The Smiling Assassin

Every week I bookmark Rafa’s pre match press conference on the sites Delicious page, yet I never actually seem to post it here and comment on it. Well, that changes today as we have clips from said press conference. The Liverpool Echo usually post the whole thing online but ITN news usually edits it down to the salient points in handy minute sized chunks.

Surprisingly, there were no bits of paper and no statements of fact this time, so instead we were left with a boring Q&A session. Though I will say one thing, Rafa clearly looks far happier during this conference than he did on Tuesday night. And given that this is probably the most important press conference he’s had to do in months, if not years, then it’s even more remarkable.

Here is from earlier in the week….

Calm, measured, relaxed. But no bits of paper and certainly no facts this time.

Hmmm, fairly to the point though as I said above, he’s clearly more relaxed than he has been for a while. Perhaps he saw Utd’s game on Wednesday evening and realised just how far they’ve fallen without Bronzed Ronnie in the team. I know I did.

Still, watching that those did make me hanker for the good old days, where facts and bits of paper were all the rage at Rafa’s press conferences. Aaah, this is more like it….