History: It stalks Jurgen Klopp on a daily basis. When he climbs the stairs to his office at Melwood, he sees the European Cup that Liverpool brought home from Istanbul 13 years ago.
On the walls of their training base there are countless pictures of European Cup winners, men whose achievements built this club’s reputation. Klopp is respectful of Liverpool’s heritage but, usually, he sees no point in looking back to what went before.
At lunchtime on Friday, however, when his side avoided Real Madrid and Bayern Munich and were paired with Roma in the Champions League semi-finals, Klopp knew the moment was right to contradict himself.