I will probably feel obliged to watch this unless I can persuade my wife to let me do something more pleasant, like mowing the lawn. But it can only end badly because a win for either club will leave a bad taste. The taste would be worse if Real won but something about Klopp and the fan culture he whips up seems very exclusionary and a bit nasty. I admire Klopp for having found a style that beats better financed and more aesthetically pleasing technical sides (most obviously Man City in the SF) but there is also something a bit frenetic there and it's always a gamble whether their defence will turn up (or if they don't, the attack will make up for the goals conceded).
There's also a problem that a Liverpool win revives the myth that the club still has some authentic working class soul that Shankly would identify: it doesn't, surely? It's just a case of a coach finding a strategy and formation to win against bigger clubs with better players, as Rafa did in 2005 and (almost) 2007.
There's also a problem that a Liverpool win revives the myth that the club still has some authentic working class soul that Shankly would identify: it doesn't, surely? It's just a case of a coach finding a strategy and formation to win against bigger clubs with better players, as Rafa did in 2005 and (almost) 2007.
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