To listen to Rafa Benitez, you wouldn't think that he is a man either under pressure or almost completely unwanted.

As he almost jauntily walks into the Cobham media room, he has a massive smile spread across his face and jokes about the sheer yellowness of a rather garish training top. Then, when a journalist's phone rings, Benitez laughs that, if it's the wife, he should definitely take the call; that it wouldn't be worth the grief otherwise.

Many, of course, would say the ...

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