Rupert

The "three amigos" was a spoof film about the show biz pantomime version of three Mexicans. In fact, Mexicans are not Spanish, Portugese or French. The three guys in the movie were two Americans and a Canadian.

One speaks Spanish, another Portugese and the third French. Spanish and Portugese use the word "amigo". French does not.

You got some of that right - you are desperate! Rafa has played the so-called "three amigos" - a silly name when one of them speaks French not Spanish. He explained before the match today that ManUtd have a large strong squad and can send on reinforcements in the last thirty minutes, which explains why they win so many games in inrury time. So he planned the game so that he would have fresh legs in the last 35 minutes. If Rafa ran on the pitch and blocked their shots and then stormed to the other end and scored a hat-tick, if he took over from Lampard and put away the penalty against Citeh, you'd probably say it was a fluke. And what's with this telly tubby shit? Are you yourself fat? He's a football manager not a wannabe male model like Mourinho.

I see the hate boys are patrolling with their twisted logic. According to them Rafa was responsible for the poor first half but should not get credit for the magnificent second half. People should accept that this Chelsea team was not put together by Rafa. He did not buy any of the players. He did not have them for pre-season. They are still playing according to the basic tactical book established by Di Mateo because Rafa did not want them to switch to his favored zonal marking in mid-season. They are young, inexperienced and some of them are not capable of taking instructions from the beginning of a match and they cannot figure it out for themselves - they need one half to understand what they are doing wrong. They don't fully understand the need to play as a unit in defence and attack. Rafa is a genius at mid-game tactical changes. But he has to have a team that will follow instructions and work together. This team is too cowered by Terry and Lampard. Thank God Terry was not picked today and good that Lampard was replaced - he has been fading lately and even missed a crucial penalty against Citeh. and the team has been trying to hard to help him achieve a personal scoring record. Rafa has shown that even when 3-0 down in a CL final he can win. I told you last week that in his last game at OT he won 4-1. But his LFC played as a unit and followed the tactical plan - not like Chelsea in the first half. In the second half, with the removal of Lampard and Moses - they buckled down and played to instructions. They should have won - it was there for the taking. At then end of the day they did very well and Rafa saved the day. .

Well done Rafa and the boys! I watched the LFC v Spurs game at the same time. What a difference! LFC were dragged to victory and roared on by their supporters even when they were trailing. But Chelsea had to fight against the UTF crowd and the usual posse of ignorant goons with a hate agenda who try to pass themselves off for the TV cameras as Chelsea supporters.

Well done Rafa and the boys despite some disgusting Chelsea "supporters" trying to bring you down. I watched the LFC Tottenham match at the same time. What a difference! LFC dragged to victory by their supporters even though they were a goal down. Chelsea fighting the UTD supporters and the ignorant yobos with an agenda who claim to be Chelsea supporters..

The usual ignorant rubbish. Rafa already has job offers and one of them is from Chelsea.

The last time Rafa managed a team against Man Utd was 2009 when his LFC defeated Utd at Old Trafford by 4-1. After the match Rafa said publicly other teams in the league should adopt his tactics against Utd. But they didn't. Other teams tend to be scared of Utd at OT. Rafa wasn't. He believed the best approach was fast-paced, high pressure straight at the heart of the Utd defence. I think he could do it with Chelsea.

I think we should sack some of the interim "supporters".

Well done Rafa! Don't let the bastards get you down.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/ian-herbert-rafa-benitez-is-not-flawed-because-he-grew-tired-of-being-abused-8515815.html As I have been telling the goons on her for some time, Rafa never said the things attributed to him in 2007. But some of you goons don't care about the truth. The fact is that Mastermind Rafa kicked Mourinho's Chelsea out of two CL semi-finals and an FA Cup. The goons are sore losers. Here is what Ian Herbert wrote today (something I have told the goons on here several times in the last few months). "Little did he imagine when doing so just how many ways to discredit him there would be. The first materialised barely a day into his tenure, when a 2007 quote ascribed to him was raked up. "Chelsea is a big club with fantastic players. Every manager wants to coach a big team. But I would never take that job, in respect for my former team at Liverpool. No matter what," he was quoted as saying. Benitez was Liverpool manager in 2007, so how could he have called them his "former club" back then? The quote, it turned out, was fabricated – disseminated by a 15-year-old tweeter from the Czech Republic who was a fan of Benitez, felt betrayed by his appointment at Chelsea and decided to cause him some trouble. The boy's Twitter avatar photo was a cartoon of his hero Benitez. But the lie was half way around the world before the truth could pull its trousers on. The "quote" was widely published and became a part of the "Benitez hates Chelsea" myth." The bottom line is Rafa is too good for the Chelsea boo boys and he and everyone else in football is entitled to feel contempt not only at the goonish boo boys but also those who allow them to get away with it.

