Rafa Benítez (now unemployed)

[Kaizero]

beep beep here comes Rafa to take 3 points bitch.

 

 

Don't know why, but the "beep beep" killed me

[Shearergol]

beep beep here comes Rafa to take 3 points bitch.

 

 

Don't know why, but the "beep beep" killed me

 

Same. Love it.

[Mr Logic]

Another Chronicle article -

 

Former Liverpool defender John Arne Riise has described Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez as the best manager he played under.

The former Norway international played under Benitez at Liverpool, winning the Champions League and the FA Cup before joining Roma in 2009.

Nowadays, the 37-year-old works as an agent and he was appearing as a guest on Sky Sports’ Goals on Sunday.

 

And when analysing Newcastle’s 2-1 win over Leicester, Riise gave an insight into what it was like working under Benitez.

Benitez is consistently praised for his tactical awareness but one thing he isn’t always given credit for is his man-management.

Liverpool legends Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher have both spoken about how Benitez wasn’t necessarily as personable as other Liverpool managers they worked under, despite being the man who brought their most notable successes.

 

Newcastle’s Jack Colback has been critical of the way he approached his exit from the club, suggesting he was ‘just a number’ to Benitez.

But Riise offered a contrary argument, revealing he could call Benitez ‘any time’ and that ‘his door was always open’ to help players improve their game.

 

“He is brilliant. I always say he is the best manager I played under,” Riise told presenters Ben Shephard and Chris Kamara.

He obviously gave me my best moments as a player but his tactics. He was always on the pitch on the training ground going through tactics.

We had 40 minutes of tactics every day and he was always there. He was dragging players here and telling other players they should be there.

He was always talking to players. His door was always open, you could call him any time at night to speak to him if you had some questions.

He is a manager who gets the best out of his players and as a player you want to work for him and play for him.”

 

Newcastle’s 2-1 win over Leicester lifted the Magpies into the top half of the Premier League table - 10 points clear of the relegation zone with six games remaining.

 

Their 2018 form has been superb but more importantly for Newcastle fans, their effort levels have never been in question.

Newcastle fans have pined for a team that tries, and Saturday’s sequence of seven 50-50 challenges in succession emphasised to the Toon Army that in Benitez’s current side, they have just that.

And it was something that caught Riise’s eye and something he was renowned for during his playing days.

 

“As a player, I didn’t have the skills like a Ronaldo or a Messi who can dribble,” Riise added.

“I was just putting in hard work, giving 100 per cent and that is what the fans want. As long as they know you will give 100 per cent they will support you.”

[xLiaaamx]

Jack Colback says he's just a number but Hayden literally has to hide in his car to avoid an hour long football discussion with him when going home 

[Billy Pilgrim]

We can win something if that fat bellend gives him some money or fucks off before Rafa goes.

[mrmojorisin75]

Jack Colbacks number is zero. Fuck off.

[DJ_NUFC]

Colback

[Darth Crooks]

Lucky to be a number you sputem

[Dave]

beep beep here comes Rafa to take 3 points bitch.

 

 

 

 

 

:lol:

[Jimburst]

Genius.

[54]

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Why is everyone doing that ?s=19 thing after their posts recently? Something changed?

[Twinport53]

Why is everyone doing that. As if people are actively typing it out 

 

?s=19

[Bimpy474]

Why is everyone doing that ?s=19 thing after their posts recently? Something changed?

 

I asked earlier and Kaz explained what is was, I'm still none the wiser 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

It's an operator at the end of a link isn't it? But I don't know why it's suddenly being displayed.

[Dave]

Why is everyone asking about that ?s=19 thing after posts recently? Can't they read?

[BlueStar]

Why is everyone doing that ?s=19 thing after their posts recently? Something changed?

 

It's a superfluous part of the url he's pasted called a query string.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string

 

Whatever it's being used for by twitter or his twitter client/browser, the forum doesn't need it so it ignores it when embedding the Twitter post.  As it's left over, it just appears as text.

[Elric]

It's the new "Sent via Tapatalk".

 

?=MLF9-1ftm

[Stottie]

 

We could have won that tie. Cisse hit the post twice in the first leg, and then we gifted them two goals with a blind backpass from Santon and a braindead handball from the plastic Geordie. I doubt Pards would have beaten Rafa's Chelsea, but there you go.

[Twinport53]

Of course we could have won. If we'd for example started... erm... anybody but Bigi on the wing. And maybe let HBA and Marv have more than 3 minutes to make a difference.

[Darth Crooks]

Imagine the Pardew rhetoric now though if he'd actually won something. Doesn't bear thinking about

[54]

Imagine the Pardew rhetoric now though if he'd actually won something. Doesn't bear thinking about

Tbf if we won something I wouldn't really give a crap

[xLiaaamx]

And to be fair, Pardew's Newcastle team did beat Rafa's Chelsea one. No reason we couldn't have won that tournament. He prioritised the Sunderland game and still lost it.

[summerof69]

If Pardew had won something he'd still be here and we'd be playing Sunderland next season in league one

[joeyt]

And to be fair, Pardew's Newcastle team did beat Rafa's Chelsea one. No reason we couldn't have won that tournament. He prioritised the Sunderland game and still lost it.

In the space of 2 weeks we managed to get knocked out of the Europa League and lose 0-3 and 0-6 to Sunderland and Liverpool respectively.  Great times