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JURGEN KLOPP 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL!! (Part Two)
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Louie Easton and Karl Coppack join Jesse Sarwar to celebrate 10 years since Jurgen Klopp joined Liverpool.
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Klopp's Decade at Liverpool: A Retrospective
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Welcome to part two of the daily Liverpool's coverage of the 10-year anniversary of Jurgen Klopp joining Liverpool Football Club.
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Let's pick up where we left off. Louis, your next classic moment or memorable moment? I've got a few. I think the one that I want to talk about next, seeing as we're talking about great Klopp comebacks, and i did say that I think that was the first taste, and I've just remembered another one, that away match at Carrow Road.
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The 5-4 win. The 5-4 win. And it was just... You couldn't have written it. The amount of twists and turns. Because I think it was Teti who scored to make it 4-4 in the last minute.
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And there was a real feeling of um Norwich jubilation. And then suddenly at the other end... And but bearing in mind Norwich had their third choice goalkeeper in goal. And I felt so bad for him.
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Um, but Lallana with a left foot volley into the ground, into the ground, and it just goes over the goalkeeper and if he falls back and collapses into his own net. And I'll never forget that celebration where Lallana takes off his shirt, runs over to Jurgen Klopp, jumps on him.
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Benteke jumps behind him and breaks his glasses. And Klopp in the press conference afterwards, still recovering with broken glasses, says, I do you have another pair somewhere, but it's very hard to find glasses without glasses.
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And then points at a journalist who was wearing glasses in the front
Early Klopp Years: Chaos and Charisma
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row. So it was that kind of game, Carl, kind of summed up that um the early Klopp years, didn't it? That kind of the absolute chaos of it. And you just don't know whether we're going to win for three lose 4-3, draw 4-4. But it was you couldn't say it wasn't entertaining.
00:02:54
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Yeah, um and I'm against that. um'd I'd always have a boring 1-0. 38 of them is fine by me. I remember also that was Stephen Naismith's debut. He'd gone there from Everton and he absolutely had a blinder.
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He was really, really good for them. And I also remember when Besson got the ball, who never had any time for whatsoever. I thought, I'll let him shoot. Oh, for God's sake. Scores an absolute screamer.
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um Yeah, it was all a bit... You know, for someone who who grew up on Rafa Benitez's control of midfield and everything, there was no control whatsoever. We know about what's going on then.
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And it's good that we brought this game up because we get to talk about the glory that is Stephen Kolker. um Who is Jürgen Klopp's first signing? So we get this new manager in from Germany. He's on first name terms with the elite of European football.
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And the first person he signs is Stephen Colker. And Stephen Colker nearly rejected the call because he thought... It was his mates having a go at him, and he was drunk in Dublin when he got the call. And we bought him to secure the defence, and he's he's he's known mostly for just knocking that ball down, just for causing havoc in the air, which leads to the Lallana goal.
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yeah um Yeah, I wasn't living in Norwich at that point. i I don't actually remember him playing a game in his natural position. He was always just used as a late striker. 10 minutes at the end.
00:04:18
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Yeah. Yeah, it was an extra an extraordinary sign and and one that just got us over the... I think I've said... Was that January? remember it was cold anyway. It was very cold. so And I remember the... I remember Milner got one of his first goals for Liverpool at that point as well. And on Penn, yeah.
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Yeah, no, it wasn't a pen. he I'm just saying a non-pen, a rare non-pen. Yeah, a non-pen, and he ran through and he did a step over, wrong-footed the goalkeeper and slotted it away, which is just... I'm trying to remember who the goalkeeper was now. I'm going to have to look at it. Declan Rudd.
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Declan Rudd. I have not heard that name in years. He was ruined by that match, I imagine. Yeah. Yeah, Stephen Cocker was on the bench, he came on.
00:05:03
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Yeah. Wow. He came on in 89 minutes. which which Which was kind of normal for him. He'd he'd get yeah kind of two or three minutes. so Jürgen Klopp needs you for six minutes, mate, for injury time. That's what he needs you for.
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yeah wonder what he's up to nowadays. He's doing a lot podcasts about that game. He is. yes I've seen it it I like Stephen Klopp. He's good lad. but that was so nice He's now playing ah in Iceland, funnily enough, ah the men's football department of the... i'm not I'm not going to even try and pronounce that name. Oh, my word.
