Rafa, cracking up prior to the rather rigged and ragged victory over Chelsea on Sunday: "I don't know what is happening. Actually, I do know, but I can't say anything about it. It is just crazy, you can't control what you can't change. It could be like this for years. The past three years have something in common I don't like."
And the Liverpool Redsocks, with their hyperinflated sense of authority in the hyperreality that is ScudamoreWorld, are indeed dysfunctional - owners who are indebted and incommunicado, splits and dissension in the dressing room, Rafa being desirous of full control over transfer policy à la 'Arry, Stevie G hanging around criminals and attending court, and a manager who has entirely lost his strategic compass.
It was always going to take a Killer from Kipper to drag this sorry outfit to victory over an equally sorry Chelsea.
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