I hate Rafa benitez. Really REALLY hate him.
I dont like anything about him. From the way he conducts himself in the media to the way he sets out his teams and the way he makes substitutions.
I hate that he has spent 200m and we still are shit unless our best player (who he inherited) plays out of his skin. I hate the fact he bought Gonzales and Bellamy and Morientes and Crouch and then complained that he never has any money to spend.
I hate his notepad and his shitty little pen.
I hate his horrible pre-determined substitutions.
I hate the timing of them.
I hate his endless squad rotation.
I hate the fact that he drops players who are playing well and offers no incentive to any of our squad to bother playing into form (NB-This does of course not include Dirk Kuyt)
I hate the fact that he will play two defensive midfielders (or deep lying ones if you want to be a pedant) in every single away game, even if it is against Fulham, Stoke or Wigan.
I hate his constant sniping at Manchester united that constantly makes him look like a huge fucking tongued dribbling moron.
I hate the way he conducts his business in the press, and that he believes it is a right and proper thing to do.
I hate the way he uses players to get his own way.
I hate the way he treats players as pieces of meat and has no fucking clue about how to actually deal with human fucking beings.
I hate the way he uses the same wank soundbites when we lose 'Its clear we are thinking only about the next game'
I hate his inflexibility.
I hate his snide attitude
I hate the football he has us play.
I hate the fact he will stubbornly refuse to give players a chance when other players are constantly given sooo much leeway to do what they want on the pitch without any sign of them being hooked.
I hate the way he hasnt identified yet that we need a right winger.
I hate the way he has refused to bring any youth players through.
I hate the way he has treated some legends at our club, and some none legends too.
I hate the fact we didnt get to say goodbye to good pros.
I hate the way he sold players and didnt replace them with any better quality.
Mostly i just hate the way he will not accept that he cant do everything his way, and that the premier league takes some winning. He just doesnt seem to acknowledge that the other team will have any say so in the outcome of a match.
I hate the way he has made me feel about my club, and how he has at times made me cringe and be embarrased to tell the people who are laughing at me to fuck off.
The things he has done regarding Keane have made me absolutely disgusted with him.
Theres more to our club than winning and losing games, there is history and family and tradition and pride and respect. We could win all the games and trophies in the world and yet we will never be winners.
I fully expect to be flayed apart for this post. And a year ago i said i hoped i was wrong and you were all right and that you could all say i told you so and i would have to hang my head in shame. Well this time i wouldnt care less. I hope we win the league, and i hope you all get to say i told you so, but i will still want him gone, i will still want a change, because nothing he could do could make me like him or want him at my club a day longer. I have not only fallen out of love with Rafa, but he is making me not love my football club any more. He is making me feel like we are just any old club. I dont want him in my future.
I want to be winners off the pitch even if we arent good enough to be winners on it.
I want to feel proud to support my club again. I want to feel like im part of the privelidged group i always felt i was. I want to believe that happier times were round the corner.
Im sorry to those i offend, i couldnt keep this in any longer. I feel like it must feel to have really fallen out of love with someone and that every little thing they do makes you want to punch them in the face.
I want to punch rafa in the face, and i dont want to feel like this anymore, so i think its better for all concerned if he just leaves. He can come and see the players every other saturday or something. But he just has to go for my sanity.