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But he's playing in the top tier of Icelandic football for Stjarnan.
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platon Fair play to him. He's carried on playing. Yeah, good for him. But yeah, that was ah another ah great moment. um Another, um I'm going bring up something that, you know, it it might not be, um it's not it's not a ah great footballing moment.
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But when i whenever I think of the Klopp era, these are one of the moments that I think of. And, Carl, you mentioned Lucas Lever. And it's when Lucas Lever attempted a long-distance shot.
00:06:19
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Darby. His manager, yeah. His manager sat on the bench, world-class coach Jürgen Klopp. Yeah. just burst out laughing and i just thought this guy he's he's just he's just something different he's just something different yeah he was also doing things like uh one of my favorite interviews was when
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Des Kelly interviewed him on BT Sport as it was at the time. He ended it with saying, thanks for your time, Jürgen. And he said, i answered your questions because I had to. Bye. And just walks away. Wow. Anybody slags off Des Kelly is fine by me. I can't stand Des Kelly. Stephen Jarrell at the club as well, doesn't he?
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Yeah, he's it's just very sort of... I love his attitude to press conference where basically just says, going to ask me that question, are you? you know I didn't like it when been up people like Brian Clough used to do it all the time. but um and And speaking of his interviews as well, my favourite one ever, which is a famous one, was when he's listen he's got the headphones on listening to the interpreter in the European game, and he says, well very you've got a very erotic voice, by the way.
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and and And everyone laughs at that, and he said he just says, again, please? Yeah, i love that I think we've actually got that clip, Jesse. I think that's so that's ah on Louis' list of... ah um yeah Actually makes up to third on my list.
00:07:40
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Yeah, I'll do it on this part. Let's just play that one to remind everyone. Good evening, coach. So, Mani's got injured. so He's right. How does he feel now? Sorry, I'm just Senegalese, I want to know. want to know.
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us but saint charma said a muchre that that we know So it's a very important game tomorrow. How are you going to play against Paris tomorrow?
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It's a very erotic voice, by the way. translator um Wow. Congratulations. Wow.
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Again, please. we'll set up It's that laugh at the end though, isn't it, Louis? ah yeah and just That clop laugh is just amazing.
00:08:35
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I mean, it feels strange just talking about a manager's laugh um on a football podcast. But there's something about Jurgen Klopp. He just has this sort of demeanor about him that everyone can't get enough of. I mean, just hearing his stories. And I've got a couple of other ones on my list that i is just, you know, only Jurgen Klopp could do that and not be hated by rival
Coutinho's Decision: Klopp's Advice
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fans. Like when he, do remember the match against Arsenal early on and Joe Allen scored a last minute winner?
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And Jurgen Klopp in the snow sprints down the touchline, gets snow caught in his hood, realized that he's run about 30 yards. And he's like, oh, God, I have to run back now.
00:09:23
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yeah I just, yeah, there's there's so much. Yeah.
00:09:32
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um a lot of journalists did look forwards to talking to him because he entertained them i mean there are some exceptions such as dez kelly as you referred to carl but ah for the most part in his early days at liverpool especially people would just look forwards to his press conferences Yeah, no, absolutely.
00:09:52
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He hated Dave Kelly because of that term that game he played where somebody got injured and they said, that you know, but another injury says, yeah, I'm injured because you people you people put this game on at 12.30 we played on on Wednesday night.
00:10:06
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That's how injuries happen. That's down to you. And he got he gets all defensive about it and... and And the BT team just let it run because it's news. Obviously, they don't really care about the fact that might have a point. It's it's more the fact that you know we've got content out of this and we can just keep showing this clip all the time if Jürgen going a bit mad ah because i think we drew the game.
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um But ah yeah, it was just just just always fun. I know people have interviewed him as well and said he's just like just like that all the time. Everything's a laugh. there's no Yeah, there's no wonder he ran out of energy.
00:10:37
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But just on that ah on that ah running down the touchline point I just made, there's a more sort of memorable one. And that's the last minute winner against Everton that Origi headed in when Van Dijk sliced it and it came off the bar.
