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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Jacob Leeks

World Cup final referee made Jurgen Klopp furious during Liverpool Champions League defeat

The World Cup final is the biggest spectacle in football, but Jurgen Klopp may not want to be watching as Argentina face France on Sunday.

The Liverpool boss may have bad memories from the man in the middle, having previously had a run-in with the referee for the final. Polish official Szymon Marciniak has been handed the prestige job of taking charge of Sunday's game at the Lusail Stadium.

He will be a name familiar to Liverpool fans, having infamously clashed with Klopp during a defeat to Atletico Madrid in the Champions League in 2020. The two sides met in the last 16 of the competition in the February of that year, with the first leg held in Spain.

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