Good post, and I agree with most of it, especially about the first section of the post, about the manager, who I think is a very negative manager, and as you have point out, how he has dealt with players substitution which was awful, each replacement was cancelling each other, absolutely pointless, he ought to have put Keane in central forward position rather than trying him out on the left wing!!, and should have used El Zahar, Bable, if he really wanted to win the match, but Benitez thinks otherwise. His common method is try and error, just look at how many players he had tried on left wing since had been in charge, Riise, Zenden, Gonzales, Garcia, Leto, Benayoun, Kewell, Bable, Gerrard, and now Keane's turn, he would have loved to try [Barry of Villa if he has managed to buy him] in that sticky position too!!, a top manager does not need to try 9 players in one position in order to solve the width problem of his first team.
Benitez is a master of buying a lot of average unknown players at top prices, and after little spell, he sells them on the cheap, he is our main problem, and the club in constant decline since the last three seasons, between Benitez and the two cowboys owners, I can not see any glimpse of hope!!!!