disaster

Another season over and done with. I said last August that this year was gonna be a disaster. And I've, sadly, been proved right.

Forget this game. This is the tip of the iceberg. Good luck to both Fulham and Athletico Madrid in the final. They deserve it.

I've spent the last nine months blaming the sale of Alonso, blaming the use of two defensive midfielders, blaming the lone striker policy, when really the architect of this miserable end to a miserable season is Rafa Benitez.

What Rafa should've done was resigned after Istanbul. He'd have gone down a legend. Now, he'll be remembered as a leg-end.

I say "remembered" in the past tense. Because how the hell can Benitez be given yet another season to fart us about using his own special brand of bizarre humiliation. For me. For Mum. For our Mick. For everyone.

There's a misguided group of fans who call themselves the "Sons Of Shankly". They have been very vocal and determined to get the Yanks out of Liverpool Football Club. They failed. The Yanks decided to shut up shop. But these supporters have been the nucleus of support for Benitez during the last year or so.

To suggest Benitez hasn't been amply supplied with financial backing from the Americans would be a lie. But nobody's squandered transfer funds in the way Rafa has. He proved at Valencia that he could get success without a massive cash-layout. At Liverpool, he's had riches at his disposal beyond his wildest dreams. Save for a handful of notable exceptions, more so in recent times, his buys have been piss-poor.

He doesn't deserve his crack at the Juventus job. But wherever Rafa goes, he deserves to take his awful backroom staff with him. Because to Liverpool Football Club, he's screwed us so, so badly.

Jose Mourinho - our door is open......