Imagine going to work each day and no matter how well you do, your popularity rating struggles to rise above zero. You produce good results for your employers in your first month, yet you are still vilified.

In your own mind you know you have little chance of changing the opinion of the masses whose minds are so made up it would be an admission of weakness for them to admit they were wrong.

Welcome to the world of Rafa Benitez, interim manager of Chelsea.