They've had a few performance like that this season. Top of the league and just when you expect them to pull away, they trip themselves up with a strange looking result.
We know the feeling. Multiple times over. The Reading jinx struck again in midweek. Then the Fulham one at the weekend. Somehow he's turned a comfortable lead into a goal difference advantage. Not the first time this season either.
Meanwhile, one of the heroes of Istanbul, and another unfortunate victim of his many fallouts down the years, Xabi Alonso announced his retirement this week. Another hero of Istanbul, Jamie Carragher, paid a detailed tribute to him at the weekend, while berating Benitez, as I did, for trying to have him sold, and letting him go when we didn't have to, the year after. But the then European Champion was not considered as essential to the team as Gareth Barry.
In the years since, Barry has gone across the road, while Xabi has won multiple honours at club and international level across the world. So it's clear who was the better option.
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