Rafa Benitez and Liverpool’s Premier League Title Hopes in Four Seconds Flat
Welcome to our experimental new weekly feature, the Premier League in four easy seconds. Today, Liverpool equalled the number of defeats they suffered all last season in their first three games of this campaign, falling six points behind, uh, Tottenham Hotspur as they lost at home to Aston Villa. It was not, shall we say, a good day for Rafa Benitez.
In the 48th minute, Benitez turned to face the fourth official after the goal that had put Aston Villa 2-0 up at Anfield, apparently questioning the call of the referee to award the preceding corner-kick. It was a few seconds that captured Rafa’s current mood of limp frustration, as he half-heartedly gesticulated in a rather dubious projection of his team’s failings onto officialdom. It was almost as unconvincing and lame as Liverpool’s performance, and here it is summing up the surprising state of the Premier League this week.
The moment after
Contemplation
Gesticulation
Under the gaze
The fourth official considers Rafa's point
I can't hear you!
Back to reality, all too soon.
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Well i have no sympathy for Liverpool for two reasons firstly why should clubs that are in dept and that includes utd be in the champs league and be more than 600 millon in dept .Secondly football has become like rugby any team can beat each other because there all on the same energy levels like in drugby league and union and the word is Ephedrine and bycelegonine two of the drugs that uk sport have caught players taking but none from the golden egg the prem yet i discovered a team two years ago in the prem and uk sport said they couldent catch them .Well they caught paddy kenny allright ..ONE LAST THOUGHT JUST LOOK AT TONIGHTS GAMES CLOSER AND SEE PLAYERS RUNNING FASTER FOR LONGER AND WEIGHT LOSS LIKE RIED OF SUNDERLAND AND REO COKER.MILNER SKYRTLl RESULTS WILL BE MORE BAFFLING THAN LAST YEAR. TRUST ME
Davspurs – or should that be Daftspurs -What planet are you on you mad illiterate retard?
PETE a better planet than you do you think i said this without info is paddy kenny and the now scotish sensation danny caddamateri the only two ..Thats taken ephedrine if you dont belive me then ask uk sport .Dont call me a retard its the idiots that can die from this drug thats retards so fuck of burnley beating utd wont be the last till the new tests are excepted then we will see how many start playing crapp .Just to fill you in take a good look at drogba and malouda he loks dying and sunken face oh and running with a full tank for 90 mins magic or cheating you deside judging from last years outburst the latter.
I think that drugtesting measures can and should be improved at the highest levels of professional sports – but surely the Ferdinand ban shows the EPL takes such issues seriously and is willing to sacrifice sacred cows?
I also don’t buy the competitive argument – if everyone is doping, then you compete against dopers and there is no competitive advantage.
And I am writing from the Planet Earth, btw.
I think we need to institute random drug testing here in the Pitch Invasion comments section.
Agent Lucas does a fine job. Fine interplay between him and Villan mates. Creates free kick then scores from ensuing play. Best is, he still has boss’s trust. We have to rid him and manager.
DAVSPURS — you are right. Rafa should be tested for drugs.
I like this feature!
I managed to catch the first half of Liverpool-Aston Villa before changing to the Real Madrid match, and really Liverpool played really really poorly. They look like they’ve lost direction, nothing like last season. I think they will regret having to sell Xabi Alonso, but the fact is that they HAD to sell him because of his spats with Benitez.
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