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Aug 2025
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Rafa Benitez & the games that made him

Bbc Radio 5 Live
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A special episode from the Football Daily archives when in 2019 Rafa Benitez joined Guillem Balague to talk Istanbul, Tyneside & Madrid.

[This is a re-versioned episode from the Football Daily archive. It was first published on the 25th April 2019]

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