YOUR FRIENDS' ACTIVITY A mad move, or a no-lose situation? It has been 72 hours since Rafa Benitez was appointed Chelsea manager and still there is no win. The P45 is only a matter of time. He must already be feeling the pressure. Except Benitez doesn't feel pressure like the rest of us. Cushioned by an ego the size of Catalonia, the possibility of failure does not enter his thinking. Or at least not his own failure. If anything goes wrong at a football club where he is involved it is never his fault. It is always the players who are to blame. Or the chairman. Or those in charge of the transfer policy. Or Alex Ferguson. Last night the League Managers' Association held its annual dinner at Wembley. Despite what you might think, the toast was not to Roman Abramovich, the one-man job-creation-scheme for LMA members. After all, while Manchester United have offered just one vacancy in the last 26 years, Abramovich has given work to nine LMA members in just nine years. Not to mention the hefty compensation packages which cushion their departure. But no, instead everyone was bemoaning the lack of continuity in the profession, the way in which job security is evaporating. The conversation was all about Benitez and why he would want to take on the impossible job at Stamford Bridge. Was he mad, the managers past and present in attendance wanted to know. Surely he must understand it can only be a matter of