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24th April 2021
02:38pm BST
"Look, it hurt a lot. Yes our owners made a mistake. We've said it often enough, they know it and these kind of things. "What I didn't like in that moment was it – the Leeds supporters were a good example, they went on us. We had nothing to do with that, we are just the face of the club. Our supporters had nothing to do with that. "We didn't even have the idea, we had nothing to do about it and that’s what for me is really important that we don’t forget that. It's constantly mentioned, Liverpool Football Club, Liverpool Football Club – no, it was not Liverpool Football Club. "It was representatives of Liverpool Football Club, we have to make a difference. That's really very important. I see the pictures the last few days of the Arsenal and Chelsea stuff like this... I really think, you all have to calm down."https://twitter.com/FootballJOE/status/1385926876095463425?s=20 Klopp's comments didn't go down too well with BT Sport anchor Gary Lineker. In a post published on Twitter, Lineker said: "A handful of owners try to tear our game apart and may well try to do so again, and we're just told to 'calm down and move on'. "Huge admirer of Klopp but he's spectacularly tone deaf here. Without the fans of our beautiful game it would be much uglier today." https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/1385924123914870791?s=20 Read more: Alastair Campbell on the five ways to reform football in the wake of the European Super League fiasco
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