00:10:53
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I think Pickford actually kept it in play. I still can't actually see fully. and No one knows what he's doing. Yeah, no one knows what he was doing and that's our England keeper. um But when he ran onto to the pitch afterwards to celebrate with Alison and he was interviewed afterwards and he just looked a bit sort of apologetic in the interview.
00:11:14
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i mean, that's that's that might be my favorite moment of him on during a match. I thought it was a steward. I thought it i was I was in the Anfield Road and I thought it was a steward.
00:11:25
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I thought steward's got onto the pitch and I saw that. Oh no, that's the manager. And what i love about that more than anything else is Danny Mills was furious about it. So they thought, if Danny Mills is furious about it, it can only be a good thing in humanity alone. There's a lot of people on your hate list, aren't there? Yeah, just an awful lot of people. Mostly Danny Mills.
00:11:43
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That's a separate podcast series. yeah That's like a 56-episode series. Yeah. um But no, you know... Klopp doing that really just, it's it sums up um what he meant to Liverpool supporters because you could see when he runs onto the pitch, he has no idea where he's going.
00:12:06
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When he first runs onto the pitch, he has no idea where he's going. He apologised to Marco Silva after us, didn't he? He says, I shouldn't have done that. But in that moment, he's just a supporter. In that moment, he's just completely lost um you know any kind of, right, I'm Liverpool manager, I've got to stay on the touchline.
00:12:24
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He's on the pitch and and the nearest guy to him was Alisson. Yeah, Alisson looked shots when he came over as well. Well, and I think it's a footballing thing because he does he doesn't run to Origi because Origi doesn't know what to do for a start. Origi weirdly takes the ball and puts it on the penalty spot so we don't waste any time. We've won, mate. He runs to Alisson because Alisson touched the ball for Trent to move up to do the to do the cross.
00:12:46
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He likes what Alisson's done. Because if Alisson just takes the goal kick, it's not going to get up the other end of the pit. So he just touches it so Trent can take it. um And he that's what he loves about it more than anything else. Alisson is thinking as a footballer.
00:12:59
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Yeah. um That's why he runs to Alisson. So that that's brilliant that you did that. and And I wouldn't have thought about that at all um until he'd done it. I think also it's a testament to how much of a great relationship he's he has with his players as well.
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Because, I mean, I did allude to it earlier with the whole Adam Lallana thing, but he's very quick to sort of run onto the pitch and hug all the players after the final whistle. And he it became a thing, the Klopp hug.
00:13:26
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And when he was, this is another moment on my list. When we won the UEFA Super Cup against Chelsea and Adrian saved the winning penalty, he goes on to the, I think it was BT and he just goes, Adrian!
00:13:41
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and then he explains it. Yeah, yeah. Like Rocky. Yeah. And then the early days as well um with the jordan art with Jordan Ibe. I can't remember which match it was, but he scored from like 30 yards out, scuffs it and it just rolls in, runs onto the pitch afterwards, goes IB in front of the camera. It's just these little things. Jordan Ibe that's your mate.
00:14:04
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Oh, yeah, he follows me on Instagram now, by the way. Although he didn't reply to my message, he just left me on scene. But, you know, if that's not us ah nothing against him. If he wants to come on the podcast, we would love to have you if you're listening. Have you got to mention on every show now? Is this part of the deal you set up with him? Alongside Rhys Williams. Yeah.
00:14:24
Speaker
But, so yeah, no, look, the Origi goal is, again, that's I think it's got to be on everyone's list. Merseyside Derby. Dying moments of the game.
00:14:37
Speaker
Absolutely unbelievable celebration from Jurgen Klopp. Under the lights at Anfield as well. oh It's always special when it's under the lights. But so yeah, know that that was an amazing, ah amazing moment.
00:14:49
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here at the Global Sporting. Okay, ah that was... Enough of that silly voice. Enough of that. um Right, some iconic moments. so There's just so many to choose from. yeah um Can I go next?
00:15:43
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Yeah, go on. I've got a really, really important one. Go And it's the signing of Sadio Mane. Okay. What in particular? sweat That's when I just thought.
