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Rafael Benítez pays for being press-ganged into blind alleys | Richard Williams | 				Football | 				The Guardian
Rafael Benítez pays for being press-ganged into blind alleys | Richard Williams | Football | The Guardian
Rafael Benitez has revealed a weakness by his apparent admission that he worried about what the media say. Photograph: Ian Kington/AFP/Getty Images
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“The real challenge is to work out what to do as an alternative, to make sense of a post-Rafa landscape” - Matt Dickinson
101 Great Goals - latest football videos and international soccer goals from the Premier League, Champions League,La liga, Serie A, World Cup, UEFA Cup and more — ... Continuing the Benitez-bashing is Richard Williams, who mocks the Reds’ boss for “the inescapable conclusion… that Benitez takes the media’s response into consideration when it comes to making his selections… Surely someone of Benítez’s standing should not be allowing the views of the media even to cross his mind.” A different line of abuse is dished on Benitez by ...

Some News for Tue Nov 3, 2009
du Nord — ... Telegraph talks to UEFA president Michel Plantini about his vision for the future of European football. UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Several articles from the Guardian: -Jonathan Wilson: CSKA Moscow go Russian with Leonid Slutsky after foreign experiment fails -Sid Lowe: Are 'madhouse' Atlético Madrid the worst run club in Europe? -New Fernando Torres scare exposes Rafa Benítez's sub-prime deals -Rafael Benítez pays for being press-ganged into blind alleys dN Rob Hughes of the ...

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