The Importance of Protesting Against Rafa

There has been plenty of talk in the press about the way that Chelsea fans are showing their displeasure towards Benitez. They are saying these things as if Chelsea fans are the first fans to ever make their feelings felt about something going on at their club. Chelsea fans always believe that there is bias against them and their club in the media and that is wholly justified and at the same time the media journalists would swear blind that there isn't but how many times have we seen other fans applauded for their protests at how their club is being run and decisions that are being made yet Chelsea fans are wholly wrong for what they are doing?

People looking in will maybe think what have Chelsea fans got to moan about? Rafa is a decent manager isn't he? He isn't doing a bad job is he? Well that is very easy to say when you are not a Chelsea fan with a Chelsea fans passion to all things that happen at our club. It was no secret that Benitez was very disliked by Chelsea fans long before he was touted as a possible manager for us for many different reasons. But since he has come he has done absolutely nothing to help that, firstly he continues to not want the fans to warm to him, going so far now as to say that "proper" Chelsea fans want him to win! OK to be fair he never used the word "him" in what he said and the media did a nice bit of spin on that one but i think it is fair to say that the implication was there. Then there is the results, Rafa was brought in to improve the position of the team but the stats bear out that DiMatteo had a better win percentage when he left than Rafa does now and we have seen the distance between us and the Manchester clubs significantly widen since the arrival of Benitez not to mention the poor performance in the Club World Cup and the real possibility of being dumped out the League Cup by Swansea.

We have seen Stamford Bridge become somewhere where clubs will come and feel confident of getting a result no matter who they are. Rafa has pointed to the fact that teams will set up to frustrate us at home and that is why we are finding it difficult. Well surely any decent manager having picked up on that would have tried to find a way to combat it but clearly that is above Benitez's capability. During the games we have also seen his flaws as a manager, given our squad anybody can pick 11 players and put them out to win a game, but when things have got tough we have seen he is totally unable to do anything to turn a game around, like for like substitutions and an inability to change the make up of the team to make things happen and that is not to mention that he seems to not fancy one of the most talented players in World football Oscar and seems determined to alienate him from the team and make him unhappy.

With all this in mind it is very important that we keep getting across our message that Benitez is not wanted here. That has been added to by the news yesterday that Pep Guardiola is joining Bayern Munich is the summer. We all know how Roman and the board look at manager appointments, they want big names, the 2 times they have gone with managers with less experience things ended pretty quickly and Guardiola was the name most touted to come in the summer. As much as every Chelsea fan would want it to happen i think it is still a little hopeful to expect Jose Mourinho to turn up in the summer so who does that leave for the club to turn to?

What we do not want is for Benitez to be here beyond the end of the season, at the moment we see him tagged as "interim" manager, that is how we want it to stay. We need to make it clear that under no circumstances do we want him here so when it comes to the summer and they are struggling to find a name to come in and manage us we want them to know that it would be a disaster in club/fan relationship to keep Benitez on as manager no matter what the circumstances.

It may come across as ungrateful and childish to the media and other fans but who are they to tell us how to feel about the club we love so much? All we can hope is that the club have some sort of master plan in place for the summer and it isn't as it looks that they have scared off any decent manager of coming to club and are left with Benitez to carry on with his step by step destruction of the club.

So, all together now.... "We don't care about Rafa......"