I bet he thought we ‘had a real chance’ when we came fourth in a two horse race! and when we were drawing with ManUre and he turned his back on Cantona’s shot!

Once a coward always a coward – Maybe he is taking advice fro Razor on how to pass around a pound – real professionalism for you,

By MARK IRWIN

TITLE-HUNGRY Liverpool will NEVER win the Premier League while Rafa Benitez remains their manager.

That is the damning verdict of former Anfield favourite Jamie Redknapp following the goalless bore at Chelsea.

Redknapp was at Stamford Bridge as a Sky analyst for Sunday’s turgid snooze-fest.

And he predicts a very long wait for the club who have not won a League Championship for 18 years and counting.

The former England international insisted: “Liverpool have got no chance of winning the title under Rafa Benitez. They are further away than ever.

“For Rafa Benitez, the kudos lies in winning the Champions League.

“That is his priority and everything he does is geared towards that goal.

“On their day, his team can beat anyone. But they struggle for consistency over the course of a Premier League season.

“I’ve heard people saying that Rafa is not a great manager, but you don’t get to two Champions League finals unless you are a master tactician.

“But when I look at Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea, the all have so many match- winners in their line-ups.

“Liverpool have got just two — Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres.”

Liverpool were reigning champions when Redknapp signed from Bournemouth as a 17-year-old back in 1991.

But Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, Roy Evans, Gerard Houllier and now Benitez have all failed to emulate the club’s former championship achievements since then.

Redknapp, now 34, admits he can see no end in sight to their long wait and blames Benitez’s controversial rotation policy for their struggles.

He said: “I’ve watched Liverpool’s progress very closely and I really thought that this could be their year.

“But they make so many changes to their line-up that they don’t get any consistency or understanding.

“I look at John Terry and Ricardo Carvalho at Chelsea, for example, they are a great partnership and have a real understanding from playing together.

“The best managers like Arsene Wenger and Alex Ferguson keep basically the same team and system. In their big games, they field their strongest team.

“But look at Liverpool. Who’s going to play up front? I’m not sure about Dirk Kuyt, but who plays up front with Fernando Torres? When Peter Crouch and Torres play together they look as if they can make it work but they never really seem to be given a chance.

“They get one or two games together and then Benitez changes it again.”

With Liverpool owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks watching critically from across the Atlantic, Redknapp believes Benitez’s fear of the sack has started to affect his approach.

But he was even more baffled by Chelsea’s tactics in a match they needed to win to capitalise on Manchester United’s earlier home defeat by Manchester City.

He said: “There is a fear factor with a lot of managers.

“They simply don’t want to lose. They would rather draw than risk going for the win.

“I looked at Chelsea for example. They brought on Claudio Pizarro late on but instead of playing with two up front, they withdrew Nicolas Anelka out wide.

“It seemed as if both clubs were happy with the point rather than run the risk of losing.”

What i was trying to say is that most people knock the manager without giving a balanced argument. Give the man a chance, some decent money and he just might do it. If he doesn’t then have a go, but not while he is trying on a comparative shoestring

Put simply, it is not about beating Arse, Manu or Chelsea away from home (we did that under Houllier, and it didnt win us the title). Chelsea haven’t done it this season, and i can bet they didn’t do it too regularly even when they won the title two seasons in a row. Its about beating evryone else, playing with some consistency, and Benitez will get there. And if he doesn’t within the next 3 years, then we’ll talk again.

There are some players there signed on loan, some signed because he didnt have the backing to sign the players he really wanted, some players you would have put your house on working (Morientes), and some haven’t even had a fair crack of the whip yet. And some are just cr@p, but then every manager has those, including Mssrs Ferguson, Wenger and Mourinho.

Stop bleating, stop going on about immediate success – IT DOESN’T HAPPEN MATE. Get behind your team and your manager. Or go support another club. Perhaps one that is going to win the prem this season. There’s your immediate success. Job done.

Signings

You list all these signings, and say they are flops but when rafa sat down with the chairman at the time, they were scraping money together, even spending champions league money that they hadn’t got to sign these players. If you gave Rafa a choice and said would you either have pennent or Alves you think he would have chosen pennent??

Rafa was working with the tools that he had and the players keep letting him down again and again. Pennent, dissapears at times on the pitch the same for kewell. But Rafa gets the blaim….

every single reporter who has a view or point to make about Liverpool is wrong, i mean the scotch git on Sky Sports still keeps saying “i hope Rafa stops rotating Torres and gives him a chance” jesus he got “rested” for one game at portsmouth nearly at the start of the season….

All the press are here to do is to shit stir with the hope that we will believe them and turn on Rafa, but it’s not working for them, and they get even more angry with the fans and try to create more and more lies and bullshit so that we waiver in our support or Rafa, but we haven’t, we’ve stood firm and will continue to do so, because we all know deep down that Rafa is the man for the job.

Put simply……………what about the prem what about actually beating anyone of the top 3 away from home?

To “justify” my transfer comments how about
Craig Bellamy
Mark Gonzalez
Josemi
Jan Kromkamp
Fernando Morientes
Antonio Nunez
Gabriel Paletta
Mauricio Pellegrino
Voronin
Itandje
Boudewjn Zenden
Fabio Aurellio
Leto
Arbeloa
Pennant
Kuyt
To name a few of his signings.

Maybe the forwards are performing so badly because Benitez insists on rotation, something that the other big three seem to do alot less of especially the forwards.