00:15:54
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um There's a couple of reasons. this There's a couple reasons that one of them is very, very selfish. I did... um i write for another Liverpool website and I did a podcast on a transfer show called The Gutter Show and I said Liverpool should sign Sadio Mane from Southampton because I just think he's brilliant and also that lad from Newcastle who got four goals against Norwich.
00:16:19
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genie somebody or other. and And within two weeks, he'd bought both. And I thought, me and Jürgen, we're on the same page. It's like Libby with Jordan Ibe. you know There's a connection.
00:16:32
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And because I've been thinking for a while that Sadio Mane would look brilliant on the left for us, um either as a forward or as a, I thought more of as a 10, to be honest, because of his pace. And we weren't particularly quick side to be at Ben Tecker, you know.
00:16:48
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and um And I just thought, I think this lad's got the lot. I think he wins his trophies. i think I was so excited about Bayern Sadio Mane. I just thought you buy him straight away and you pay whatever Southampton wants.
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um And I know there's the the three big signings to come in Alisson, Moe um and Virgil. But um I thought that was the one that just thought, now we're serious. So then we go to Arsenal, first game of the season.
00:17:15
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And of all the hundred and odd goals he scored for Liverpool, he would never score a better one than that. What a goal. And he's tied out on the right, didn't he? Yeah. yeah out like In Mo's position.
00:17:27
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But that goal, that left foot goal. um Yeah, what what an announcement. from And it looked matter of fact. That's why I loved it more than anything else. I'll just do this. A great match. That was the that was the match where Coutinho scored a free kick from miles out as well.
00:17:42
Speaker
That was such a good match. But that also, I think like that game sums up the early Jurgen Klopp years because we were brilliant and Albert Moreno did the stupidest thing I've ever seen on a football pitch and then did it again.
00:17:55
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he goes two-footed on someone in the penalty area. It's not a penalty. So he goes two-footed again on the same player. Absolutely brain dead. and And I thought more than anything, i we need a left back.
00:18:07
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um And I still think that's the case today. But I just, that, with and Bayern's idea was just a sort of right.
Pivotal Signings: The Mane Effect
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now Now he's buying players. Now he's generally buying players. Because I'll be honest, Stephen Colker did knock me for a bit.
00:18:21
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i thought, but buddy, Brendan would Stephen. No, even Brendan wouldn't buy Stephen Colker. um And I just thought, yeah, that's ah we've moved up here. We've gone a little bit higher in terms of who the shop... Because at this point, people were talking about um Liverpool can only buy certain players from certain shops.
00:18:39
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We're not going to get the players that Barcelona want. And there's always a lot of things about why don't we buy the players who are at Barcelona who can't get them to the first team? And I thought, that's depressing.
00:18:49
Speaker
That's depressing. um You know, Pedro, for example, is one of those players. And I thought, yeah, well we we bought someone here pretty cheap from Southampton, and I think he's going to be glorious.
00:19:02
Speaker
And yeah of all the front three, I think i think he was my favourite of the front three. Yeah, was a phenomenal signing. And and I think you're right, Carl, in terms of the kind of major players that we signed, obviously, you know, Van Dijk and Alisson, you know, that they they always kind of get the um ah the kind of write-ups and, you know, as being kind of transformative signings. But I think Sadio Mane's signing really kind of la ah laid the groundwork for that.
00:19:30
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um Louis, do you have any other classic moments? Yeah, I have a ah have a few more, actually. And it's amazing that I'm still saying a few more after all this time. There's so many. this is a This one is a bit more of a sort of negative, in a way,
00:19:50
Speaker
But something that's made in heart in hindsight made Klopp really good. And that's the sort of behind the scenes, something that was that sort of surfaced on social media after it happened.
00:20:04
Speaker
he It was the departure of Felipe Coutinho. um in January 2018, I believe. um And, you know, in hindsight, it was the right thing because we used that money to reinvest and we got Van Dijk and Allison.
00:20:17
Speaker
You know, Van Dijk, our best centre-back ever, maybe, alongside Hansen and Allison, our best goalkeeper ever, alongside Ray Clements, maybe. But... He said to Coutinho, if you stay, they will build a statue in your honour. If you leave, you will be just another player.
