Benitez should swot up on lessons of '89 to beat Arsenal

IT MIGHT be tempting to see Rafael Benitez as football's Don Quixote, tilting with good-humoured futility against the windmills of the Premier League's top three. His personality though may be more reminiscent of the Don's tubby sidekick, Sancho Panza, deliverer of mordant aphorisms called sanchismos.

Here's a couple for Rafa to chew over. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," and "Thomas charging through the middle, it's up for grabs now." The first was coined by Benitez's compatriot, the philosopher George ...