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LFC ~ Wanted: Tuan rumah sewa baru.. no ahli KEJI plishhhh...
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The second half was a crazy game and when it is a crazy game you can't control things. Why was it crazy? Because it was crazy."
Rafa Benitez - not crazy about Liverpool's draw at Wigan.
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Reply #2361 epitome's post
apa yg beniteh ni meraban daa..crazy2  |
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Comment: Rafa's comedy of errors
Much has happened at Liverpool in recent weeks, and Frank Malley ponders whether the Robbie Keane saga has become a joke.
They like a joke in Liverpool. And now football has given them one.
It is called the Robbie Keane saga.
What a wonderful day ladies and gentleman. What a time to fork out £20million, buy a centre forward, leave him on the bench each week and say: How's that for a striker with no matches?
That might be the Ken Dodd way of viewing how Keane has been shuttled between pitch and bench and stand and reserves in what is rapidly turning into one of football's most traumatic career moves.
They say the best jokes tread a fine line between humour and tragedy and while a footballer on close to £100,000-week hardly falls into the latter category, especially in the midst of an economic depression, then you could still understand if it feels that way to Keane.
What has Keane done wrong to attract such treatment?
As far as I can see every time he has pulled on the famous red shirt he has worked tirelessly. Often he has made things happen.
True, he has not scored many goals, just five in 17 Premier League appearances since his move from Tottenham, but is that surprising when his confidence has been shredded by Benitez at every turn?
If he starts he is hooked off within the hour, having run defenders ragged only to allow those who follow him to reap the benefit of his labours.
If he comes on from the bench, invariably he has no more than 10 minutes, seven against Wigan on Wednesday, to make an impact.
Mostly, however, he has been left sitting, as he was in the Merseyside FA Cup derby last weekend when three substitutes were used before him. Redundant.
For a £20m asset to be rejected in such fashion there has to be some serious antipathy between manager and player.
It is almost as if Benitez is saying: 'I never wanted him. I don't think he was worth the money. I'm not going to play him. Why did you not get me Gareth Barry instead?'
The inability to land Barry in the summer is a sore which continues to fester at Anfield. It is said to be one reason for the reported friction between chief executive Rick Parry and Benitez, who apparently believes Liverpool's administrators were too slow and too mean in trying to clinch a deal for the Aston Villa midfielder.
There is no doubt it has affected the balance of Liverpool's team, considering Benitez's original plan appeared to be to play Barry on the left, Steven Gerrard in the middle and Keane in the hole behind the main striker.
Without Barry, Gerrard has been pushed up to assist the striker and has performed well, scoring nine league goals.
But the price has been high. The price has been the systematic dismantling of the confidence of one of the most dynamic and enthusiastic strikers in the English game.
A former England midfielder who once played alongside Keane told me this week of his bemusement at Keane's treatment.
He described a goal scorer who was, and he used the pun inadvertently, "the keenest footballer he had ever met," a leader who "rollicked team-mates" who slacked in training and told it as it was on the pitch and in the dressing room. A man to lift the spirits of an entire club. A man every manager would want on his side.
Except apparently Rafael Benitez.
The Liverpool boss has made some rickets this past couple of months in which the team have drawn seven out of 10 league matches and slipped to third place, none worse than his ill-considered rant against Sir Alex Ferguson.
Liverpool have not won a game since that ludicrous soliloquy which history might yet record as a suicide note for their title hopes.
Yet, worse by far, is the way he has handled Keane, an honest, decent, model professional who might as well have been cast in bronze and placed at the Anfield gates for all the chance he has been given these last few weeks.
At least fans could have walked around him and admired the art.
All they have at the moment is football's sickest joke.
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Originally posted by epitome at 30-1-2009 02:00 AM 
The second half was a crazy game and when it is a crazy game you can't control things. Why was it crazy? Because it was crazy."
Rafa Benitez - not crazy about Liverpool's draw at Wigan.
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Face Off pt 2
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Reply #2372 conan's post
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mana ko gali neh...?? |
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Reply #2372 conan's post
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2-2 jendul..kata pakjen |
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crazy..why crazy..crazy..jews crazy...gerrard crazy..carra crazy..i'm also crazy..hehehehehe |
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batu karang patients faceoff part 2 |
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Benayoun: Reds must be on song
Liverpool midfielder Yossi Benayoun is targeting Sunday's match at home to Chelsea for a return to winning ways.
The team have drawn seven of their last 10 Barclays Premier League matches to put a dent in hopes of the club winning a first title since 1990.
But with manager Rafael Benitez finally recording his first victory at Stamford Bridge earlier this season Benayoun believes back-to-back wins against the Blues is not unattainable.
It would also get their title challenge back on track, returning them to second place, which they lost to Luiz Felipe Scolari's side after drawing 1-1 at Wigan on Wednesday.
"Every game is important. We have to take three points against Chelsea just like we should have done against Wigan," said the Israel midfielder. "Chelsea are now in second place on goal difference so we need at least to go second.
"If we win the game we still have a chance to win the league.
"It's important to take each game as it comes and Chelsea is the next game at home, so we have to concentrate and do our best against them. "
Liverpool were guilty against Wigan of not making the most of their dominance - a trait which has cost them dear in recent weeks with a proliferation of draws.
But Benayoun said the club had the players with the necessary quality to put things right at Anfield on Sunday.
"Of course we are disappointed [with the Wigan result], especially when you are leading 1-0 a few minutes from the end," he added.
"We didn't speak much after the game. The manager just said 'good effort' but we will have to try not to do the mistakes we did and improve all the time.
"We have big players like Stevie Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and Fernando Torres.
"I'm sure that we will turn things around and start winning games soon. We have the quality and the players.
"If you want to win titles and achieve something you have to look one game ahead.
"It is a big test for everyone, especially after a few draws. It is a massive game against our direct rival at the top.
"They are a very strong team but we have proved we can beat them when we won away and I'm sure at Anfield we can win again and get our confidence back and fight for the title."
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