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da winzada777： Real Madrid have their sights set on an 11th Champions League / European Cup success this season. And with players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale in their team, they’ll always have a fair chance of victory.Newcastle United, on the other hand, are in grave relegation danger. They are one of four teams cut adrift at the bottom of the table, and so fighting for what currently looks like one safe spot just above the relegation zone.That’s the separation shock facing Rafael Benitez over the next few weeks.
In a scene reminiscent of the finalÂminutes ofÂThe Titanic, there is but one space left on the good ship Premier League’s lifeboat. Swansea and Crystal Palace are eight points clear of the four teams below them and safely aboard the lifeboat. All that remains is one spot, being fought over by Norwich, Sunderland and Newcastle.
Remi Garde is sinking fast, but he’s starting to accept his fate and is philosophical about the whole experience, even if that is laced with a hint of resentful anger. Alex Neil is bullish, but meek; he wants to go about it the right way but his attempts so far have brought him no closer to safety. And Sam Allardyce is the big, bruising, animal who you really don’t want to be up against in this situation. He’s the guy who will push all others away to get onto that lifeboat, unscrupulously swatting the others like flies in his pursuit.
Rafael Benitez is a man with pedigree. A Champions League winner, he’s managed some of Europe’s biggest teams and been successful sometimes, other times not so much. For a team in a relegation battle, that’s not a bad coup. If the spotty guy with three kids and a mortgage he has no prospect of paying proposed to Jessica Alba, he wouldn’t expect her to say yes. It would be a coup for him, but surely a terrible deal for her!
But that’s the position Newcastle are in. More to the point, it’s the position Benitez is in. He could well find himself falling from grace with a sudden bang. Gone from Real Madrid, ending up married to Newcastle, sorting out their mess with a load of players he had no say in buying, and caught up in a dog-eat-dog world where failure matters a great deal. A down and out husband, financial insecurity and stepkids to fend for.
For Real Madrid, losing is a disaster, but let’s put that into perspective: winning the leagueÂonly really means ‘we’ll get them next year’. Failure at Newcastle this season means relegation and losses of millions of pounds with no guarantee of returning any time soon.
This is a battle for the last place on the lifeboat, something much more akin to the Hunger Games than anything else. And yet there he is settling for the hard life whilst his old flame targets Champions League glory. Has anyone ever left one club – who then went on to win the Champions League – to join another club and take them down?
All I know is that this is a coup for Newcastle, and the risk of a lifetime for Rafa. Has anyone got Jessica Alba’s number? I’m beginning to think I may have a chance….
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