00:20:34
Speaker
And at the end, he was right. um rival And I was absolutely heartbroken when we lost Coutinho because he was my favourite Liverpool player for years at that point. um Just the way he played so unlike anything that I'd seen from any Liverpool player before.
00:20:50
Speaker
Yeah. And it's just the fact that he was willing to part with him with this in mind. maybe not willing, but you understand what I'm trying to say. It's just he was he he said the right thing to Coutinho.
00:21:07
Speaker
And it happened. you know He had one good half season at Barcelona. And then he just... He started well, then went on loan to Bayern, did well for them, kind of. One of the...
00:21:19
Speaker
one the did he win the Champions League with them that year? I think he did. think so. But then after that, he just fell off a cliff. You know, he went back to Barcelona. Couldn't get the Villa Couldn't get in the Villa side either, um apart from when Gerrard was there, but that was when Villa were not a very good team.
00:21:35
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But it was, I mean, the the goal he scored against City on the last day of the season, I just thought this is just poetically beautiful. Gerrard and Coutinho winning the league for us at City. And then, well, we know what happened ah at the end of that.
00:21:49
Speaker
Um, But I just wanted to bring up that quote just because it's Klopp saying exactly what I would want to say to Coutinho.
00:22:01
Speaker
Yeah, reading the moment, right? Reading the moment. And, you know, I think it was a great, it was a great statement um to be put out there as well for for the supporters and for for players who, you know, at the club, players, ah you know, may in the future look to join Liverpool that look,
00:22:23
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you know we're building something here. And, you know, he always said about the journey, right? And it wasn't critical. It wasn't disrespectful. yeah It was just the right thing to say. turned out to be prophetic, right? it turned out to be, you know, 100% spot on. um um I'm going to come up with ah with another one, which...
00:22:43
Speaker
I think, again, that there are so many kind of just unique Jurgen Klopp moments. This one is another one. um But it's kind of bittersweet now.
00:22:54
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um And that is Jota's last-minute goal against Spurs. I've never seen a manager pull a hamstring, you know. And, you know, Klopp just pulling his hamstring while he's going mental at the fourth official.
00:23:12
Speaker
ah ah It just kind encapsulates just everything about Liverpool Football Club. You know, ah a crazy last-minute goal. You know, we've just conceded. And then Jota scores a brilliant finish, left foot, low in the bottom corner.
00:23:28
Speaker
And then the it's it's not the player, but the manager that pulls the hamstring, Karl. Yeah. Yeah, it's um I was at that like game and it was funny because Richarlison was still celebrating when he was clean through on goal, which is still' still one of the the greatest moments of my life. We absolutely battered Tottenham that day and then you know before we bottled it.
00:23:50
Speaker
and yeah i was actually I didn't see that, but I was also shouting at the fourth official at that time too. Yeah.
00:23:59
Speaker
He just attracted moments like that. It was weird. And and and again, you know I love a one i I love a 1-0 more than a 5-4. But it was extraordinary just you know how, around that time, just how things gravitated towards him like that. you know just sort of Just the incredible games. Little things like he got annoyed when people sang his song because they should have been singing the players' names, which I agree with.
00:24:26
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Yeah. It was it was just just an extraordinary thing. And and it's nice to have H2O go to. But I was also annoyed that we didn't beat them 4-0 because we absolutely pulverised them that day. They were so bad, Tottenham.
00:24:40
Speaker
And Liverpool-Tottenham-Anfield is always one of my favourite games ever. But, ah yeah, that was extraordinary. It was an extraordinary thing. And it was a proper ham hamstring pull. It really went. You tell that it's really gone.
00:24:51
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And he looked so hacked off because it meant that he had to stop remonstrating to the fourth official because he was he was in a bit of pain. um But yeah, thought I thought that was just a classic, classic clock moment.
00:25:06
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um You know what? I've lost count of how many we've gone through now. So this is not going to be a top 10. This is obviously going to be clearly more than 10. but so Louis, any others that that kind of spring to mind that you think? I think there are two that i will are that make absolute sense to end with.
00:25:29
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And it's the probably most famous Jurgen Klopp match.
Triumph Over Barcelona: A Historic Night
00:25:35
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And I am, of course, talking about the 4-0 against Barcelona at Anfield. And, you know, there are many stories that are still coming out about that match.
