Nein, nein, nein, Jurgen... you telling us all to calm down only masks the cracks of traitorous week
and move on’. Huge admirer of Klopp, but he’s spectacularly tone deaf here. Without the fans of our beautiful game, it would be much uglier today.”
Well said, Gary.
And if everyone calms down and moves on, how long before a group of owners, whether a current lot or a future lot, try a similar stunt?
This is not the time to calm down, this is the time to get angrier.
Klopp tries to make a distinction between the institution and its owners.
“… it was not Liverpool
Football Club, it was representatives of Liverpool Football club – we have to make a difference.”
Try telling Henry and his mates that they are ‘representatives’.
Try telling the Glazers that they are ‘representatives’ of Manchester United.
These guys are steeped in an American tradition of owners doing what they like with their sports clubs.
After Robert Irsay, the owner of the Baltimore Colts, moved his NFL side to Indianapolis in a midnight flit in 1984, he told reporters: “It’s not your ball team, it’s not their ball team.
“It’s my family’s ball team. I paid for it.” And no matter what they say to the contrary, that is probably how Henry and the Glazers think.
That is why fans must hold them to account.
That is why they should not calm down.
Klopp is concerned that players will feel targeted, but, again, he is mistaken.
He will know better than anyone that, once the whistle sounds and this ground is full, the support will be as passionate and as unrelenting as it has always been.
He can bank on that.
Klopp can also bank on no one calming down any time soon.
The billionaires who own six of England’s biggest clubs betrayed their fans last week.
If going on about it winds people up, tough.