He lost two finals wearing a suit, but it’s not superstition stopping Jurgen Klopp getting dressed up on Sunday… just that he “couldn’t care less” what he looks like!
The Liverpool boss wore his Dortmund club attire at Wembley when losing the 2013 Champions League Cup final, and was again suited and booted in 2016 when Manchester City beat his Liverpool team in the Carabao Cup final.
And that will be the last time he goes formal, explaining that he would wear a swim suit to the final so long as his team won!
“I am not overly superstitious. I will not wear a suit, but not because I am superstitious," he said.
“With the Champions League in 2013, honestly, it is really silly but someone told me that it was expected to wear a suit on the touchline and then when I saw the first coach next to me without a suit I thought: ‘Are you kidding me?!’
“I am pretty sure that someone told me before the [League] Cup final that I needed to wear a suit.
"That was the moment I stopped it. No, I will not wear a suit for a football game unless it is a rule.”
The reason he says, is simple: he’s not interested in how he looks… admitting that his get-up was “completely outrageous” after winning the Champions League with Liverpool in 2019.
And he knows he can get away with being a scruff, just so long as he keeps winning: “I could stand there in swim shorts as long as we win people will be happy. If we don’t win, it will be a big story.
“If we win it no one will talk about it. I will not wear swim shorts though! That will not happen.
“If I look back on the pictures after the Champions League final - and how I look and the pictures after we became champions - I couldn’t care less.
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“So I look completely outraged, hat there, cap over there, bad shave, that is really not cool to be honest. It is not that I want to look like that, but it just happened.
"It is not a problem. I don’t go as a tramp to a wedding or whatever.
"There are things you have to wear, but if I have a free choice [I won’t].”
