Rafa Benitez

February 4th, 2009

Keane returns to Spurs

By: Kai | Comments 8 Comments

Robbie Keane has returned to Spurs after just half a season that has promised so much, but delivered so little. Following a dream move to Liverpool, which Robbo has supported as a young lad, he didn’t manage to win Rafa’s favour and probably saved his career from further anguish by moving back to Spurs.
Conspiracy theories [...]



February 2nd, 2009

Premier League: Liverpool 2 Chelsea 0

By: Nadia | Comments 7 Comments

Dearest Liverpool Offside readers, sorry for being MIA. Was on a 9 day leave from work, and Rock Band is taking over my life

While one Rafa bagged the Australian Open title, the other Rafa scored a league double against Chel$ki, a feat last achieved in 1990. After drawing way too many games, dropping points unnecessarily [...]

January 5th, 2009

FA Cup 3rd Round: Preston 0, Liverpool 2

By: Kai | Comments 8 Comments

Following the high of our win at St James’ Park, Rafa rested Benayoun, Lucas, Kuyt & Reina. Replacing them in the starting lineup are Keane, Riera, Alonso & Cavalieri between the posts.
Gerrard was played following his little run-in with the law and produced yet another composed display.
Keane wasted another hatfull of chances as usual and [...]

November 27th, 2008

Liverpool 1 Marseille 0: Unconvincing but does the job

By: Nadia | Comments 5 Comments

Rafa finally learns how to pronounce ‘dilemma’, some Marseille fans are morons and clearly, we have a goal-scoring crisis
CSD was spot-on when he predicted a narrow score-line for Wednesday’s Matchday 5 encounter with French side, Olympique de Marseille. Nevertheless, this “scary” win qualifies the Reds to the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League tournament [...]

November 4th, 2008

UCL Matchday 4: Liverpool 1 Atletico Madrid 1

By: Nadia | Comments 13 Comments

It was a boring match until the last 4 minutes of stoppage time, which saw a questionable penalty given to Liverpool (Fine by me, we’ll take the draw) and 4 yellow cards.
If we hadn’t scored, I would probably started off by saying Liverpool was shite. Nando’s former club outplayed us, and though we had most [...]



June 29th, 2008

In Rafa We Trust

By: CSD | Comments 4 Comments

Image courtesy of NeverOffside whether he knows it or not.
I wanted to take a minute to talk a little bit about Rafa Benitez. Such a great manager and inspiration he has been for this club. He’s delivered the Champions League, the FA Cup, but now faces another challenge, the league. For many [...]

June 4th, 2008

Manager for a Day: Who would you choose?

By: JRW | Comments 13 Comments

With the silly season in full swing, I wanted to have everyone put on their fake Rafa mask for one second (the goateed or non-goateed version is up to you) and pretend that you’re in the Spaniard’s shoes.
We know Rafa was given a current budget of £20 million from Hicks and Gillett to use [...]

April 15th, 2008

Liverpool’s Most Dangerous Man

By: CSD | Comments 1 Comment

Little Fernando turned 30 over the weekend. They grow up so fast. *sniff* That’s 30 goals, not 30 years. At this point the £26 million to bring him over is seems like a bargain. So you might think, “This is going to be another we all have man crushes on [...]

March 28th, 2008

Merseyside Derby!

By: CSD | Comments 4 Comments

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when our neighbors, Everton, come to visit at Anfield. In the first meeting, LFC squeaked out a win at Goodison Park 1-2. You might remember the controversial switch when Rafa took out Steven Gerrard because he was playing with “too much passion.” Hopefully, Stevie [...]

February 19th, 2008

The Pressure is On

By: CSD | Comments 3 Comments

I have mixed feelings when it comes to Rafa. On one hand, he did get us to two Champions League finals in three years, on the other, he does silly things that keeps us at #4 (or worse) and gets us knocked out of the FA Cup.






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