John Nicholson: Klopp has his unrealistic pedestal

John Nicholson worries that Jurgen Klopp is already being set up to fall short… I really like Jurgen Klopp and am really excited that he’s Liverpool manager. I enjoy his feel-good vibe, unaffected humour, charisma and energy. In comparison to his predecessor, there’s nothing forced and over-thought about him and he’s good to listen to, even in his second language. But, good grief, that first press conference was such an ugly display of English football media.
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I enjoy Klopp but I don’t mistake him for a God or a prophet. Yet, when a bonafide superstar comes into English football, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Messiah was walking amongst us. The response is so overwhelmingly fawning that it surely nauseates anyone who isn’t living inside the slightly weird, sick little bubble that passes for the football hive mind. To witness the childish giggles and over-loud laughter at anything Klopp said that was vaguely amusing, was puke-inducing. The waterfall of camera shutter noise, every time he smiled was a testament to the agenda everyone had been instructed to push. It even annoyed him a little, forcing him, at one point, to make a plea to stop taking photos so he could hear questions. His plea was, of course, largely ignored, even though after 15 minutes of constant photo-taking, surely they had more than enough images of him. Reporters shout out banal questions that must be hard to answer with any degree of wit and interest. Is he a Special One? No he’s a Normal One!! A ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha… he’s brilliant, isn’t he? And he speaks German as well (swoon) It all smacked of an over-eager boy trying to like everything a girl he fancies likes, trying to laugh at everything she laughs at. In other words, it’s childish. End of Season discount soccer shoes , please click
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The wider effect of this fawning can be to create an almost instant backlash against the man, even though he’s done the precise sum of nothing, apart from exist. All too often, the reaction to a football person is not to the person themselves, but to the media coverage of that person, as though that is one and the same thing. Consequently, people are already queuing up to see Liverpool get beaten in their next game, in order to prick the newcomer’s balloon, or more accurately, prick the press’s latest love child. That’s how this press attitude pollutes our football culture. That and by the use of heinous puns and abbreviations. God save us from the heinous puns and abbreviations. Does anyone like them? Is anyone buying papers to read them? Instead of shortening names in headlines, why not just use a smaller type face and fit the whole name in?