How Rafa Benitez was accidentally announced as Liverpool’s new manager!

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“My heart sunk and I was like, ‘What have I done?’ “I panicked, pressing all the buttons to stop it! “In this day and age it would be different, someone would be onto it straight away.” Another moment, one that will have had his heart racing for different reasons, came when Platt had his first interview with a Liverpool manager.

Platt recalled: “A group of us, all Liverpool fans, were on a project and had to go out and bring a story back. I was like, ‘Let’s go to Melwood.’ “Graeme Souness was the manager, it must have been 1992 or 1993.

We knocked on the gate and said, ‘Can we speak to Graeme Souness? I’ll go and speak to him.’ “He comes back and goes, ‘He’s going to get a shower and he’ll come and speak to you when he’s finished.’ “True to his word, Souness came out and must have given us a good half an hour, 40 minutes and we were firing all sorts of questions at him.