The Sundance Kid
24 Aug 2007, 10:47 AM
okay, whatever we think of him, mourinho is handsome, we know that, the ladies love him, he has a swagger, a bad boy image, an attitude. benitez by contrast is a bit on the tubby side, not that that's a bad thing (in case any of you are fat). mourinho has a natural style, a natural presence, not even his harshest critics can deny that. the best designers want to dress him. benitez probably doesn't get the same offers. do you think rafa the gaffer might be jealous? everyone knows he hates mourinho. everyone is fascinated with mourinho, more newsprint is devoted to him than probably anyone else on the planet. mourinho just has this kind of allure, whatever the reason i think we have to accept it. he demands attention. do you think that's why rafa grew the goatee beard? to be more fashionable? and now he's moaning, is he trying to copy mourinho's style of management? has he come to the conclusion that mourinho wins league titles and trophies at whichever club he's at every single season because of the siege mentality he engenders? has rafa dispensed with the nice guy image and started trying to emulate "the special one" (as he's known)? what do you guys think?
personally, i think liverpool were unlucky against chelsea, a bad decision went against them, but i think they could have taken it with a bit more dignity, after all, liverpool were the beneficieries of a dodgy decision against villa, thanks to gerrard pulling rank with the referee. against chelsea, liverpool have had their fair share of favourable decisions, so it would have been more dignified to keep quite maybe? especially after all the rumpus in athens.
now rafa's stoking up a war of words with the manager of the current champions (fergie), and fergie's responded by saying he's got a "chip on his shoulder", which is a blatent reference to rafa's weight, as in he's eaten too many potato chips.
rafa clearly wants to emulate the success of fergie and mourinho, but is he going the right way about it by copying them? is he being clever or stupid? is he cracking under the strain of splashing the cash and heightening expectations?
he keeps saying man utd and chelsea have bought their success, but he's spent more than fergie since he's been in england, and everton finished above liverpool in his first season, despite him spending far more than them, so his argument seems a little bit illogical to say the least.
is the goatee a sign that he's having a mid-life crisis? certainly it seems a strange thing for a middle-aged man to do, especially one who's a little bit large around the waist (no offence to fat people). what next, will he be turning up for training in his leathers on a harley? i hope not, because i don't think he can carry it off, it's not his style, he needs to accept who he is.
fergie doesn't try and be anything other than what he is, he's a man comfortable in his own skin it seems to me, maybe because he's older and he knows how good he is, he doesn't suffer from an inferiority complex, maybe that's it, who knows.
is rafa's moaning a sign that he's lost the plot or is it a calculated and astute strategy on his part?
in other words, he's looked at the guys who keep winning league titles and decided he needs to do things a bit more like them?
discuss.
personally, i think liverpool were unlucky against chelsea, a bad decision went against them, but i think they could have taken it with a bit more dignity, after all, liverpool were the beneficieries of a dodgy decision against villa, thanks to gerrard pulling rank with the referee. against chelsea, liverpool have had their fair share of favourable decisions, so it would have been more dignified to keep quite maybe? especially after all the rumpus in athens.
now rafa's stoking up a war of words with the manager of the current champions (fergie), and fergie's responded by saying he's got a "chip on his shoulder", which is a blatent reference to rafa's weight, as in he's eaten too many potato chips.
rafa clearly wants to emulate the success of fergie and mourinho, but is he going the right way about it by copying them? is he being clever or stupid? is he cracking under the strain of splashing the cash and heightening expectations?
he keeps saying man utd and chelsea have bought their success, but he's spent more than fergie since he's been in england, and everton finished above liverpool in his first season, despite him spending far more than them, so his argument seems a little bit illogical to say the least.
is the goatee a sign that he's having a mid-life crisis? certainly it seems a strange thing for a middle-aged man to do, especially one who's a little bit large around the waist (no offence to fat people). what next, will he be turning up for training in his leathers on a harley? i hope not, because i don't think he can carry it off, it's not his style, he needs to accept who he is.
fergie doesn't try and be anything other than what he is, he's a man comfortable in his own skin it seems to me, maybe because he's older and he knows how good he is, he doesn't suffer from an inferiority complex, maybe that's it, who knows.
is rafa's moaning a sign that he's lost the plot or is it a calculated and astute strategy on his part?
in other words, he's looked at the guys who keep winning league titles and decided he needs to do things a bit more like them?
discuss.