The buck stops with the manager, end of.
No it doesn't. Players AND manager.
Just watched it. Was in school today, so i recorded the match and stayed off all internet to watch without knowing the score.
Never. Doing. That. AGAIN!!!
How abysmal. F***ing horrible. Useless. Gutless. I just don't know what to say.
Everyone takes the blame today. Manager, players, everyone. But its equal share. Im sick of the knee-jerking blaming ALL on Rafa, and then some who say Rafa takes no cake. He should have made changes earlier. But he certainly doesn't take the burden today. Because today was the players playing like schoolgirls. Actually, worse than that. Ive seen some womans college ball thats a lot better than that!!
What i will say is this. That team Rafa put out was one that was put out to win. It was attacking. I dunno how many posts of seen about dropping Gerrard back, and it was done. We had Yossi left, Maxi right. Anyone who knows nothing of our current form but just the reputations of those players would say "Win!" and then we had Kuyt in the hole, again "Win!" Simply, it was a team that should be winning comfortably.
But alas, the missing component. HEART! FFS. I think the last time i really saw any great emotion from this team was when Hyypia played his last minutes. They all look F***ing useless. Gerrard was woeful, Kuyt was woeful, Insua was woeful, etc etc etc. F***ing unbelievable.
Rafa has made some baffling choices at times, but if this same set-up went out last season we would have battered them. Its the heart of the players that is costing us the most right now, not the manager.
I have never, ever hoped for a season to end. I hate it when i see the fixture list dwindling down. But my god, i can't wait to the summer.
Worst performance ive seen. And ive been saying that far to often this season.