Sweet FA for Rafa?

The news that Rafa Benitez intends to seek an “audience” with Referee’s chief Keith Hackett over The Maschernao sending off incident made me shake my head.

Personally I think Rafa’s time would be more constructively spent preparing for Sunday’s game against Everton rather than concerning himself with distractions or fights he simply will not win.

Rightly or wrongly, the latter in my view, the dice of opinion has already been cast and it isn’t in favour of Xavier Mascherano. Keith Hackett and his cronies are hardly likely to go against the tide of opinion. They