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Success, wit, passion and a remarkable set of teeth – what one of football’s greatest managers brought to Liverpool
You don’t have to be born in Liverpool to support Liverpool FC. The brand is global, the owners are American, the fans are as likely to come from Benares as from Bootle. With the exception of Trent Alexander-Arnold, the star players also hail from elsewhere. So does the current manager, Jürgen Klopp. In the early postwar years, the presence of a German at an English club would have gone down badly: as Anthony Quinn points out, when Bert Trautmann signed for Manchester City, a crowd of 20,000 turned out in protest. Now, Brexit notwithstanding, all that’s behind us – though it helps that Klopp’s command of English (supposedly developed by watching Friends) and sense of humour have made him such a natural fit.
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You don’t have to be born in Liverpool to support Liverpool FC. The brand is global, the owners are American, the fans are as likely to come from Benares as from Bootle. With the exception of Trent Alexander-Arnold, the star players also hail from elsewhere. So does the current manager, Jürgen Klopp. In the early postwar years, the presence of a German at an English club would have gone down badly: as Anthony Quinn points out, when Bert Trautmann signed for Manchester City, a crowd of 20,000 turned out in protest. Now, Brexit notwithstanding, all that’s behind us – though it helps that Klopp’s command of English (supposedly developed by watching Friends) and sense of humour have made him such a natural fit.
Related: How Friends taught the world to speak English – from Jürgen Klopp to Korean pop megastars
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