RIP Jurgen Klopp

Morning all. Quick shout out to Gav for reminding me that I had not published a blog this morning! I am currently on a 469-day streak, so would have been devastated had I not made it to day 470!

No football for The Arsenal at the weekend due to us crashing out of the FA Cup, but at least we got to enjoy the cricket!

Sky, ITV and BBC have gone into overdrive with the Jurgen Klopp obituaries. Anyone would think the King had just died with the level of coverage Klopp has got.

I get that Klopp has done a lot for the city of Liverpool, and the media to pander to the Scousers for fear of being boycotted and cancelled, but it has felt at sometimes that we were watching Liverpool TV.

It is easy to forget with everything that is going on that Klopp has only won 4 trophies and a single league title during his 8-and-a-bit years in charge. That is behind modern greats Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola.

Klopp’s single league title has him joint 27th on the list of English football championship-winning managers, behind the likes of Herbert Chapman, Wenger, George Allison, Tom Whittaker and George Graham.

The way the Scousers are grieving, you would think he was Shankly or Paisley. The truth is he is closer to Claudio Ranieri in terms of what he has won in England.

At least the trouble in the WBA v Wolves game meant that we avoided whatever excruciating segment the BBC had planned ahead of Liverpool’s game against Norwich.

On WBA v Wolves, it was funny listening to Sam Matterface describing the scenes as if he was reporting from the front line. I did laugh when they say “we do not like to see scenes like that” when the only reason ITV picked WBA v Wolves was because it had the potential to see “scenes like that”.

Another fraud is Ange Postecoglou.

The greatest thing to come out of Australia since Skippy the Bush Kangaroo got very close to equaling Martin Jol’s “perfect season”.

In 2005/06, with no European football, Jol’s Tottenham was knocked out of the FA Cup 3rd round and League Cup 2nd round, meaning they played just 40 games that season – the minimum a Premier League team can play.

This season, Tottenham will play just 41 games having gone out of the FA Cup on Friday. That means their biggest result this season has been a 1-0 victory at home to Burnley! Expect the DVDs to be out soon!

In 2005/06, Jol took Tottenham to 5th in the table, the same position that Postecoglou brilliant Spurs team occupy. If that is where they remain, then it would be fair to make comparisons between the two sides and managers.

Ange Postecoglou is basically the new Martin Jol.

tomorrow we face Nottingham Forest. I imagine there will be a minute silence before the game for Jurgen Klopp so we can all pay respects to him. Hopefully the fans show him as much respect as Liverpool fans showed to a dead chicken.

Enjoy your Monday.

Keenos

2 thoughts on “RIP Jurgen Klopp

  1. Free's avatarFree

    Totally agree woth you on Ange.

    But you are incredibly wrong and sireslctdul to Klopp who is probably the greatest manager in the world or at least top 4.

    Had he been given the resources that Arteta or Pep have been given he would destroy the PL.

    Arteta OUT BTW….I am.constant in that. He is a fraud at top level and we will win nothing with him

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    1. Johnno's avatarJohnno

      Hate to break it to you but we’ve already won something with him. In fairness, you were probably only 2 or 3 years old at the time so won’t remember it.

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