Some wear their heart on their sleeve, Jurgen Klopp wears his on his face.
The Liverpool boss does not try to hide his emotions, they are usually writ large over his mug, which is dominated by a startlingly large mouth.
When he is happy he smiles like a Cheshire cat and says the word ‘Boom’ directly into the camera.
Just LOVE Klopp. @lozzajenner @rory79 @sarahlavery @chris_beaumont pic.twitter.com/PQkDCAk928
— Russ (@itstheruss) March 2, 2016
When he is pleased with his players, he lets them know. Physically and verbally.
Klopp calling out "Ibe" before running over.. And Ibe's happy smile after.. #Winning #LFC pic.twitter.com/KIIclgjRbj
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But, when he is angry. Sweet merciful jesus in a camper van, it is scary. Properly disturbing.
That snarling, aggressive, intimidating, possibly cannibalistic Klopp dates back to a Champions League game between Borussia Dortmund and Napoli in 2013.
The then Dortmund boss was sent off during the 2-1 defeat after this confrontation with an assistant referee and, in an interview with Martin Samuel of The Daily Mail he reveals what exactly he said to the poor official.
“How many mistakes are you allowed? Because if it’s 15, you’ve got one left,” Klopp recalled.
“By the time I said it, I had already turned round and was on the way to the stand. They had no sense of humour, they were not on my side.”
Frankly, it looks like may have said more in a more threatening manner, but the German reckons that it looks worse because of his “face for sport”.
“When I was a kid, when I played tennis, that’s how I was. I don’t like it, but I have to accept it. I cannot change my face in this situation. People want me to change it. They tell me, ‘Jurgen, you have to, it’s not good’.
“I try with everything I have, but it doesn’t work. I’m that kind of person, I think. I sleep like that.
“If I see a little baby I make the same face. ‘Oh come here, how cute you are’.”
The Reds host the champions Leicester on Saturday week, September 10th. Fail to repeat the feat of last year when they inflicted one of only three League defeats on the Foxes, at Anfield, and Klopp’s charges may be seeing his “face for sport”.
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