JURGEN: NO REGRETS ON PITCH DASH
JURGEN KLOPP claims he does not regret running on to the pitch to celebrate Liverpool’s 96th-minute winner in the Merseyside derby.
Klopp was hit with an £8,000 fine and a warning about his behaviour after accepting the FA’s misconduct charge.
Yet the Liverpool boss enjoyed his celebration (above) and knows such emotional outbursts are part of his make-up.
“No, I don’t regret it, but it should not have happened,” said Klopp.
“I did it. I broke a rule, I pay for it. That’s how it is.”
Klopp said he had not run on to the pitch since he was in charge of Mainz 14 years ago and joked he hopes it will be another 14 years before he does it again. “There were 14 years between the first one and the last one,” said the German.
“It cannot happen any more, at least for the next 14 years.” Everton boss Marco Silva supported Klopp and claimed he should not have been fined.
“He shouldn’t be, but it is the FA who decides,” he said. “Now I have seen it, I don’t think it matters. “The emotion at the end of that game was normal. To celebrate in that way was normal. It was emotional, not something he planned.”