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last modified Mar 17, 2005 at 0:17
Dear Mr. Benitez,
I have been meaning to write this letter to you since the Liverpool-Portsmouth game two weeks ago. I believe that if I didn’t write this letter I will get into a rage and when I am in a rage, I will curse and throw insults at you and in turn will lessen my pahala puasa.
Really sir, for someone so smart you can be stupid sometimes. I am not sure you know what you are doing anymore with my beloved team. As a person born under the sign of Pisces, I am ruled by my emotions which sometimes brought me into trouble but what is your excuse. I don’t think you are a Pisces. No Pisces can be this stupid.
Perhaps you are ruled by your huge ego which is why you continue on to stick with your half baked plan of rotation. Hello! Liverpool don’t have enough quality players for you to have a rotation in the first place. I cant believe the reason you gave after that stupid draw with Birmingham City last Saturday. Did you know that I only pray 8 rakaat tarawih instead of 21 on that day just because I wanted to watch the game and what a stupid game it was.
How could you say that quote” I have four strikers, I must play all of them…” . What the hell? I cant be believe you can be this stupid. Rationally speaking, if I am the manager and I just bought a record breaking 25 million pound super striker who is a goal machine, I will never ever leave him on the bench like you did over the last two games. This is Fernando “El Nino” Torres we are talking about. The never say die attitude that the kid possess couple with skills and pace that we have witnessed so far would have convinced anyone with half a brain in his or her head that Torres should be there on the field for full 90 minutes.
And if you know how to do your calculation, you must have realized that Torres has scored three goals in the premiership while the bloody Dirk Kuyt has not scored a bloody goal so far this season and yet you put Torres on the bench and played Kuyt for 90 minutes. Kau ni bangang ke apa? Ya Allah! Sabarkanlah aku ni.
If I am the manager, I would think that my best striker will be the bench mark for the other three strikers. It is the other three strikers who have to compete for a place on the field and not your best striker. I have had it with you. I don’t know how to get rid of this frustration of watching you destroying my beloved team just to feed your ego and what a huge ego it was. You think your decision is correct but we the fans knew better. We are not blind or stupid. We can see how poor Liverpool played last Saturday. Letting Torres came in 20 minutes before the final whistle is the ultimate insult to the player, in my humble opinion. Even though we can see that in such a short time, he made an impact to the team but he was not a superhero. You know football is a game of chance. If you let him played for full 90 minutes, he would probably have scored. But because of your stupid ego, we would never know would we?
And why the hell did you take out Ryan Babel instead of the useless Dirk Kuyt? Why????? He was the most lively and creative player on the field and you took him out. You brought in two other strikers and you took out the only player who could feed the strikers well. What’s wrong with you? Do you think people like us watch football just for the sake of watching, is that it? Do you think that we, the lowly fans don’t think about formation, strategy and tactic when we watched our team played. You maybe the person whose opinion matters the most to the players and the shareholders but that doesn’t mean that you are always correct.
You know what sir, you have Liverpool started the season running but now instead of increasing the speed you went back to crawling, if I may say. Please just look at Arsenal and Man United and learn from them. You give all of us fans a false security and false hope that Liverpool will be a force to reckon with this season in the domestic league.
And Sir, I don’t give a damn if you managed to make Liverpool win 10 Champions league titles because it wont mean a thing if you couldn’t even win in your own league. Do you think people will respect Liverpool more if we win another Champions league? Well, you are wrong sir, deadly wrong.
There are times I felt like abandoning this team that I love so much. Out of frustration last Saturday, I lashed out to just about anybody who sat beside me during the game, did you know that?
I don’t know what else I can write in this letter that will make a difference but I am sure my rant won’t even make a dent in your huge ego. Let me tell you one thing, you are expandable. Just ask Mourinho and he will tell you. Shouldn’t you think that the game is far more important than your ego?
So Liverpool has a beautiful history but the history is running out already. Nobody cares that Liverpool had won the most premiere league titles in the English league anymore. All the Liverpool fans care about is for Liverpool to create a new history. A new beginning fill with success and beautiful games but I guess that will remain a wishful thinking.
So, sir, please, please, get rid of the goatee and the ego. I guess that is all for now. I would love to talk more about this matter but I am afraid it is just a waste of my time. Before I conclude, I want to share with you a quote from my favourite French author, Francois de La Rochefoucauld who once said “Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Sincerely yours,
Sitinesta
lima tahun zal jadi teman sebilik aku, sekali pun dia tak pernah berjaya pujuk aku ikut dia pergi trekking, panjat gunung tak pun teroka gua. selalunya ada aje alasan yang aku bagi. dah dua tahun dia kahwin. hari tu aku telefon dia kata dah tak aktif macam dulu. sigh!
aku rasa tahun ni, aku banyak enjoy benda-benda baru. treasure hunts ajer, dah tiga kali aku pergi dan semuanya dengan orang yang berlainan. ya aku sudah lebih terbuka untuk mengumpul kawan-kawan baru. aktiviti treasure hunt ni bawak aku sampai ke negeri sembilan, melaka, johor baharu, perak dan putrajaya. tapi team aku selalunya bukan serious hunters, kita orang lebih pada nak enjoy the trip sambil menguji minda. walaupun tak dapat nombor satu tapi kita orang selalunya dalam top tenlah jugak. haha...setakat ni, aku dapat hadiah handphone, rice cooker, blender, seterika dan vacum cleaner. oklah tu kan. hehehe...
bulan november ni ada satu lagi. katanya ke terengganu. insyaallah, aku akan join yang itu jugak.
