Emerald Red wrote:tonyeh wrote:It's fucking amazing, this Benitez love in, it really is. There really are some gobshites that think the man could do no wrong at all despite all the evidence to contrary.
Are we really forgetting that bar one season (which he threw away), Liverpool were out of the league running by the halfway mark? A lucky CL final win ON PENALTIES in Istanbul, another final which was lost to dubious decisions, an FA cup final won on penalties again and that's really it.
He was an average manager that rode an incredible amount of luck, whose vaneer has finally rubbed away.
If we hadn't crawled back from 3-0 down in 2005, there's no way Benitez would have been around for 6 seasons.
Really, the record ain't that great.
I'll tell you what's amazing; that you can come onto a Liverpool supporters forum and get away with writing this. I'd have you instantly banned and f*cked off straight away for sounding like a bitter pr*ck. Seriously, you sound like you support someone else with a post like this.
What? For telling the truth?
I don't buy into the Benitez love in ER, it's as simple as that. Ra Ra flag waving is all well and good when there's something to back it up with. But, with the case of Benitez there wasn't that much to get excited over.
Sure, Istanbul was a great night. But, in hindsight, it was a knife-edge and could just as easily have gone the other way and I was left more disapointed with 08-09 season than hopeful.
For the majority of his tenure we played really underwhelming football coupled with incredibly frustrating managerial decisions, so it's very difficult for me to see him as the second coming.