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Rafa's crazy guarantee

Tue Dec 15 05:02PM

If Liverpool fail to qualify for the Champions League, we now know the words that will haunt Rafa Benitez as he makes his way out of Anfield and on to the next easyJet flight back to Madrid. "I can guarantee we will finish in the top four." That is what Benitez said today when discussing Liverpool's prospects for…More

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