dah jauh aku menyimpang ni. sebenarnya aku nak cakap pasal aktiviti eko. lepas terkena gigitan sungai kampar bulan lepas, siang malam aku asyik teringat nak pergi white water rafting lagi. satu ofis ni semua tahu aku dah gian dengan aktiviti lasak tu.
dalam masa yang sama, aku pun dah gian nak mendekatkan diri dengan alam lagi. kebetulan pulak seminggu sebelum puasa kawan aku ajak ikut konvoi 4 wheel drive ke sungai lembing. seronok bukan main lagi aku. kesian the muse, terpaksa aku tolak ajakan dia untuk berkelah kat kuala selangor.
berkobar-kobar betul aku bangun pagi sabtu tu. bila kawan aku datang jemput dengan ford ranger dia, aku rasa macam cool aje naik 4wd tu. hahaha...perasan. perjalanan ke sungai lembing memang best. pemandangan hijau yang indah dan mendamaikan mengiringi kami sepanjang perjalanan. dalam kenderaan, kita orang menyanyi, mengutuk kerajaan dan macam-macam lagilah. hehehe...
sungai lembing kalau korang tahu sejarahnya memang menarik. suasana kat situ macam tak pernah berubah sejak berpuluh tahun dulu. sungai lembing dulu kaya raya sebab ada bijih timah. sayangnya, tentera jepun telah memusnahkan industri bijih timah kat situ. tuan baker yang menjaga sungai lembing dulu dikatakan melarikan diri ke dalam hutan dan died of broken heart. yalah, dia dah berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan bertahun-tahun membangunkan bandar sungai lembing tu tiba-tiba dimusnahkan jepun dalam sekelip mata. mana tak patah hati kawan tu.
kalau tengok balai polis sungai lembing masih lagi berdindingkan papan, berciri-cirikan senibina melayu. macam tengok balai polis bukit kepong aje aku rasa.
dari bandar sungai lembing yang sepi tu, kita orang mula bertolak untuk trip offroad. perjalanan ke tempat camping kita orang taklah berapa teruk sangat. tak perlu membina jambatan dan tiada 4wd yang tersekat dalam tanah liat. aku memang rasa teruja sangat masa 4wd kita orang menyeberangi sungai cetek yang penuh batu-batuan tu. rasa macam berada dalam washing machine pun ada jugak bila 4wd tu terenjut-renjut untuk sampai ke seberang sungai.
masa sampai kat tempat camping tu, dah pukul empat lebih. masing-masing pilih port yang best untuk buat khemah. group aku dua lelaki, dua perempuan. bila kawan aku, si zalin ni cakap yang kita orang akan berkhemah, aku bayangkan yang aku akan tidur di dalam khemah kecil yang tertutup dengan dia. rupa-rupanya konsepnya bukan macam tu. dia orang buat atap khemah aje tapi tidur atas camp bed dan tidurlah telentang telangkup kat situ campur-campur. termenung aku sekejap. jiran kita orang pulak satu group lelaki dan kena pulak kongsi khemah tu dengan mamat-mamat tu. lagilah aku termenung. nasib baik zalin bawak sleeping bag, bolehlah aku selubung dalam tu.
sitinesta was here
pasal makan, takde masalah sebab organiser yang masakkan. campsite kita orang tu tepi sungai dan memang open gila. aku dah panik bila fikir macam mana nak answer nature's call. ah, sudah! mandi sungai tu aku tak kisah sangat tapi bab nak tukar baju tu kat mana? tak keruan aku dibuatnya. zalin tu dia memang selamba dan dah biasa ikut trip-trip macam ni.
nasib baik camping semalam aje, aku tak rasa aku boleh survive camping in the open macam ni. nak jaga aurat tu yang susahnya. memang seksa sangat masa nak tukar baju. si zalin pulak pecah-pecah perut ketawakan aku. tak guna betul dia. esoknya tu, memang aku tak mandi sampai balik KL. lantaklah apa dia orang nak kata. tapi aktiviti masa hari kedua best sangat bila organiser adakan mock challenge untuk group yang berminat. lepas habis challenge tu kita orang makan tengahari dan bersiap-siap untuk bertolak balik.
dia orang tanya aku berminat tak nak join lagi aktiviti macam ni. entahlah, aku belum ada jawapannya tapi hati ni meronta-ronta nak sertai another adventure. hahaha...pengalaman offroad trip, 4 wheel drive aku sebenarnya mild ajer tapi ia sesuatu yang baru buat aku. yalah orang kata it's the journey yang importantkan. aku kenal banyak orang baru dan berjumpa "seseorang" yang cool tapi seperti biasa, minat itu akan hanya aku simpan dalam hati. sigh!!!
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Ovid
the muse kata, aku ni late bloomer. aku sebenarnya susah nak mulakan sesuatu tapi bila dah mula, kalau aku suka, memang susah nak stop. aku akan jadi passionate tentang benda tu. kalau bahasa pasarnya, aku akan jadi poyo. itulah sebabnya aku tak boleh nak control keinginan aku untuk aktif dalam aktiviti eko ni. satu hari nanti aku akan cuba jugak benda-benda lain macam rock climbing, teroka gua atau abseiling tapi white water rafting tetap nombor satulah kan. maaflah zalin, panjat gunung belum lagi, aku tak sanggup. tapi aku akan pergi jugak air terjun pelangi tu walau pun kau kata kena trekking berjam-jam. aku mesti pergi, aku nak tengok sendiri pelangi di air terjun macam yang kau dan mr cool cakapkan tu. ;-)
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