Champions League 2005
Liverpool are celebrating their victory over AC Milan by doing a tour of the city in an open-top bus. The route passed about half a mile from where my BIL lives near the Jolly Miller pub so I went along with my wife's family. We waited for a couple of hours, the atmosphere was great and everyone was happy and cracking jokes and laughing. Eventually, the bus arrives and the crowd swells towards it - there must have been a few thousand people were we were. We can see Gerrard and Carragher at the front, trophy proudly held aloft and everyone is cheering. As the bus draws level with me an urge comes into my head:
"RAFA!" I yelled.
Rafa Benitez was in the middle of a TV interview and was speaking to an interviewer and camera. Despite this, he stopped, looked straight at me for half a second and then turned away and carried on with the interview.

To this day, I'm still baffled but flattered by the whole thing. Surely the entire length of the journey the players and management team must have had their names yelled out, but in a crowd of several thousand people, Rafa suddenly thought my voice sounded like someone he knew and was worth looking down off the bus for? Either ways, I hope one day I'll see the interview he was doing and will be able to say: "I derailed his train of thought just then! That's me yelling in the background!"
(Hagis, Sun 19 Apr 2009, 0:14, 2 replies)

hey!
you could try that again this year! Oh no, wait a minute. You cant.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Sun 19 Apr 2009, 1:28, closed)

:-)
There's still the league....
(Hagis, Sun 19 Apr 2009, 11:13, closed)