The arrival of Rafa Benitez signalled a new era at Liverpool, but that new era very briefly began early due to a misplaced mouse click.Gerard Houllier had brought Liverpool into the modern age of football, but by the summer of 2004, his race was run for the Reds and change was needed.Fresh from winning his second Spanish top-flight title at Valencia, Benitez arrived on Merseyside and was appointed on June 16, 2004.However, his appointment was actually leaked early by then Liverpool FC website writer Mark Platt.Now serving as the club’s much-loved museum curator and historian, Platt explained in an interview with Liverpoolfc.com: “We knew Rafa was being appointed but it was yet to be officially announced.“I’d been off for a few days and due back in work on the Saturday. On the Friday night, in preparation for the following day I logged on briefly to check which stories were waiting to be published.“The story confirming Rafa as manager had been written in advance, so I went in to have a read, only to press the publish button by mistake!“My heart sunk and I was like, ‘What have I done?’“I panicked, pressing all the buttons to stop it! Somehow it worked. No-one saw it and thankfully I got away with it.“In this day and age it would be different, someone would be onto it straight away.” Another moment, one that will have had his heart racing for different reasons, came when Platt had his first interview with a Liverpool manager.While on a journalism course as a youngster, at Liverpool Community College near Melwood training ground, he took a chance and managed to speak to Graeme Souness.Platt recalled: “A group of us, all Liverpool fans, were on a project and had to go out and bring a story back. I was like, ‘Let’s go to Melwood.’“Graeme Souness was the manager, it must have been 1992 or 1993. We knocked on the gate and said, ‘Can we speak to Graeme Souness? We’re from the college.’“The fella goes, ‘Come in, lads. I’ll go and speak to him.’“He comes back and goes, ‘He’s going to get a shower and he’ll come and speak to you when he’s finished.’“True to his word, Souness came out and must have given us a good half an hour, 40 minutes and we were firing all sorts of questions at him.“We wrote the article up and actually sold it to a magazine. That obviously gave me the taste for it.”There is no chance a group of students would be given that kind of access to Arne Slot nowadays due to all the media commitments he already faces!