Rafael Benitez once called his team’s Merseyside rivals, Everton, “a small club” but when you consider only three clubs (Liverpool, United and Arsenal) have won more English league titles, it’s was a fairly ridiculous put-down.
Sir Alex Ferguson, who is less than impressed with the hounding he has received from the loopy FSW, has today criticised his rival manager ahead of our FA Cup clash against the fairly big club Everton.
“Everton are a big club, not a small one which Benitez arrogantly said,” said Ferguson. “But arrogance is one thing. You cannot forgive contempt, which is what he showed Sam Allardyce last weekend. When Liverpool scored their second goal he signalled as if the game was finished. I do not think Sam deserved that. I just thought it showed contempt. In my experience no Liverpool manager has ever done that. It was beyond the pale.”
Whilst I agree with the Fergie on Benitez, who lacks the class Liverpool fans would expect in their manager, I’m not entirely sure Everton or Allardyce need their battles fighting for them.
In other news, bye bye.
anything can happen in this game…the over confident always grounded for reality check afterwards
What it does do thought Scott mate, is make life awkward for the FSW with regards to the LMA…
SAF is a genius at mind games… and this is the school playground syndrome.. its a little bit childish… but………….. it will work… as i have never seen any other manager get one over on the Govan Governor.
I am glad Fergie spoke out but he should have defended himself primarily.Rafa has been disgraceful for the comments he has made about Ferguson in the last month alone.No need to go back to the January rant.I bet you that the FSW once again says that Fergie is afraid of him.He doesn’t know what else to say anyway.
I don’t think Fergie is bothered by the mind games of FSW.
He maybe starting some with FSW now though.
I don’t see it…
Hilarious comments really! Poor fat sam Alladyce was hurt coz benitez crossed his arms as if to say the game was done when the scousers scored their second goal.
Hahaha! Diddums! Did nayone see that clueless long ball merchants team selection for that game?
The game was over before it started! Fat sam shouldve had to face questions about his dubious decisions, not what Benitez got up too.
Alladyce is Fergie’s bum chum… No surprise that they are in cahoots on this one!
Shows how rattled old fergie is about the fat Spanish Waiter dont it???
Benitez really is a laughing stock…..
Every chance he gets he tries to abuse Ferguson…..
lets be fair the guy hasn’t got that winning, never say die mentality….
Can you imagine us losing by 2 in the Champions League quarter final with 20 minutes to go and then Sir Alex taking off our top scorer as he did with Torres (to keep him fresh for the next league game which is next Tuesday)…….. I don’t…..
All they are gonna gain this season is more enemies…..
Keep FSW at the Dippers for as long as possible!!!!
Jesus Christ, how ridiculous!
Sam Allardyce is such a baby! Even though we all know FSW is whining bastard this is just too much. The evidence is hardly strong and you have to have a pretty wild imagination to draw the kind of conclusion that Fat Sam and Sir Alex does. Please Sir Alex, stop talking about FSW and let him humiliate himself through the press.
The clever part of it is that SAF now has got two allies involved in dissing FSW for him. Now the fat fuck face has to deal with three fronts, or shut the fuck up.
I’m not sure he is fighting anyone else’s battles for them. He is using other people’s battles for his own purposes i.e. to prickle Benitez. In the league Man U have the advantage over Liverpool, but with the FA cup and Europe to focus on as well, there is only one game slippage space between them and Liverpool’s calander is a lot emptier. Things are a lot tighter than many people imagine.
Not to mention it relieves the pressure from our players. It’s one thing to lose by a ’small club’ another by a serious one.
Did he really need to say this, He basically doin wat the FSW did in january and we were all laughin at him now i bet the scousers think rafa has gone under his skin
why was he bringin up FSW said like years ago and didnt apologise for sayin that
after all he is a FSW, no class
Fergie’s so called mind games only work on the lazy hacks and a few United fans…
Ive read this site for months now, maybe longer – only in passing as I am a Liverpool fan (or bin dipping murderer or whatever it is you irish people fancy throwing at me). I came today because as soon as I read that Fergie had come back at Benitez, i knew there would be a post here about it. Over the last few months, the amount of posts this site has had about Liverpool is frankly just as embarassing as the utter drivel BOTH of our managers are spouting. At least this time scott sees some sense and agrees that Fergie should just shut up rather than fighting the battles of someone who 99% of fans in the league think is a total cunt – ie, allardyce. If you want someone showing “contempt” what about allardyce comments in the paper the day before we shit all over them saying how Benitez likes a good moan? Its probably true that, but then so is the fact that at 2 nil the game was over as Blackburn are shite.
I for one, and I hope that we can see through our differences here as fans of opposition teams, hope you would all agree with me to say that I wish BOTH Ferguson AND Benitez would shut the fuck up and stop both acting like children. Its really getting embarassing now and anyone who thinks it has a huge effect on games is as big a moron. The fact of the matter is this, above all this psychologcal CRAP that both managers seem to want to come out with, the best team will win the league. That looks like its going to be you this year again, as many others. This is because you have the best team of players – NOT because of what he said to him, or ooooh what he said to him.
