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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: Jurgen Klopp For Ever
« Last post by Red-4-Ever on Today at 03:47:51 pm »Thanks for the comments folks - always appreciated.
12C - like you I am old enough to remember Shanks resigning. I was 13 I guess but already, without fully realising why, I perceived him as an almost divine, semi-mythological creature. It helped a little bit coming from Huddersfield since Shankly was still remembered in the town (he'd brought Denis Law down from Scotland to play for the team for godssake!). It was summer holidays when he left Liverpool. I remember sitting on the back steps of our house in the sunshine and simply not being able to comprehend what had happened and why he had gone. Mum was no use. She didn't understand footy (although I'm pretty sure she knew who Shanks was). None of my mates in the neighbourhood were Liverpool fans. I had to wait for my dad to get back from work to try and make sense of it all. That kid in the centre of Liverpool who simply doesn't 'get' it stood for us all. Still does. "You're having me on, aren't ya?"
So I knew immediately how to feel when Jurgen dropped his bombshell. But I can fully understand why young supporters are, or were, in utter confusion. It's the best job in the world after all, and Jurgen keeps saying so. So why......?
He's up there with Bill. We know that already. But like I said in the OP the truth of that statement will become even clearer as the years go by and we get more perspective.
For those going to the match tomorrow, enjoy and absorb every moment. It will be an amazing occasion. Quite genuinely, it will be the Match of the Day and therefore Match of the Season.
A beautifully written and magnificent tribute to the man in the OP, thanks Yorky.
In the immediate aftermath of Jurgen's announcement the video of that kid from '74 was going through my head and I kept thinking of the parallels...both men certainly seem to be cut from the same cloth and Jurgen will rightly be remembered for the impact he had in the same way Shanks is decades later.