{"id":293199,"date":"2023-10-04T22:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T22:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=293199"},"modified":"2023-10-04T22:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T22:25:30","slug":"ian-herbert-klopp-is-sounding-like-a-man-losing-his-grip-on-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/ian-herbert-klopp-is-sounding-like-a-man-losing-his-grip-on-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"IAN HERBERT: Klopp is sounding like a man losing his grip on reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>IAN HERBERT: Jurgen Klopp is sounding like a man losing his grip on reality. What a breathtaking sense of entitlement and extraordinary lack of perspective to demand a replay<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Liverpool saw Luis Diaz have a goal ruled out against Tottenham after a VAR error<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Reds boss Jurgen Klopp called for the game to be replayed due to the mistake<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Click HERE to listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jurgen Klopp is one of those rare individuals who has taken us beyond the beige, self-serving propaganda of football press conferences, these past five years or more.<\/p>\n<p>He is the individual who offered the opinion that anti-vaxxers putting lives at risk were \u2018no better than drunk drivers\u2019. Who said of the European Super League, at a time when his own club\u2019s owners were pursuing it: \u2018I don\u2019t like it and I don\u2019t want it to happen.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, his assertion that Liverpool\u2019s match at Tottenham should be replayed because Luis Diaz was denied a goal \u2014 presaging the latest moral outrage to sweep football \u2014 does not enhance his reputation as a sage.<\/p>\n<p>Quite the opposite, in fact, given that the preposterous suggestion descended deeper and deeper into the realms of fantasy as he extended his case.<\/p>\n<p>The main objection to his proposition of a replayed fixture \u2014 the precedent that such a decision would set \u2014 was as clear as the nose on his face. It would be just another weapon for managers to go armed with, each fulminating that their case was more deserving than the last.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/22\/76179343-12595143-image-a-108_1696455385240.jpg\" height=\"404\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jurgen Klopp called for Liverpool&#8217;s match with Tottenham to be replayed after a VAR farce<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s something more fundamental to it all than that. For as long as 22 individuals have been kicking a ball around with competitive intent on patches of grass, football matches have been settled by the beautiful, unpredictable, messy sequence of variables which occur across the span of 90 minutes or more. Including officials\u2019 errors.<\/p>\n<p>And now, having been robbed of that spontaneity of the game by the joyless, soul-deadening impact of VAR, we are being asked to agree that an entire match might need to be replayed?<\/p>\n<p>What a breathtaking sense of entitlement. And what an extraordinary lack of perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Klopp extemporised on Diazgate extremely calmly, and yet it was as he elaborated on the consequences of Darren England\u2019s catastrophe in the VAR booth that he really did sound like a man lacking a grip on reality.<\/p>\n<p>The goal Tottenham scored, two minutes after the Liverpool injustice, has also been bugging him, he disclosed. If the Diaz goal had counted, Klopp reasoned, then Tottenham would have kicked off from the centre circle, not from a position in their own half\u2026 and then Liverpool might not have conceded in the way they did.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018All things depend on each other,\u2019 Klopp reckoned. \u2018If Liverpool had scored and the game would have started in the centre of the pitch and not where it started, and all these kinds of things\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/22\/76179339-12595143-image-a-109_1696455420619.jpg\" height=\"391\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>VAR audio showed the officials were aware of their mistake shortly after the match restarted<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me? And where, precisely, does this calculation of cause and effect actually end? How far can a sense of injustice actually stretch?<\/p>\n<p>It would be one thing if Klopp\u2019s myopia existed in isolation \u2014 the utterances of an uber-competitive manager who is a serial winner because he pursues every grievance to the end of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>But the call for a replayed match \u2014 and the inevitable refusal to grant him one \u2014 will only serve to fuel the hysteria and conspiracy theories about Liverpool\u2019s injustice which have been circulating since Saturday. This story has been ablaze for five days now and still shows no sign of dying down.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that does serve a useful purpose for Klopp. Had he observed on Wednesday that mistakes happen, expressed a hope that those responsible might learn, and asked that the world now move on, the sense of a Liverpool injustice would recede. By maintaining the narrative, he keeps the pressure on officials.<\/p>\n<p>Those who run Liverpool\u2019s games \u2014 next week, next month, next year \u2014 will know full well that they are encountering a manager whose requested form of justice has been declined.<\/p>\n<p>Klopp wanted to make it clear that no one should be going after Saturday\u2019s VAR booth unfortunates.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018They made a mistake and felt hurt that night, I\u2019m sure. That\u2019s enough for me,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>But heaven help the ones who err in his presence next time.<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12595143\/IAN-HERBERT-Jurgen-Klopp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAN HERBERT: Jurgen Klopp is sounding like a man losing his grip on reality. 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