I’m part of a WhatsApp chat dedicated to Liverpool football club. The group picture? Jürgen Klopp holding the Premier League trophy aloft. Our first league title in 30 years. The first I’d been able to celebrate in my lifetime, as a fan who kicked a ball from the age of five and at one point played for the club’s girls’ team.
We are bereft. Since Klopp arrived in 2015, much hyped after his Bundesliga successes and much welcomed after a period of diminishing returns at Anfield, the German has won a panoply of honours.