Last Sunday, a day before David Coote’s world began to fall apart, a prominent figure in the world of broadcasting was talking to me about Jurgen Klopp.
‘Never trust anyone who smiles with their mouth but not their eyes,’ he said.
It was a reasonable point. Klopp is indeed a bit like that. He was indeed a bit like that when he worked in the Premier League. There was always a lot more going on beneath the surface than Klopp perhaps wished us all to know. There was, in truth, often a hint of latent malevolence about the former Liverpool manager.