Making sense of Rafa’s dilemma

IN the often senseless and always ruthless world of football it came as no great surprise.

Even so the heart sank when the words ‘sack’ and ‘Rafael Benitez’ were trotted out in the same sentence just 152 days after Steven Gerrard held aloft the Champions League trophy in Istanbul following one of the most spectacular comebacks in living memory.

The sentiment was aired on one of those post-match phone-ins following Liverpool’s Carling Cup defeat against Crystal Palace and should be dismissed as little more than the braying of a feeble mind.