Chelsea manager Rafa Benitez's best press conference rants condensed in to a single minute: fact

Chelsea manager Rafa Benitez's best press conference rants condensed in to a single minute: fact

Rafa Benitez's extraordinary outburst against Chelsea's fans and owner was not the first time he had enlivened the usually prosaic art of the football press conference.

Following a routine victory over Middlesborough in the FA Cup Bentiez, who has been booed at every game since he took over as Chelsea's interim manager last year, cracked, letting rip on his tormentors and laying the blame at the door of the club's heierachy.

“There is a group of fans who are not doing any favours for the team,” said Benítez, his face flushed with anger.

"They are singing about me and wasting time making banners because somebody made a mistake and put an interim in front of my title as manager. I will leave at the end of the season so why waste time on me?

“Everybody is an interim manager because after you comes another one. Why put interim? It’s just to say to everyone, he was at Liverpool, he’s just interim.

“I’ve said it, I can’t change the title or the perceptions, it doesn’t matter now."

It isn't the first time Benitez has let his feelings do the talking in front of a microphone.

He famously told us all about the 'facts' of life when in charge of Liverpool, reading off notes he took in to a press conference, with Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and the Premier League is targets on that occasion.

Similarly, when in charge of Inter Milan he effectively handed in a public resignation letter during the Club World Cup, attacking the club's owners, including an almost Mourinho-like phrase about what a bottle of milk looks like...