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27th December 2021
07:21pm GMT

The Reds boss was keen to highlight that is not opposed to Boxing Day matches, but it is the congestion of sequential games is has an issue with.
"Boxing Day is never in doubt," he said. "We all want to play on Boxing Day, actually. It's a great fixture, everyone loves it. It's great for the people, it's great for the players. Really good for everybody.
"But then after that... We will not stop discussing [it], because if we don't discuss it, it just stays like this.
"Maybe it stays anyway like this... The players need help and help needs to come from other areas."
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It's hard to disagree with Klopp's analysis here.
At any other time of year, the notion that teams should play Saturday and Monday, for example, would be heavily scrutinised. But in England, tradition appears to trump all logic, even at a time when the issue of players' fitness is compounded by a highly contagious variant of Covid-19.
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