00:25:45
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but um
00:25:48
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He said before the match, this is impossible, but if there's anyone who can do it, it's you. Just show effing balls before the match. And then it became one of the most, ah I mean, probably the best comeback in the Champions League other than Istanbul.
00:26:11
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um it was just it was just incredible it was emotional um you know the corner taken quickly the origi the wijnaldum and the fact that we did all that missing two of our most important players and i think shakiri was actually playing on the left hand side he did yeah robertson went off at half time as well didn't he Yeah, after getting into a fight with Messi.
00:26:37
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And i mean, i just app so I still get emotional whenever I watch that match. I get goosebumps. And it really annoys me because the crowd was so loud that when they uploaded the highlights of it on YouTube, they kind of had to mute the crowd a little bit.
00:26:58
Speaker
But I remember watching it in the living room and just going absolutely mad. And I was overwhelmed by how loud the You'll Never Walk Alone was before the players walked out.
00:27:09
Speaker
And the way Jurgen Klopp went about that game and hearing his team talk and seeing his interviews after the match saying that he was overwhelmed, um it encapsulates his time at Liverpool perfectly in that match.
00:27:25
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there's There's three things about that game which are we all always done't have to be problem, you know, the goals and what happened. um It was the fact that Jürgen said afterwards that they'd noticed that Barstona knock off at corners.
00:27:37
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So that was a planned thing. It wasn't just Trent saying he'd been told to do that. um And also, and no one ever talks about this, it's a hell of a finish. It's not just the fact that he's talking about what a finish that is.
00:27:48
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Top corner from there. It's... a It's Robbo saying to, again, Dez Kelly. This is a Dez Kelly show. so Saying, you know, ah yeah, but Suarez wasn't very happy with you. He said, well, I'm going to Madrid. He's not.
00:28:05
Speaker
That's tremendous. I'm i'm all about that. Bearing mind, Suarez is one of the greatest players I've ever seen, possibly the most talented footballer I've ever seen in flash. And um more than anything, it's the lad who's on minimum wage, who's a steward in the ground, flicking the Vs to Lionel Messi as he runs past him.
00:28:22
Speaker
I didn't know that. i did Oh, there's a there's a famous picture of it. Messi sat on the pitch at the end of the game. i can't believe what's happened. This lad just runs down the touchline and and he just puts two fingers up as he runs past him.
00:28:35
Speaker
Tremendous. It wasn't you, was it, Carl? ah ah Very similar age, but no. Oh, yeah, I see it. I see it. God, wow.
00:28:47
Speaker
That is... is ah thought but It wasn't a steward, it was a ball boy. was a ball boy, yeah. Which means he plays for Liverpool, because the ball boys, they're Liverpool players. They're from the youth team.
00:28:58
Speaker
I would love to know who that ball boy is and what he's up to these days. Give him a lifetime contract just for that, in my opinion. lately Speaking which, can I go very off topic for a second? You know the ball boy who e and has like Eden Hazard kicked at Swansea?
00:29:15
Speaker
He's a multi-millionaire. Yeah, he's a multi-millionaire. I think that was through inheritance, though, from his dad. Yeah, his money, his dad... owned part swansea or something like that but um he's ah he's got a vodka range which is incredibly popular and he's made he's made tens of millions yeah au vodka you've probably seen it in your local corner shop the gold bottles with the blue top yeah i haven't tried it his name his name's charlie obviously other vodka brands are available um unless the sponsor of me i'm not interested
00:29:50
Speaker
Okay. You know, moral of the story, get pushed by a Premier League footballer, become a multimillionaire. Get kicked in the stomach. But did also, mean, because I've slacked off Brendan Rodgers lot, but liked it when they mentioned it to Brendan Rodgers, who's obviously former manager of Swansea.
00:30:02
Speaker
And he said, Charlie, yeah, Charlie used to do that for me all the time. Hold on to the ball if we were winning. I like that he said that. um that let Let's kind of finish off this um ah this this special.
00:30:16
Speaker
i was gonna there's There's a couple of things that I was going to mention. um When we won the Champions League, just the sight of Jurgen Klopp hugging his captain, Jordan Henderson, and just like, you know, both in complete bits, complete tears.
