Meanwhile, they jeered Benitez, remembering unflattering comments that Benitez had made about them when he was the Liverpool manager between 2004 and 2010.

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Megson has been a dead man walking since January, when he dubbed supporters "pathetic" after they had jeered him following the surrender of a two-goal lead in the local derby at Blackburn.

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It was a match reminiscent of England's last visit to the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, under Steve McClaren in March 2007, when they were also jeered off at the interval and had to wait until Steven Gerrard's 54th-minute goal to break the deadlock against the part-timers.

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They have assiduously avoided the sins of Netscape, which belligerently jeered at Microsoft's efforts to build a Web browser.

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