Jurgen Klopp’s Groundhog Days – Defeating Deja Vu and the Dross

Srijandeep Das

5th January 2018 | 3:06 AM

Sun rises in the East and Liverpool concedes goals to tin-pot teams. Jurgen Klopp was trapped in a perpetual purgatory until one fine day deja vu gave in.

Glory of Jürgen Klopp's Groundhog Days - Defeating Deja Vu and the Dross

Phil: It’s the same thing your whole life. “Clean up your room! Stand up straight! Pick up your feet! Take it like a man! Don’t mix beer and wine, ever! And oh yeah, don’t drive on the railway track!”

Gus (sobering up): Well, Phil. That’s one I happen to agree with.

Phil (driving into the rail tracks):  I don’t know, Gus…Sometimes, you just have to take the big chances.

A train approaches.

Phil: I bet he’s going to swerve first…

Playing at Turf Moor in the pissing wind was always going to be a bumpy ride. After Johann Berg Gudmundsson’s 87th equaliser to Sadio Mane’s spanker, the result had the choo-choo-ing inevitability of a headlong train, and Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool were staring right down the tunnel.

Suddenly, I felt that my socks weren’t as warm as they were a minute ago. And my stomach lurched, vehemently meaning to deport my lunch for too much salsa in its constituency. My bladder, with all the retentive capacity of Donald Trump’s gob, started to make faces. And I had to rush to the loo.

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