Its this kind of crap, and the CONSTANT reporting of it on your sites and ours, that drives me absolutely spare. Football is NOT ABOUT THIS SHIT. Scott do us all a favour – stop reporting on it…stop making it an issue – ive posted Liverpool forums to do the same. If we all start just forgetting about this kind of stupidity then maybe they will. And please dont say its always been a part of football – so has racism, and thats not exactly great is it.
Feel free to now tell me to fuck off reading your site and stuff (and if you stopped posting about MY TEAM, I am sure I would).
Stu (Woolton, Liverpool).
Stu i am with you that it has become nonsense.Rafa started it but i don’t know if that’s relevant anymore.I truly feel that the FA should have taken charge the minute it started.Now it’s out if control.I do wish that the blogs and forums kept a different approach about this.
I agree Stu, it is all a bit futile and demeaning, although it can also be quite funny in a childish kind of way. At least I normally have a laugh over it with my dipper friends, shortly before we tell each other to f**k off. .
Everyone knows Benitez is a fucking idiot.
Love the comments about it on Youtube. lol.
Fergie you are a legend! keep it up its so funny!
Funny and funny, mister..
Actually one of the things that I reacted to, was that he mentioned that Rafa had called Everton a “small” club a couple of seasons ago, and said that this was not worthy of a PL- manager… But… But… Didn`t Fergie do the same to Man City earlier this season, I`m almost sure that he did. And if that is true, and Rafa mentions that on a press conference, Fergie will lose yet another “Was of Words” against Rafa.
One question..
Is there anybody else around here that thinks Fergie is beginning to get a little slow…..?
And about that “gesture” that Rafa supposedly did against Big SAM, I have seen it over and over again, but the only thing I can see is that FSW smiles and pulls his shoulders up, nothing unnatural about that. I guess if Big SAM had his will Fergie would have been suspended from even watching football for the rest of his life as he celebrates ten times as hard as Rafa does when his team scores…
Does anyone know what team Allardyce really supports, it is actually possible we have another manc in our hands…
gripper,
they have also worked on countless managers..
have you seen the size of his trophy haul? its a lot bigger than that kiddie fiddler you have… what is it 5 years without a trophy.
I’ve just twigged what’s going on, and forgive me if I’ve been a bit slow. Fergie has very nicely taken all the scrutiny off his players, off the FA Cup, off the Champs Lge, and put it straight back on FSW. Love it.
Didn’t the small club take out liverpool then?
Giles some might say that Beneathus was doing the same thing for his players during his January rant.This will never end.Allardyce did speak for himself so i would think that’s enough.Want to bet that before his match against Arsenal, the FSW will come to the press conference with “FACTS” about Sam Allardyce and how many points he has taken off us?
Wish Sir Alex had not said owt. Cue the numerous dippers coming on here stating “Fergie has lost it” “He is cracking up” and “Rafa has got to him”………………………………. .
You’re probably right, it would have been better if he said nothing.
Had to pop out for twenty minutes and put talk sport on. Talk about whipping the ABU’s into a frenzy. It is a fuckin disgrace. Fat cunt Kelly coming out with things such as “Fergie (Sir to you ya twat) is such a hypocrite” and “Fergie needs a slapping” . What the fuck? They were loving it when the arrogant Waiter came out with his “rant”. When the tables are turned however they don’t like it. What about FSW ’s comment about not been able to understand Sir Alex. Never even mentioned. We have GOT to make sure we don’t slip up and shove it the dippers and the disgraceful ABU media. When we do lift the trophy in May it will be so so sweet. Cunts.
Nobody’s getting this. Fergie started this argument to try and kill the talk of Mike Riley having a pro-United bias. He’s had six days to talk about this since it happened but he hasn’t said a thing and for good reason. No doubt he likes Allardyce and no doubt he does care but Sir Alex chose this moment because he wanted the press to talk about something other than the ref being in our pocket.
Imagine the alternative? Riley wakes up for three days in a row with all the papers saying he’s in our pocket. Do you think we’d get any decisions go our way come Sunday unless they were absolutely unquestionable? Cos of Fergie Riley will wake up tomorrow morning and not have to read journo’s telling him to be impartial when we play Everton. Once again the master picks his moment…
United4eva – Good call. Faith restored!
United4eva, good you look at Fergies rant positive, I really can`t…
What’s Sir Alex starting all this for, Were not even playing those lot and he’s going on about them again. He should keep quiet now cos even the media has noticed he’s rattled. Seen what their manager has done and I can’t see what all the fuss is about. As for comments about Everton that was about three years ago. Start to concentrate on our own team rather than winding others up as I feel this time we could come unstuck and imagine the media frenzy then which could possibly see Sir Alex jack it all in.
I think Rafa’s the best manager around.
What do you think red fans?