Rafa's half-time speech

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"Don't let your heads drop.
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All the players who go onto the pitch after half-time have to keep their heads held high.

We are Liverpool, you are playing for Liverpool.

Do not forget that.

You have to hold your heads high for the supporters.

You have to do it for them.

You cannot call yourselves Liverpool players if you have your heads down.

If we create a few chances we have the possibility of getting back into this.

Believe you can do it and we will.

Give yourselves the chance to be heroes."

- (Rafa Benitez half-time speech, Champions League Final, 2005, Istanbul, as quoted on a poster in a Liverpool pub).

"I've seen posters on pub walls in Liverpool which claim to have my speech set down word for word. Well, even I can't remember it exactly, but they've got it pretty close" - Rafael Benitez
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(Got this from a great book I have been reading over the holidays, "A Season on the Brink", by Guillem Balague).
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I have always liked Mr Balague, I am not surprised that he is part of the greater Rafalution.

You should check out this great football book which I am reading:

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Here's a little bit..."What the fuck is art? A picture of sour milk lying next to a smelly old jumper? To me it's a load of shit. I'd say football is art" - the thoughts of then Aston Villa manager John Gregory as recorded in Loaded magazine in 1999.
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