Fate Arises

This was in the paper yesterday but I've just seen it, it's an article about Rafa Benitez and Liverpool and it contains this:

In many ways, this was a hard-luck story for Rafael Benítez and his players. They had taken the lead, shown character and resolve on a night when motivation must have been a real problem and on the balance of play they did not deserve to lose. But there is an inescapable feeling that circumstances are conspiring against the Spanish manager and the downward spiral that Liverpool have been on for the last three months shows no sign of coming to an end.

If you read the whole thing you do come across a little bit of criticism of Benitez but this paragraph really does illustrate the easy ride that Liverpool/Benitez get compared to us and Sir Alex - A "hard luck story?!" "circumstances conspiring!!?" Is this a joke? Benitez hasn't done anything wrong, it's just them bloody fates. Liverpool, the unluckiest team on the planet... Oh, let's just forget that they were outplayed by Everton for long periods but still spawned a win, let's forgot Ngog's dive against Birmingham to rescue a point, let's forget everything else that's gone their way this season, sorry, sorry, every season - they're just so unlucky... If they were actually unlucky they'd be a lot lower in the league than they actually are...
Imagine an article in the paper about Sir Alex where he was given this type of easy ride... it's not actually possible to imagine it...