Liverpool FC

Losing to Kaiserslautern, Grasshopper of Zurich and FC Mainz, hardly three of Europe's giants, can only be regarded as a quite appalling warm-up for the season.

I thereby assume that Rafa Benitez ordered the team to look like a bunch of incompetent losers in order to lure everyone else, beginning with Maccabi Haifa, into a false sense of security.