{"id":510,"date":"2010-11-01T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2010\/11\/01\/rafahe-wouldnt-see-a-priest-on-a-mountain-of-sugar\/"},"modified":"2017-02-09T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T16:04:05","slug":"rafahe-wouldnt-see-a-priest-on-a-mountain-of-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2010\/11\/rafahe-wouldnt-see-a-priest-on-a-mountain-of-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"RAFA:”HE WOULDN’T SEE A PRIEST ON A MOUNTAIN OF SUGAR!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rafa Benitez took a quirky, albeit, humorous swipe at his successor at Liverpool, Roy Hodgson.
\nLast week Hodgson bemoaned the number of “expensive failures” at the club.
\nBut speaking ahead of Inter’s match with Spurs, Benitez said: “He’s talking about things that he doesn’t know.”
\nRafa said that Hodgson; “Wouldn’t see a Priest on top of a mountain of sugar”!
\nThe former Reds boss was speaking at a pre-match press conference ahead of his new team Inter Milan’s visit to White Hart Lane tomorrow.
\nRafa defended his spending in his 6 years at Anfield: “I had a net spend of \u00a310 million with 13 international players in the team and the team is worth \u00a3300 million”
\nTrue enough Rafa,\u00a0but your transfer purchases were, at best, a mixture of good and bad.
\nStill, keep up the funny comments, they bring a smile to our faces!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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