Benitez backs Ramos to survive

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has backed his fellow Spaniard Juande Ramos to keep his job at Tottenham despite the London club making their worst ever start to a league season.

The Liverpool chief, whose team play Tottenham at White Hart Lane in the Premier League on November 1 and the Carling Cup on November 12, today offered words of support for the under-fire former Sevilla chief.