Klopp: My Liverpool Romance

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In early March 2020 Liverpool were two wins away from an extraordinary achievement, on course for their first league title win in 30 years - since the heads days of Kenny Dalglish - and likely to seal it in the Liverpool derby against their great rivals Everton. And all this an incredible two months before the season was due to end. Then, as we all know, the season was postponed. What will happen next, we don't know, for now, but the architect of the club's great resurgence - including their 2019 Uefa Champions League win - has been Jurgen Klopp. In his personal love-letter to the man, Anthony Quinn, journalist, novelist, Scouser and life-long Liverpool fan, has written an inspiring, affectionate and hugely revealing portrait of this incredible German manager, who had performed a similar job at his previous club Borussia Dortmund, where he is still idolised despite his departure. Less full biography and more love-letter, Klopp will also be, like Fever Pitch, a study of the author himself, and of the universal appeal of sport, fandom and obsession.

Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to 2013 he was the film critic for the Independent. He is the author of six novels: The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award; Half of the Human Race; The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize; Curtain Call, which was chosen for Waterstones and Mail on Sunday Book Clubs; Freya, a Radio 2 Book Club choice, and Eureka.

The fact that Anthony Quinn is a Red and he shows enough passion for the game and the club gives the book additional value... Can I recommend it to other Liverpool fans? Yes, because it's interesting and you won't be bored for a second. If you find it in your closest bookstore, take the risk and spend a few pounds on it...Trust me, there's no risk. -- LFC History Blog Both informative and emotive, there's plenty to sink your teeth into in this distinctive look at a manager who has forged a long-lasting legacy everywhere he has hung his hat. -- This is Anfield Grounded in solid Scouse fandom . . . Klopp appears almost obscenely charming -- honest, intelligent, sensible and funny -- in Anthony Quinn's revealing billet-doux. -- Spectator Quinn's writing shows what immense capacity for care and love men can have. Liverpool, the most un-English of all England's footballing cities, legitimises love beyond reason, and as long as that is true, books like this will be written: pages and pages of love. -- New Statesman Quinn strikes a balance as someone who knows what he's talking about, yet also knows there is more to life than football. -- i Newspaper Immensely readable . . . Klopp isn't just for Liverpool, Quinn writes in his final pages. He is for all of us. I reckon this book can be too. -- Hannah Jane Parkinson