Chelsea FC have announced today that its interim fans will be leaving the club when Abramovich's money runs out.

What is RAWK? Some of the haters are so full of themselves - they actually believe that they represent Chelsea supporters. I hope I have made it clear that as a long-standing Chelsea supporter from the 1970's, a former resident of Chelsea who has been fortunate enough to have met many legends including DeMatteo, I disassociate myself from the boo boys and I believe that most Chelsea supporters are also embarrassed by their antics on the home terraces, at away games and on the internet. Criticizing the manager and players for tactics, or performance is fair game. But for the Chelsea boo boys its not about football - its about some twisted sense of grievance (a) that the club owner turns a deaf ear to them and ( b ) that Rafa once defended his club from Mourinho's mind games by saying that his club and its supporters had passion and made their own flags and banners. And how right he was. Look at other clubs - banners and songs to their past and present players and encouragement even when they are losing. And then look at Chelsea - little scribbled pieces of A4 paper insulting the manager and outright booing their team in a Cup Final in Japan, in a UEFA match in Sparta etc etc, turning on them during every match when they are not winning. I bet the Chelsea players, especially the young ones, would love to get the kind of encouragement other teams get from their supporters, especially when its a tough game. Unfortunately, a vocal minority of those in the crowd and on the net don't support the club, they support themselves. They boo in the pathetic belief that they can somehow force the club to bend to their will. The hypocrisy of the situation is that what Rafa said seven years ago is not even remotely as insulting as some of the things the Chelsea manager at the time said about Rafa and his club. But the Chelsea boos boys are such sensitive souls. They are so deeply wounded. They would actually prefer the club to lose than for Rafa to be recognized as the fine man and manager he is. He's too good for them but not too good for the rest of us who admire him and the dignified way he has kept working for the club despite the invective hurled his way.

If City have an outside or mathematical chance of winning the league (in the event of an unlikely Man Utd collapse) then so do we, if we beat City. Highly improbable, of course, but never day die. We should be aiming to finish second. I'm not worried about Torres or Demba, I'm worried about Terry and the defence. If the team play as a compact unit, attacking and defending together and keeping its shape, the way Rafa likes to play, we should win. It will also help that the Chelsea boo boys will be in the minority. The team can be more focused away from home.

Can you sort out your hate priorities, please. You can't say that Torres missed many good chances and then say that Rafa's tactics didn't work. Rafa tactics are to produce chances. The players responsibilities are to execute them. Also Rafa has scope to make substitutions. His substitution of Hazard for Oscar was greeted boos by the usual ignorant boo-boys, yet it produced the winning goal. Kudos to Rafa. As for Torres - goalscorers need confidence. He has been the object of the yobo boo boys for months . In Japan the "loyal" supporters booed him and Rafa as they did in Sparta and various other grounds. This must be a first for a leading club. You and some of the other haters on here are obsessed with Rafa's appearance. Is it because you are yourself fat and merely expressing a form of self-hatred. Or is there some other deep-seated reason you don't want to tell us about. I notice a lot of the Rafa haters are also fascinated with Mourinho's appearance .....hmmmmm As for the substitution. I wanted Rafa to take Oscar off long before he did. I know some of you thought he played a good game. I thought he reverted back to the bad form he showed before Rafa started dropping him from the starting 11. Time and again he lost possession of the ball through bad passes or inability to keep the ball under control - a kick forward two feet too far right into the feet of a defender. And because he did this in their third he left us open to counter attack time and again. When Rafa took him off I felt that the midfield would relate better to the attack and it would be more penetrative. Mikel was not physically fit or up for this game. The back line continued to be brittle and Terry better attend to his defensive duties and cease giving his opinion to the media about things that are not his business. When he said that the manager must take the responsibility because he picks the team he was obviously referring to DeMatteo and his former boss. He couldn't have been referring to Rafa because he had no say in the formation of the squad or its pre-season and tactical training. Terry's remarks are self-serving. The responsibility for bad play, failure to execute a managers plan and lack of commitment is the players responsibility despite the tradition that has developed at Chelsea of blaming the manager. But if the manager is to be blamed then he, and not the players, should also get the credit for any success.

Well done Rafa and your team! You've kept us in Europe like you used to do at all the other teams you managed. I'm not convinced all your players have the drive and tactical knowledge required, but you do. Now unto City.

