Liverpool Classics: Liverpool 4-4 Arsenal | Rafa Benitez, Fernando Torres and the tale of the 2008-09 season

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this day 11 years ago in 2009, Liverpool draw 4-4 with an-Andrey Arshavin inspired Arsenal at Anfield in one of the greatest matches in Premier League history. The point did take Rafa Benitez's Reds to the top of the table, but in spite of Yossi Benayoun's last-gasp equaliser, the result handed the title initiative to eventual champions Manchester United. However, although Liverpool ended the 2008-09 season empty-handed, it was a season that contained that so many happy memories, which Paul Wheelock and Dan Kay look back on in our latest Liverpool Classics podcast. Also on the agenda are Fernando Torres, the Reds' other two-goal scorer on a night filled with drama, and the manager, himself, and why there was no shame in Benitez being unable to follow up his Champions League success with that prized Premier League title. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:10.0	Hello and welcome to your latest Liverpool Classics podcast on the Blood Red channel
0:13.4	I'm Paul Wielock and I'm delighted to be joined on the line once again by Dan Kay of
0:17.1	the Liverpool Echo now Dan and I recorded one of these podcasts out ten days ago now
0:21.3	we're looking back on the iconic 5-mill win over
0:23.8	Nottingham Forest in 1988 which also gave us the chance to reminisce about that
0:28.1	truly great Liverpool side that won the league that season but this podcast is
0:32.2	about a red team that were piped to the title and
0:34.1	and actually a match they didn't win but before you turn off I think you'll forgive us
0:38.1	for talking about Liverpool 4 Arsenal 4 for one of the all-time great Premier League games which took place
0:43.4	exactly 11 years ago today and it features one of the best individual
0:47.4	performances many of us are likely to see from an opposition player and
0:51.0	hopefully it'll give us a chance to talk about a
0:53.0	Liverpool season that may not go down in the history books but it did have so
0:56.4	many highlights and so many reasons to remember. Dan thanks for joining us
1:01.0	mate are you looking forward to doing this?
1:10.0	Yeah yeah it was a it was a very dramatic season and a very dramatic kind of spell during that season when this Arsenal game came around and even if it was one of those seasons
1:14.0	and one of those matches that we look on,
1:16.0	you know, slightly wistly.
1:18.0	And it was quite an occasion
1:20.0	and it was a privilege to be there,
1:21.0	even if things didn't maybe quite pan out the way that
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