There's a new, additional TV room at Rafa Benitez's house in West Kirby which has been installed at the insistence of Montse, his wife. Most days you will find Benitez holed up in there with his new coaching protégé, daughter, Agata, 18, watching football. As many partners without an interest in football will testify, there really is a game on every night in this most-bizarre pandemic season.
'We have another TV for games because my wife is complaining that I am watching even more games than in the past,' says Benitez, smiling across the Zoom call as he chats on Friday afternoon.