so close and then had to buy players from selling to put a title bid this year. Infact there’s so much truth that lies buried about this year’s signings that people don’t know. Aquilani was bought in EMI that cost us about only 5m this year. Glen Johnson was bought from the money Portsmouth owed us for Crouch. We spent about 15m this year against 40m earned from selling. And George Gillet says its all Rafa’s fault. What a faggot.

All I can say now is at the moment it’s not the end of the world. We can still Qualify in CL. We did it in 2005. We did it in 2007. Every time we did it we went to the finals. Thats the kind of massive lift one gets when coming back from hopeless situations. The night is darkest just before the dawn. Remember? We’ve got Man United coming and it shall be fantastic if we can start our resurgence against them.  We just have to walk on with hope in our hearts.