Kop boss calls for discipline and social distancing to give Britain a chance to heal before thinking about playing again

JURGEN KLOPP has told fans they can help speed up football’s return by following the advice to stay at home.

Klopp says football and Liverpool’s title challenge are unimportant while the world battles against the coronavirus.

Football is on hold until April 30 at least and the Reds boss claims it can only restart if everyone follows the Government’s advice to remain safe indoors.

“We said it now often enough, and I think everybody knows, football is not the most important thing in the world,” said Klopp. “100 per cent not.

“In this moment it’s clear what is. But the only way to get football back as soon as possible, if that’s what the people want, the more disciplined we are now the earlier we will get, piece by piece by piece, our life back.

“That’s how it is. There is no other solution in the moment. We have to be disciplined by ourselves, we have to keep the distance to other people.

“We can still do some things, not a lot, but we have to just calm down a little bit with things.

“Yes, outside the economy has to carry on, that will start again. But the lower the number will be when we go out again, the number of people infected, that’s what I understand, the better it is.

“It will not be like nobody any more after the next few weeks, but the curve will flatten. That’s the most important thing. We have to give our people in the hospitals, our doctors, the chance to treat the people with serious issues concentration.

“And then at one point we will play football again, 100 per cent.”

Klopp says he has watched the Taken trilogy again to pass the time as well attempting the Tik Tok dance posted online by Alex OxladeChamberlain with full

and his girlfriend and Little Mix star Perrie Edwards.

Unlike James Milner he has not mown his lawn after the midfielder posted a joke picture online of him cutting his grass with a pair of child’s scissors, while measuring the length with a ruler.

“I didn’t cut the grass, but I tried the dance of Ox!” he told Liverpool’s website on a video call from his home. “Not as bad as you probably think!

“I watched a few movies. I watched the Taken trilogy again. You do a lot of things you usually don’t do. I’m still in that period.

“It’s very important in these times we all show we take this situation seriously, but we are human beings.

“When you are at home, you cannot do something to help outside.

“We are not health workers, we don’t work in a supermarket. You have to keep your own mood up and to keep the mood up for other people.

“If the boys do anything on Instagram, as long as it’s in a legal frame I’m overly happy about it. It just shows they are still cheeky and all that stuff. I like it a lot.”

Liverpool have launched an emergency food bank appeal and Klopp claims it is important that clubs show leadership.

“I think in the moment a lot of wonderful things happen out there and we all know that this is a special club,” added the German.

“There are special people working here so I’m not surprised to see a response with a big heart and love that. I know other clubs are doing it as well.

“Football clubs showing responsibility, I like that a lot and that’s what we all have to do.

“In moments like this you have to be generous. Generous with words, with feelings and with money of course as well.

“That’s what we do, that’s clear. Wherever we can help we try to help, 100 per cent.”

‘Football clubs that show responsibility, I like that a lot. That is what we must do’