Hello everyone, welcome to the build-up show Liverpool taking on Newcastle this boxing day, top of the table reds against Raffer's Jordy's Chris.

Yeah, good to see Raffer back.

We like Raffer, big part of Liverpool's history.

I'm just going to paraphrase from the Road to Glory series.

Let's bring him in.

Let's give him a cup of tea, give him a cuddle, sing you'll have a walk alone with him, pull his pants down, take to any

points, kick him up the door and say thanks very much, Raffa. It's what we've been doing

at Amfield pretty much all season long, isn't it, to all the other managers, so why not

continue it with Newcastle? I think we all know how good the manager is. I think we all know how good he was for this city and how good, the Montspanita's Foundation is still doing great work over in Merseyside, but none of that matters on Boxing Day, what matters is going there and making sure that we're top of the Premier League at the end of Boxing Day. And I think, you know, we all know, I think, how Newcastle are probably going to set against us, how Raffa is going to try and tactically steal a point or three. Teams have been trying this against us all season long, and Liverpool have had too much for a lot of these sides. I hope we can sing Raffa's name because it means that we'll be comfortable winning. Yes. Like, it means we're 3 in a lot with 10 10 minutes to go and then you can give him a little song. He'll clap the cop. It's a nice little moment. Perfect world scenario is you win 3-0 and then at full-time. The whistle's gone. You finish the song about Liverpool and you sing Raffer off the pitch and he goes and then goes to his old fans and goes

all right yeah he's got to use that right um yeah raff has actually got a surprisingly good record

against us because we only beating him once um with him in the opposition dug out right and that was

last season the two-no win he beat us twice with Valencia drew with us as Chelsea boss and

drew with us in Newcastle twice I think prior to that so you know he is a manager who

causes us problems and I think a lot of that's down to his you know we kind of

mentioned his style he's a pragmatic manager he's not the of guy, particularly not with this Newcastle side.

He's not going to come here, and he's not going to do what wolves have just done. He's not going to come and try to go toe to toe with us. He will be canny. He will look to be defensively. He'll look to beat us on, you know, he'll look to engineer situations. and those types of things, isn't it?

And I think that's the right call, isn't it?

You know, he hasn't had situations and those types of things isn't it? And I think that's

the right call,

isn't it?

You know,

he hasn't had the backing that he probably deserves. I think, I was saying to the lady the night, I actually think the Premier League Miss is having a good Newcastle side and you know what? I love Benitez and I think sometimes people think his sides are a bit more negative

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