“We would hope that Rafa Benitez will retain the integrity of the Premier League with his squad selection.” Last year it was Neil Warnock blaming Rafa for his own team’s complete shiteness, and this year it’s another ignorant douche, Gary Megson, expecting Liverpool to do him a favour. Well bollocks to Gary Megson, and bollocks to Bolton. It doesn’t matter what we do, if Bolton want to stay up then they need to concentrate on winning their remaining games. If that isnt enough, they need to look at what they did in their previous 32 games, as that’s the reason they’ll have been relegated. Rafa Benitez’s team selection at Fulham is completely irrelevant, just as it was last season.
Another reason to be pissed off with Megson, is that his comments have allowed that other coackroach, Neil Warnock, to crawl out from his hole to have another moan about Rafa. “I felt physically sick when I saw the team he’d picked at Fulham.” He just won’t let it go will he? He claims not have heard of several of the team Rafa picked at Craven Cottage last season. That says more about him than it does us. Sheffield United were relegated because they couldn’t beat Wigan at home on the final day. In other words, it was their own fucking fault.
Just like it will be Bolton’s own fault if they go down. If Rafa fields a weakened side and loses at Fulham, tough shit. Does Megson seriously think we should play Torres and Gerrard at Craven Cottage, just four days before a Champions eague semi final against Chelsea? Seriously, does he? I’d love to know. Especially as this is the man who rested nine of his first team when Bolton went to Lisbon to play a UEFA Cup tie that was in the balance after the first leg. Why did he do that? Because he felt their next game was more important. So who the fuck is he to tell Rafa how to do his job?
Gary Megson was such a shit footballer that he played for Everton, and not at a time when they were any good either. He’s probably even worse as a manager, and Bolton were doomed from the moment they appointed him. It’s almost enough to want us to lose at Fulham, just to see his face. Of course that’s not what I want to happen. Ideally I want to see Rafa rest everybody, but for us to win with a weakened side whilst Bolton lose.
In fact, if I were Rafa I wouldn’t even bother turning up at Fulham. I’d get all the squad for the Chelsea game together, and have them train at Melwood this weekend and I’d send Gary Ablett and his lads up to Craven Cottage. It’d be worth any Premier League fine just to see the look on Megson’s face.