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Darren Farley, Impersonating Rafa Benítez, Meets Rafa Benítez

Remember Darren Farley, the Liverpool fan whose dead-on impersonations of Michael Owen, Steven Gerrard, and Rafa Benítez made him a YouTube sensation? Well, things have been happening for Darren Farley. Online celebrity has brought him to the stage of Liverpool’s Local Heroes event. Where he’s asked to impersonate Rafa Benítez. And where, unbeknownst to him, he’s about to meet Rafa Benítez. Let’s watch.

Does Rafa actually say at one point that because his English isn’t good, he has trouble saying “Fernando Torres”? What language does he think “Fernando Torres” is in?

[via The Beautiful Game]

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Darren Farley, Impersonating Rafa Benítez, Meets Rafa Benítez

by Brian Phillips · December 9, 2008

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