00:30:33
Speaker
I thought, again, just the just pure emotion of it and the relationship between the the manager and the captain, which kind of permeated through the whole team, permeated through the whole club.
00:30:45
Speaker
And I was just going to say the hug, you know, just the Jurgen Klopp hug, which... you know, just became yeah part and parcel of who he was and his management style, um whether it's before the game, whether the before a player's going on or, you know, player coming off.
00:31:02
Speaker
But again, just kind of encapsulated that um relationship with the players. Louis, I'm going to give you the last one to and and the ah episode on.
00:31:16
Speaker
Well, it's the farewell speech at Anfield on the last day of the season. And I think my favorite part of that speech, other than the fact that he said, I'm one of you now, um is when he says change can be a good thing.
00:31:35
Speaker
And he started singing Arna Slott's name. And I think you have the clip, don't you? Yep.
00:31:42
Speaker
I heard the song today a few times and i um you can do that, I have no problem with that. Let's see how that now the response will be.
00:32:09
Speaker
He's got such a booming voice. Yeah. He doesn't need a microphone. I would hate to be Babadou Sakho. and Imagine that shouting at you. um No, i he just got everything absolutely right in that speech.
00:32:26
Speaker
um And the fact that he invited all the fans to sing that to Arna Slott during his farewell speech, a moment that's meant to be about him you know getting the standing ovation,
00:32:38
Speaker
getting the walk down the tunnel of players at the end and getting his awards ah from Liverpool Football Club on the stage.
00:32:50
Speaker
He is willing to accept and invite change. And by the way, I don't think Arna Slott had even been announced as the new manager at that point, ah you know, manager in line. I think he was still at Feyenoord that day, but...
00:33:07
Speaker
He just got everything absolutely right, Jurgen Klopp. And it's it's just his character will forever be written in Liverpool history and football history as well as one of the great managers.
Klopp's Legacy and Premier League Victory
00:33:24
Speaker
And while there will always be managers that have won more in their career than Jurgen Klopp, no one really had his charisma and his likability.
00:33:37
Speaker
It will will never be replicated. And yeah, I just absolutely love that man. Carl, just ah another transformative figure. You know, the comparisons with Shankly, you know, are well known, but um but they are, they're not without foundation, are they?
00:33:56
Speaker
No, because every age has a Shankly character and um you know and he's he's deserving of that. um um One thing we haven't mentioned is the fact he won the league for Liverpool for the first time in 30 years and and and not just won the league, absolutely steamrolled everyone. you but it's It's almost as if you said, ah want the Champions League first and then by default we win the league because we're the best team in Europe. And nineteen twenty I know it didn't end well because of COVID, but...
00:34:24
Speaker
um I went to an awful lot of games that season and I just watched the best Liverpool side I've ever seen. it was, well, definitely up there but but with 88 79.
00:34:36
Speaker
And he gave us the thing that no one else could give us. And he did it just because... I mean, I get all the people are saying, you know, you only won one and Guardiola's won 27 or something like that, but it's not the same. It really isn't the same because of various reasons, but 115 for it's a... start but um it's around well to To do that is just astonishing, to to win the league for Liverpool and to do it like that. where we um I was at Old Trafford when we dropped our first point to the season and we didn't lose a game until like March or something, extreme February or something like that when went to Watford.
00:35:11
Speaker
And that was just just extraordinary. Going to Anfield was like, it's always a thrill anyway, it's always the highlight. when you go to Anfield, but to go there and think, I get to watch that forward line, I get to watch Virgil, I get to watch that midfield, um which was still very... um Around that time, I got off the midfield, not me, I loved that midfield with Fabinho, Henderson and Wijnaldum.
00:35:31
Speaker
And that but that was a start at 11 that people will talk about, and in the way they talk about the 77 side against Rome and things like that. That was a full 11, and that was his team, that was in his image, and that's what he did for this club.
00:35:46
Speaker
Absolutely. i think we'll will leave it there. That is all for today. You've been listening to the Daily Liverpool Podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts.
00:35:59
Speaker
Until next time, from myself, Carl and Louis, thank you for listening.
00:36:09
Speaker
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