Benitez is right to dismiss the press

If you were on £50k a week and had the credentials of Rafael Benitez, it would be hard to find a reason to read the British newspapers other than to defend yourself against its vicious hunter-mentality attacks on your character.

Benitez has admitted in the past that when he watches tapes of Liverpool games, he watches them on mute. Listening to Andy Gray would presumably not be a desirable experience for him whilst he attempts to analyse his team's performance; then again, I don't understand how listening to Andy Gray could be a desirable experience for anybody.

This is the attitude he carries through to print journalism. Maybe he reads the papers in the morning, but surely it is only to check whether or not there has been yet another scathing - and more importantly unjust - column written about his team, his tactics and his personality. Take, for example, 'Hatchet Man' over at the Daily Mail, a newspaper whose acrid bitterness amazingly manages to grow with each copy.

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