http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ool/7996943.stm

As usual it looks like Gerrard's "Injury" was a load of bollocks... prick.

The Gerrard injury was merely a smokescreen used by Rafa to rest him at the weekend. If it had gone pearshaped at the weekend Rafa knew he would have been crucified for resting him but with an injury he had the perfect excuse.

This one was as predictable as the sun rising in the east. It was obvious when Rafa started flapping his chubby gums about how Gerrard was winning the battle for fitness that he was gonna hold back on him

Well Gerrard isn't playing tonight so apparently it wasn't bollocks or a smokescreen. He really is injured

Either that or Benitez won't risk him as he knows that if he loses him then his title charge is over. He was fit enough to be on the bench at the weekend, fit enough to train yesterday but not fit enough for tonight. I don't buy it - this is all about priorities.

Exactly. And the smokescreen can be a convenient excuse at the end of the year when/if they dont win the league. Resting players and still failing to win it is less honorable than his half cocked b.s. excuses