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It was Benitez's destiny for him to win the CL for us that year. Almost written in the stars. From Stevie's olympiakos winner to THAT goal against the chavs to dudek's impossible save against shevchenko.
Faz, you can diss rafa all you want but all I can say is that it was probably his destiny to bring the cup back home for us.
For that, he will always be a legend in LFC's books. no mate benitez gets massive credit for that great win and ok if you want to call him a legend great thats up to you , but from that great event came for me the badness of benitez in later years , and surely looking at him now at chelsea you can see the real benitez , not this benitez tinited world some would have him in .
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If you read the accounts the half time talk was a muddle and an injury made the change and he sent 12 men out until caracgher reminded him. I was at that game and I swear it was the Liverpool fans that win the game fir us. Once smicers goal went in you could feel history being made
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If you read the accounts the half time talk was a muddle and an injury made the change and he sent 12 men out until caracgher reminded him. I was at that game and I swear it was the Liverpool fans that win the game fir us. Once smicers goal went in you could feel history being made dudek's save from sheva's free kick first few minutes of the 2nd half was a big turning point ,that would have been 4-0 then liverpool scored a few mins later , just went liverpool way milan thought it was won took there foot off the gas and couldnt get going and liverpool came back .
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need to get the dvd of this best european tie ever, best league game is the 4-3 on boxing day v newcastle.
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I'm pretty sure he said he could barely speak English and just went through some tactics, credit to his decisions with subs and all that they seemed to pay off, whether he wanted to bring those players on or not. In my eyes he's a legend, to win the champions league with the squad he had, against the squad Milan had is just incredible. People say he won it with gerrard houiller's squad, but I doubt houiller would of even came close to winning it
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As fans we may never really know what was said or by whom so i prefer to think it was down to everyone there on the night,they all had a part to play however small,as for Rafa if he didn't say much to inspire that night he must have had a say in getting us there on the road to Istanbul so that's good enough for me and he will and should be a legend forever. 
Life is beautiful when you find Love when you find the place your meant to be when you find the one to give your heart to as for me this is you this is Love
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It was Benitez's destiny for him to win the CL for us that year. Almost written in the stars. From Stevie's olympiakos winner to THAT goal against the chavs to dudek's impossible save against shevchenko.
Faz, you can diss rafa all you want but all I can say is that it was probably his destiny to bring the cup back home for us.
For that, he will always be a legend in LFC's books. no mate benitez gets massive credit for that great win and ok if you want to call him a legend great thats up to you , but from that great event came for me the badness of benitez in later years , and surely looking at him now at chelsea you can see the real benitez , not this benitez tinited world some would have him in . It was not only this win faz. He's a legend in my books because he managed to assemble a squad that so nearly won the league in 2009 when he had no right to. Tell me, which manager could have done what he did to assemble a team with the feck all support he had from H&G and to win game after game in '09 - only to not win the league because the scum managed to squeeze out an even more unbelievable season?
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You can tell you guys have all been on here together a long time. Your periods have started to synchronise. Brilliant stuff!
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ok 2005 what rubbish did he say before the kick off to send out such an unprepared team and why did he pick kewell ??? That's why...
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really considering he hadnt played much in that run in and everyone was shocked kewell was playing .
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