Sunday People

IT’S NOT often Jurgen Klopp gets it wrong – on or off the pitch.

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Klopp won the hearts and minds of Liverpool fans everywhere from the moment he stepped into Anfield in 2015 with an understand­ing and empathy that made him an honorary Scouser from the get-go.

The football rhapsody and big titles that followed merely cemented that bond.

But Klopp scored a damaging own-goal moments before his side went into battle against Newcastle yesterday with his assertion that we should all “calm down” over the European Super League debacle.

That’s easier said than done, Jurgen.

Just ask the few hundred fans who vented their anger (below) as Liverpool’s team bus swung into Anfield before this clash with Steve Bruce’s Geordies.

Klopp struggles to hide his emotions and that’s no bad thing. This time, though, he’s got it wrong.

It’s right that football should move on. But the ESL fiasco shouldn’t be forgotten.

Not when greedy billionair­e owners try to sell football down the river.

And neither should the fury and disappoint­ment of Liverpool fans, who will still be turning up to watch their team when owner John W Henry, his Fenway Sports Group and Klopp are long gone.

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There have been plenty of moments in the past year when Liverpool fans would have given anything to be inside Anfield.

The coronation last July for winning their first league crown in 30 years was a lost moment for every Anfield fan who’d suffered the misery forced on them by the Manchester dominance of, first, United then City.

But yesterday’s game – against a pumped-up Newcastle who grabbed the latest of equalisers through Arsenal loanee Joe Willock to make a bad week worse for Liverpool – must have come a close second for the Kop diehards who love their club to distractio­n.

For they were robbed of a moment of equal if not bigger significan­ce than their title win – the fight for the integrity

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