Forget Fergy Time and Mourinho Minutes! Long live the Klopp Klock!
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is channeling the spirit of Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho as his side continue to pick up late points.
There was a time when the inevitable would happen. Ferguson’s Manchester United or Mourinho’s Chelsea would be losing and you’d almost, almost allow yourself to dream, or to have a chuckle and a rye smile.
And then, like clockwork, the Blues or the Red Devils would start to mount a comeback and you’d get that sinking feeling in your chest and you just know deep down it would all end in three points for the top dogs and a smirking gaffer.
But now Fergie Time is dead! The Mourinho Minutes have vanished into thin air! Long live Klopp Kaos? Klopp Klock? It doesn’t matter, we’ll work out the name later.
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The point is this: Liverpool are now doing what all the great sides in the Premier League have done, they’re winning late and they’re snatching victory from the jaws of defeats and draws.
We all hated it when Chelsea or United would do it, but now we’re the ones pulling these wins out of thin air and doesn’t it feel great? The manager has created a team who never give up, never call it quits and fight until the bitter end and that’s resulted in two Champions League finals and two title challenges in two years.
The Leicester City win isn’t the first time the side has done it this season. Salzburg in the Champions League and Sheffield United are excellent examples of this fight and determination, even if Liverpool were helped by some dodgy keeping against the Blades.
When you compete across four fronts during the domestic campaign a side needs things to go right in order to win, but the best teams manufacture their own luck and that’s what Liverpool are doing right now.
So forget Fergy Time or the Mourinho Minutes or whatever you want to call it, the Klopp Klock is here and it’s our time to reveal in the maddening beauty of it.