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‘Impossible’: Liverpool’s ‘unforgettable moment’ makes Jurgen Klopp believe

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There are plenty of times when Jurgen Klopp scarcely has the feel of a 56-year-old: when he is bounding about on the touchline or berating fourth officials, when he is at the centre of celebrations with men decades his junior, when, last week after beating Luton, as his captain Virgil van Dijk smiled on benevolently, it was Klopp who turned to all found stands of Anfield to perform his trademark fist pumps.

There are occasional other moments when perhaps he does: when in November he or when he was pictured on the plane back from Wembley, ; for the record, Klopp insists he only had a sip of beer.

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