Rafington’s Bitter

22 Comments

1. May 21, 2009 at 15:13

   costas says:

   Enjoyed in Manchester.

   Damn right! And we can enjoy Rafington’s Bitter for 5 more years!
2. May 21, 2009 at 15:13

   Paul the red says:

   beauty
3. May 21, 2009 at 15:20

   Giles Oakley says:

   I’ll drink to that, good to the last drop, leaves a lovely taste in the mouth.
4. May 21, 2009 at 15:22

   manufan32 says:

   lol…………………
   i wonder if he checks the blog himself….
   just imagine his face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   lol
5. May 21, 2009 at 15:25

   gotta hate tiny tears and co. says:

   left click
   scroll down
   set as desktop backround
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDOWztrFZ6E
6. May 21, 2009 at 15:26

   OTRed says:

   Lol, this is even better than the John Terry vodka banner.
7. May 21, 2009 at 15:33

   jsos says:

   I want the shirt!!!!!
8. May 21, 2009 at 16:02

   sirryangiggs says:

   this really interesting article in my local papers today.

   Give Rafa the mike and have a laugh
   By Neil Humphreys, Lighter side

   RAFAEL Benitez must be a sports commentator when he eventually gives up his position as schizophrenic manager of Liverpool.

   He would make less sense than Carlos Tevez during a post-match interview, but therein lies the entertainment.

   Benitez cannot (or refuses to) see the nose at the end of his face, and the goatee beard is only partially to blame.

   According to the Spanish sage, Manchester United cannot be considered the best team in the English Premier League simply because they have the most points.

   That involves a certain kind of logic and Benitez does not do logic.

   He bought Peter Crouch and Robbie Keane, realised that they did not fit his predetermined pattern of play and sold them both.

   So logic and Benitez go together like Keane and Fernando Torres up front.

   Pundits have criticised Benitez for his lack of sportsmanship. But I say, give this man a microphone and let’s savour some of the daftest comments since the late Brian Clough.

   Get him on cricket first to set the ball rolling. In Benitez’s world, Australia won the last Ashes series 5-0, but that does not necessarily make them the better cricket team.

   England look better in their whites.

   Jenson Button might be leading the Formula One title race, but he is only separated from the other drivers by mere points. What kind of yardstick is that?

   Someone like, say, Mark Webber could be a superior driver. The Australian may have more chance of standing on a podium with Kylie Minogue hanging around his neck than a title-winning wreath, but anything is possible in Rafa land.

   For Benitez, points are rather like Tottenham’s Ledley King after a night on the beer – they have their use in football but they will never tell the whole story.

   When asked last weekend to pick the season’s best team, Benitez said: ‘If United have more points, it only means they have more points, that’s all, nothing else.’

   At the risk of sounding pernickety, United’s extra points also mean they have won a third title in a row and a record-equalling 18 championships, but that counts for nothing in the Anfield boot room.

   After United had picked up another of those trifling points against Arsenal to win the title, Benitez snapped: ‘I’ll say ‘well done’ to Manchester United – but not to anybody else.

   ‘I try to be polite and respectful to my fellow managers… But I saw some things and I heard some things that I did not like.’

   As undignified displays of poor sportsmanship go, his outburst is up there with a petulant Martina Hingis serving underarm to Steffi Graf in the 1999 French Open final.

   By the end of the match, the defeated Hingis was stamping her feet and calling for her mummy to change her diaper.

   No such tantrums from Benitez. He just refused to mention Sir Alex Ferguson’s name.

   It was not clear whether Benitez was so irate he could not bring himself to utter the United manager’s name, or was secretly playing the board game Taboo.

   In Taboo, participants are given a word or phrase which they must describe for others to guess without ever saying certain taboo words.

   That’s why Benitez said things like ‘fellow managers… I did not like… Manchester United’.

   He was playing Taboo with the journalists.

   He described the Old Trafford legend and the reporters shouted back: ‘Sir Alex Ferguson.’

   Only now does the warped logic begin to make sense. It isn’t just about the points’ total.

   Ferguson might have won the EPL battle, but Benitez won the game of Taboo.

   stsports@sph.com.sg
9. May 21, 2009 at 16:09

   sirryangiggs says:

   sorry guys didnt realise its gonna take up so much space
10. May 21, 2009 at 16:22

    dominick says:

    Bitter “Est’d 2009″? – surely our Waiter has been bitter for far longer!

    Sing up for the champions.

    cheers//dom
11. May 21, 2009 at 16:51

    rc7 says:

    I’m going to enjoy a nice pint of it with my paella.
    Seriously, the guy is becoming more mental and obsessive by the day, every interview he gives now is finished by the sentence “……and Man Utd have more money”
12. May 21, 2009 at 17:41

    AlphaRS says:

    Hilarious!
13. May 21, 2009 at 18:25

    pjch says:

    Love it and want one. Should make loads of beer mats as well so we can spill stuff all over him.
    No doubt he’ll tell us its made with hops from Kirby and leaves a bitter taste in the mouth
    Come on Rafa be a man and accept you and your team are second best. Thats the only fact you have to come up with
14. May 21, 2009 at 18:58

    jesbit says:

    Love it!
15. May 21, 2009 at 19:51

    wazza says:

    nice one Scott.
16. May 21, 2009 at 21:04

    corea says:

    not without some logic, Scott. thanks for the good time)))
17. May 21, 2009 at 23:14

    steamdigit says:

    i got stiffed!
    the can i got was empty! cracked the lid and it was empty! i’ve been waiting for ages for this, and it was empty! how can this be? it’s supposed to be the best beer! other beers cost more, and have more flavour, and have more points about them, but this should be the best beer, isn’t it?
    i got stiffed! it’s empty!
    what the hell, maybe NEXT YEAR i’ll get another can – sure hope it’s not empty. must be because the other beers have more points, have more flavour, and cost more to make.
    nothing to do with the manufacturer. can’t be.
    i’ll drink the other beers and admit they are good, but it has nothing to do with their manufacturers. nothing.
    and that’s a fact.

    lol ;p
18. May 21, 2009 at 23:22

    steamdigit says:

    nothing’s tasted right ever since liverpool stopped maunfacturing
    the “Kennie” – best stout they ever had!
    had some fancy Anglo-Franc blend – the “evanhoullie”
    french wine – ze “houllie” and now some spanish port and spanish bitter!

    lol
19. May 21, 2009 at 23:38

    VivaJohnTerry says:

    Liverpool, Liverpool, how did you fair?
    Ye beat us twice – but there was no trophy there.
    Dont be bitter, dont have a moan Tune in on Wednesday, and watch us in Rome.

    18 times, and thats a FACT Champions League finals, back to back.
    Ill just say one thing – Im a Scouse hater
    And you’ll never win fuck all
    .. with a Fat Spanish Waiter !!

    God bless UTD… Heres to more history next week!! COME ON LADS
20. May 22, 2009 at 13:40

    ROYTHERED says:

    class that is …anymore like that please just to piss a few more dippers off.
21. May 23, 2009 at 13:28

    eric says:

    ha ha ha super
22. May 25, 2009 at 19:33

    giggs11times says:

    Can’t believe this?! I am a graphic designer and I actually designed this very design, I posted it last week on BBC Sports’ 606, which I a member of.

    This was the original link by the way…

    http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk16/brownieman182/Rafingtons-bitter-1.gif