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15th April 2017
01:37pm BST

"Everybody can imagine it was a difficult moment for me because I don't know how often I was in the team hotel with Dortmund. I know exactly the road. A lot of my friends were in the bus. "I was really concerned, scared for them. In the first moment it was a bit of relief, then you hear the more information you get the more serious it got. "I had contact with people but I didn't want to bother them with my silly questions. I was waiting with the rest of the world."Clearly, as their meetings in last season's Europa League have shown, Liverpool and Dortmund share a special bond. Aside from Klopp, we can all vividly remember supporters of the two clubs joining together at Westfalenstadion and Anfield for renditions of You'll Never Walk Alone - a song fans of both clubs traditionally sing prior to kick off. As well as this, you may also recall the tribute that travelling Dortmund fans played to the Hillsborough tragedy on their visit to Anfield last season. Coming on the eve of the 27th anniversary of the disaster, Dortmund fans prepared a '96' mosaic in the Anfield away end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwOGektzhLU This week, a year on from that particularly memorable game of football, Dortmund have marked the 28th anniversary of the Hillsborough anniversary with a tweet. Featuring an image of the two sides gathered on the Anfield centre circle for a moment's remembrance that night, the tweet simply reads: 'Never forgotten. JFT96'. https://twitter.com/BVB/status/853192229481058304 In a week where Dortmund narrowly avoided a tragedy of their own, this seems all the more poignant.
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