Give Rafa a break!

Just two defeats, and now so called Liverpool fans are calling for the head of the manager? What happened to standing by the team you support? Yes we are out of the cups, but it is NOT the end of the world!

I have been reading several different LFC/football forums, and have seen the same thing repeatedly : "Sack Rafa", or "Time for Benitez to go", and other such crap.

Are these people having a laugh? When Rafa was criticised for his rotation policy, the whole of Anfield stood up and sang his name for the duration of a whole match, and then on message boards there was nothing but support for Mr Benitez?

How many of you think Rafa was not pissed off with the carling cup game? everyone is making out like he does not care. He fielded a team he thought was capable of winning that tie. Do you honestly think he went into the dressing room and said "well in lads"? I really doubt it, the same man who immediately after the final whistle in the Champions League final went to the players individually and told them where they had gone wrong?

Some people are forgetting what he has done for this club, I know it was over a year ago since we won in Europe, but so what? 21 years was the last time we won the European cup before that. He and the team were behind wonderful nights at Anfield, including Juventus and of course Chelsea.

Then again, he gave us another important trophy, the FA Cup. Also in his time here we have been at a carling cup final (if we didnt take that competition seriously would we have got there?) we have won the community shield, and the Euro Super Cup.

Also, who has he brought in? Well first of all he must have had an influence on Gerrard staying at the club. He has brought in Alonso- would you let him go? NO. Sissoko- his work rate for team is unbelievable. Luis Garcia- as frustrating as he is sometimes, without his contribution and goals we would have not won the European cup OR the FA Cup.

He also brought Fowler back to Anfield, everyone had wanted that day for so long. Also Dirk Kuyt, Peter Crouch, Daniel Agger, Jose Reina. How many of these people would you not want in the Liverpool team?

Rafa also moved Carragher to the centre of defence, under Houllier he played as right back more often than not.

Benitez has the support of the players, when Gerrard's future was in doubt, he said "regardless of my future, Rafa will lead this club to great things". If you went into the Liverpool dressing room and said do you want a new manager, i guarantee they would all say no.

All these dickheads calling for Rafa's head, where is the sense in bringing in a new manager now? that would mean turfing more players out, bringing more new people in who are going to need time to adjust to the League.

If the proposed takeover goes ahead, we will be able to compete with the likes of Chelsea and Man United in the transfer market. But at the same time, Rafa lives for football. So many different people have said this, If you read "A season on the Brink" even his wife says she cant distract him from the game. Benitez himself says he has sleepless nights thinking about the team. This is the type of manager we want at this club! If we are to compete with the rest of the big guns, we also need the fans on the side of our manager, so stop going on, and look to the future.

We are facing Barcelona soon, if we win that game, everyone will be out saying "Rafa is the right man for the job"- He already is, we lost TWO games, so what , get over it.

Everyone wants progression, and the main place we need to progress is the league, so forget the Carling Cup, leave that for the Chavs of Chelsea to take, because they certainly cannot beat us in European competition or in the FA Cup!