Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool supporters were well within their rights to boo the national anthem before their 1-0 win over Brentford on Saturday.
As per a Premier League suggestion to all clubs across the division last week, the club took the decision to play God Save the King moments before kick-off at Anfield on Saturday evening.
As was expected, the anthem was roundly booed by supporters across the ground and Klopp says everyone who expressed their opinions were not overstepping the line before Mohamed Salah's goal won the game.
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"First and foremost, today is a big day for England and I respect that a lot," Klopp said. "Everyone who wants to be happy about it and wants to celebrate it is allowed to celebrate it.
"We have, thank God - and not everything now is better than it was in the past - but we have freedom of speech. That means a free opinion as well. It was clear that something like this would happen, I think everyone knew it. And that is allowed, meanwhile. That is fine.
"Nothing else happened and there was not any kind of chants or anything like that. It was just that the people showed [their feelings]. I don't know exactly what it is, some things I know about, not all. But the people of Liverpool in the past were not always happy with how the city or the club was dealt with. So that is what they did."
Klopp added: "I think really today, for all other people who love the day - and I am not sure if you say congratulations to the king but if you did then I do that here - but people who celebrate it, they do that here. Other people who are not happy about it, they say it and then that's it. I think that is absolutely OK."
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