The dawning of the age of Klopp was a fevered,concussive, inconclusive affair. But these are early days for the German’s red blueprintRevolutions rarely arrive in timely fashion. In the buildup to this match the sense of pre-Klopp euphoria surrounding the arrival of Liverpool’s original manager had something proselytizing about it, or something of the 19th-century revivalist roadshow. Aslan is here. The snowdrops are peeping through. The hundred-year winter will soon be at an end.
In the event the dawning of the age of Klopp was a fevered,concussive, inconclusive affair. As was always likely to be the case given that after a week in the job Klopp was essentially picking up by the scruff the cadaver of Brendan Rodgers’ mature team and marching it around White Hart Lane in front of him.
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Source: theguardian.com