Match Day Thread 2015/16 Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

It's because he's in tune with "normal" football fans and we're just "detached", ironically

We should be more "normal"

 

If we're using the apprpriate margin for 'average' then a lot of lower league teams will feel they would have had a chance had they been in the division too.

 

True...but then your lot leave the pitch to boos and jeers like the pantomime villains, Chelsea leave to the loudest guffaws in panto history and Everton players leave to the audience complaining about the unnecessary grass stains on their kecks.... We all have our crosses to bear (although most of our crosses don't even beat the first man )

 

If you don't think the result was relevant to the look on the players' faces then I'm afraid you don't have a clue Jimmy.

Klopp may have been thanking the fans for staying to the end (which in itself is a bit desperate and a sad indictment on the attitude of a lot of fans) rather than celebrating a point but the players looked embarrassed as they were linking arms and giving it the big hurrah after scraping a draw at home to West Brom. The "show" was the kind of thing teams do when they've won a crucial game or a trophy. It would have been far better, and a lot less embarrassing, if Klopp had just told them to go over and applaud the fans as many teams do every weekend.

The suggestion that Liverpool have somehow set new ground by acknowledging the fans is quite frankly ludicrous. Perhaps people think that as it was such an over the top, contrived display of false appreciation that it got a lot of coverage. Google "football players applaud fans" and click on Images.

 

Bang on Astro.

At the end of the day, we all know why Klopp did it and it's the first step to rebuilding the connection with fans and the atmosphere.

 

and apparently your lot usually leave an empty stadium! The fact that the fans hung around this time was cause for celebration!

 

Quite amusing how rival fans are obsessed with what we do lol. And they call us desperate for thanking fans for support ...

 

When I said "you" Astro, I meant you. I know you have your disciples who defend your every utterance but I don't lump them in with "you". Your take on football is almost unique.

 

#jealous

apparently!

 

#almost

 

Indeed, #almost. There are a few more like you wearing the shirts of other clubs.

 

Klopp's idea, Spontaneous not pre-rehearsed or celebratory.

"And the German said the key bit of his reaction was in thanking the fans for their part in securing a hard won point.

“At the end I just wanted to say thank you, I don't know if this is normal in England or things like this."

It's not the "normal" thing to do in England but its better than having a manager that sits flaccidly through whole games with his manbag on his lap.

 

I personally think the rivals are more right than our lot.

If the guy asked for the fans to give a big athmosphere and they stayed then the lot of them need to go and thanks the fans for staying... but.... what i saw was celebrating. theres nothing to celebrate in a 2-2 v west brom... at all... nothing.

thank the fans, look embarrassed to serve up such ****e.... but don't celebrate. we are supposedly a big club.... c'mon utd fans are booing thier drivel who are at least still 4th despite being such rot

 

LVG playing Angry Birds during games instead of instructing the team may be unacceptable but it doesn't make what Klopp did any less embarrassing!

 

He's paid £250m in micro-transactions and has still only has 1 star on the first level because he dropped the phone and #luckedout

 

The two "FACTS" rants in one season from van growl is highly embarrassing.

 

Yawn.

If you'd have bothered to have actually digested what I said, I clearly said I understood what he was trying to achieve and that his motives were right, but that the execution was OTT and came across as contrived.

Oh and btw, I think I'm far better placed to talk about match going fans than you love x

 

I didn't see celebrating. The main message I saw was that the players were holding hands, but not that the hands were up. Also walking not running. Also no chest sliding towards the fans.

 

Show me where it's documented that after a run of the mill game that he did the arms aloft, hand holding cringe on a weekly basis at Dortmund.

Thanks x

 

I'm unlikely to defend LVG.

I did think though that you Liverpool fans were big believers in "fakht" rants (even if Stevie GBH finds them embarrassing).