Liverpool are not so much sloppy as playing the popular high-risk game that late-period Alex Ferguson eschewed
Football has changed. Most disagreements between managers and pundits are tedious affairs, rooted in complex and broadly impenetrable codes of respect and of concern only to professional axe-grinders. But the slightly spiky exchange between Roy Keane and Jürgen Klopp after Liverpool’s 3-1 victory over Arsenal on Monday was fascinating, less for the soap opera element of a bullish Klopp interrogating an awkwardly smirking Keane, or for Keane’s dry “touchy … imagine if they’d lost” rejoinder, but for what it revealed about how the two men view the game, and what that says about its evolution.
️ "Did Mr Keane say it was a sloppy performance? Maybe he is speaking about another game..."
Jurgen Klopp v Roy Keane pic.twitter.com/MIw47L6N0o
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