One of the many splendid charms of the Premier League is its unforgiving nature, which is as rarely more pronounced than it is in the last quarter; add to the drama an unhealthy slosh of Coronavirus and there’s enough there to tempt the more fragile amongst us into a tailspin. After today’s 1-1 draw between Brighton and Liverpool, a rather prickly Jürgen Klopp went into full hard-done by manager, live on TV.
It’s quite reassuring that José Mourinho opted to take a far more measured approach, ‘ “Klopp arrived by 2015,” he told The Evening Standard “I arrived in 2004 so what he knows from 2015, I know since 2004. And nothing changes. We have to adapt.”
Mourinho understand who pays his wages, who feeds the game. Klopp needs to have a chat with Liverpool’s board, and stop trying to pick fights with TV presenters – not because it’s embarrassing – because he’s barking up the wrong tree.