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Coach Klopp: "I will never understand why you sing a song against something in a football stadium"
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Team manager Jürgen Klopp from the top English football club Liverpool FC criticized their own fans for homophobic chants and prompted them to rethink.
The chants of the song "You'll Never Walk Alone" would give you goose bumps and give you a boost.
"The other songs are a complete waste of time, and if you believe in what you're singing, then you're an idiot," said Klopp.
In the Premier League opening game last Saturday, supporters of the Reds had insulted professional Billy Gilmour of host Norwich City as a "hustler".
The club condemned the behavior, Klopp met on Thursday with Paul Amann, founder of the Liverpool LGBT fan group "Kop Outs".
"I'll never understand why you sing a song against something in a football stadium," the coach was quoted as saying on the club's Twitter account.
And further: “I never understood that.
I never liked it. "
Especially at Liverpool such excesses are completely unnecessary.
"We probably have the best songbook in the world," said Klopp.
It is therefore easy to stop singing the offending song.
"We can now decide: This is no longer our song," he said, he wasn't sure whether the fans would listen to him, "but it would be nice."
Klopp remembered mistakes from old times.
“I'm 54 now and when I was 20 we said so many things that we didn't even think about,” said the former professional. “And now, 34 years later, thank God we learned that it just wasn't is right to say something like that. "
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