Fans give Rafa a roasting but Chelsea hold City

Chelsea 0 Manchester City 0

On the face of it a 0-0 draw against the champions is not a bad result with which to begin a new job, especially when the team you are leading had failed to keep a clean sheet in 10 previous matches and recently suffered a 3-0 defeat at Juventus in a miserable Champions League campaign.

But Benitez is no normal manager in these parts, having made himself such an enemy during his time with Liverpool; and Chelsea, as we all know, is no normal club.