Would you like to demonstrate what was factually wrong about my statement ? Didn't you know that Rafa personally telephoned El Nino when the player was at AMadrid and asked him to come to the UK and LFC and paid slightly less than 20 million for him and that el Nino then proceeded to score at will from open play - without penalties or free kicks - to become the fastest player to reach 50 for LFC - and then some? Didn't you know that on this basis Chelsea offered and paid 50 million for him - even though his scoring had slowed after Rafa had left LFC? What exactly was wrong with my statement? Perhaps I should add that el Nino is on record as saying that Rafa is the best manager he has ever had. Some of you people live in a bubble of blind hatred about Rafa and el Nino that even the statement of the plain facts cause you to throw your dummies out of the pram. The cause of your hatred is pathetic - let's see - Rafa a rival manager made comments seven years ago in response to Mourinho's stream of invective that the supporters lack passion for their club. Rafa was right. There have been innumerable examples of posters on here wishing that Chelsea loses so that Rafa will be blamed.

You can read all the garbled, biased versions or you can read what Rafa actually said about Real Madrid, Chelsea and Spain on his website: http://www.rafabenitez.com/web/index.php?act=mostrarContenidos&idioma=in&co=2127

More rubbish! After the so-called Rafa rant, which he read in a calm manner from prepared notes, LFC went on to win more points that season than before. It is Ferguson who can't get over it. Whenever Rafa has been asked, including this year, he has smilingly reiterated what he said then - and he was right in what he said. Ferguson gets mad at anybody who beats him and Rafa's LFC was first in the league when he made his statement although ManUtd had two or three games in hand. When Ferguson feels threatened he turns to the cock-sucking managers like Mourinho for support. Mourinho was politking for the Man Utd job when he was at Chelsea unlike Rafa who said he would never take it out of respect for LFC fans - but Mourinho won't get it.

Must be so confusing being you - worried that the team's number 1 forward will score and that the manager who selected him might then select him again against the champions next weekend. Reminder - Rafa did not pay 50 million for Torres - he paid 20 million and coached him to be the fastest scorer of 50 goals in LFC's history without taking a single penalty or free kick.

The truth is that there are too many games coming too quickly. A manager has to prioritize. But what is more important beating Man City or progressing to the next round of the EC? They are equally important. Laudrup featured a weakened Swansea side against a poor LFC yesterday to save them for the Cup Final and he got thrashed 5-0. If I were Rafa I would err on the side of winning - play a strong side for both matches and hope the players rise to the occasion. I would not play Turnbull. I might play Ramirez and Moses and Mikel.

That "fan" looks as stupid as his little bitty piece of paper with the illiterate marker pen writing.

The score would have been 5 or 6 if Torres had played, IMO, because the attack would have been better organised in the first half and Brentford would have had to devote two players to handle him, thereby making space for Mata and Oscar, and Torres would probably have scored. But it was better that he was rested for next week. Demba was the "victim" of a team with players who don't play well with a lone striker. Therefore it is ironic that the first goal was the result of such a direct move - lobbed from the back to the centre-foward and his deflection to Mata. I'd like to see us mix in a few more of these direct tactics especially against teams who play a double back four and turn up to defend.

Terry just said that all the reports about him and Rafa having a row were "rubbish" and "yellow journalism". That will disappoint some of the Rafa-haters on here. Well done, Rafa! Another victory for you and your team. Keep ignoring the yobos.

Torres is one of the leading goalscorers at the club as well as an influential force in attack assisting others and anyone who calls him a clown and wants to get rid of him is himself a clown. (I remember how some on here were in ecstasy when Chelsea paid 50 million for him - jeering at the scousers boasting that he preferred us to them. Actually, he had already stopped being so prolific at LFC because Rafa had gone - although he was still scoring some). My remarks about the past 5 managers was provocative but not so wrong. Scolari and Hiddink have about 15 more years experience than Rafa and I am sure he will eclipse their trophies in his next 15 years. Ancelotti is only slightly older than Rafa - I don't know how many trophies he has but it's amusing how the yobo haters discount some of Rafa's trophies as "minor" while counting them as "major" for other managers. One of those "minor" trophies was the Club World Cup and some of the yobo haters on here wanted to sack Rafa because he didn't win it for Chelsea about a month after he arrived at the club. It seems the rule is first hate then look for justification for the hatred. To say Rafa is surviving on his past reputation is nonsense. Every manager survives on his reputation. Rafa's is fantastic. Look at the Portugese Poseur, Mourinho (also getting fat), for example. He has been in Spain three season at the richest club in the world and one of the two dominant teams in the Liga.. He has won the mickey mouse cup and the league. In the same period of time Rafa won the Liga twice with a much poorer team at Valencia and the UEFA cup.