This is going to be a brutal winter; crazy schedule, leagues pressing on through COVID...there are so many unknowns but increasingly games are going to be played with B teams as players drop due to injury and the virus. Not to mention AFCON.
I have to say I am extremely pleased with how Klopp has shown leadership in all this. The squad is 100% vaccinated and Jurgen has never been wishy-washy about it like most other managers. It helps that he and I clearly align politically, but he has always been decisive and outspoken in a thoughtful, articulate way (in his second language, no less).
He must be a great guy if he can go studs up and people still call him a great guy. 😛
Excellent post.
Agree completely re Klopp and Covid, - and his stance on players, vaccination and Covid, and indeed, Klopp and wider political perspectives, and very well done to him, not just on speaking out, - clearly and persuasively (and courageously) - and, as
@Lord Blackadder points out, in a language which is not his native tongue, but is a second language - but on the strong and decisive steps he has taken to promote vaccination in the Liverpool squad.
I read an interview on that very topic given by Thomas Tuchel (whom I had wanted, I remind myself, to be appointed Arsenal manager to succeed Arsène Wenger) in the Guardian yesterday, and was rather underwhelmed - to put it mildly - by his marked equivocation on that subject.
As the season proceeds, and the pandemic surges (yet again), while we have to shake off winter, I can only envisage a return to the conditions of last season: Empty stadia, with games played out in front of a iited (and strictly distanced) number of spectators or no spectators at all.
