Football Daily | Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola: a rivalry without personal beef

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You’ll Never Walk Alone. Superbia In Proelio. This Means More. Blue Moon Rising. Red v Blue. Kopites v Cityzens. For the last time in Our League, Jürgen Klopp will take on Pep Guardiola. Cue intro: the Liverpool poet, celebrating Jürg via the medium of folksy verse, and sound-clash that with a braggadocio Manc rapper in big coat employing a groin-led swagger. Next: zoom in on Anfield. (Any TV execs looking for a freelance director, get in touch with Football Daily.) Cliche aside, this is a big one. It’s way too early in the season to be the title decider, not least because Arsenal are racking up big wins as the Third Way, but it holds historical significance. It has been the most glorious Liverpool era since Bobby and Sheila Grant were household names, and yet, even if they win the title come May, the Klopp era will conclude with two titles compared to Guardiola’s five. And from one of Liverpool’s greatest teams.

Re: FFP issues (yesterday’s Football Daily). I feel for Big Website’s undoubtedly more talented journalists. Hunter Davies got to sit in a dressing room and observe the complex psychological interactions between Mike England and Cyril Davies. Your modern football hack usually has to write about issues every bit as fascinating as an offset mortgage” – Jon Millard.

Re: Leicester City’s simultaneous here/not here strategy of attempting to avoid potential FFP punishment. Schrödinger’s Fox?” – Steve Malone.

With all this tea-timely chatter about Colorado, our local pro club (Football Daily letters passim), it feels worth sharing with readers that the Rapids’ home stadium was closed for a while in 2019 by a bunch of groundhogs carrying the actual plague” – Ivan Maddox.

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