Benitez will be axed at weekend, bets British bookie

LONDON: One of Britain's leading betting firms said Wednesday it had stopped taking money on Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez becoming the next English Premier League boss to be sacked.

Willliam Hill said that as of late Tuesday afternoon the Spaniard was a 20/1 outsider to be the next manager to leave his post.

But despite the fact that both Manchester United and Arsenal were playing in the Champions League on Tuesday, Hill's said Benitez was "backed off the boards" to have left Liverpool by the weekend.