HATCHET MAN: Rafa's facts are fiction - 'Better than United' Liverpool will win nothing this season

24 April 2009 07:51
Rafael Benitez still has a lot to learn in the managerial mind games stakes if his latest effort is anything to go by.[LNB]His team have crashed and burned yet he is still trying to wind-up Sir Alex Ferguson and it only damages his credibility.[LNB]Surely now is the time for him to rise above the war of words, to show he really was not bothered by the last low blow about his gesture against Blackburn and a two-year old jibe at Everton.[LNB] [LNB]Behind Sir Alex yet again: But Rafael Benitez insists his Liverpool side are better than United [LNB]The fact that Liverpool have very little left to play for this season beyond holding on to second place and their pride is even more reason, but the manager is still trying to justify himself.[LNB]It's quite sad really, but Benitez claims Manchester United counterpart Sir Alex Ferguson 'can see we are the better side' even though only one of their teams is still in the running for two major trophies.[LNB]For all that Liverpool have improved this season they will have absolutely nothing to show for it, yet the deluded Spaniard seems to think he has finally cracked this Premier League business.[LNB]   More from Hatchet Man... HATCHET MAN: When Clegg met Keano: I can Truly Seymour Foggy times ahead when the summer whine starts at Portman Road24/04/09 HATCHET MAN: The best league in the world? Not if the likes of Robinho can end up its top scorer24/04/09 HATCHET MAN: Welcome to Oil Drum Lane, new home of Tottenham Hotspur FC - that'll step on a few toes24/04/09 HATCHET MAN: FIFA chief Sepp Blatter deserves a dressing down23/04/09 HATCHET MAN: Talkative Tevez might just have given United boss Fergie the perfect reason to give him the Old Trafford boot23/04/09 HATCHET MAN: Chelsea striker Anelka on the mark with dig at former club Arsenal23/04/09 HATCHET MAN: Barking mad? Ipswich should learn from Sunderland and get ready for Keane going walkies23/04/09 HATCHET MAN: When the Black Cats boss is away... Sunderland chairman Quinn Keane to slam ex-manager Roy22/04/09 VIEW FULL ARCHIVE Maybe the strain is actually getting to him. He insists that he tries not to speak out too much but sometimes has to 'defend' his team.[LNB]Like the bizarre listing of his so-called facts after one of Fergie's tiresome fixtures moans? Hardly.[LNB]Brave Benitez was 'standing up to him' in his mind but left everyone else perplexed - and he still isn't making any sense.[LNB][LNB] [LNB]  

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