Blaming BT Sport for injuries, slating Ajax's muddy pitch and moaning about Manchester United's penalty record... after claiming Alisson's 'cold feet' could have caused his howlers against City, here's the LONG list of Jurgen Klopp's most bizarre excuses

If Liverpool were as inventive on the pitch as Jurgen Klopp is with making excuses, their Premier League title defence probably wouldn't be over by February.

After another defeat at Anfield, this time a 4-1 humbling by Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, Jurgen Klopp leapt to the defence of goalkeeper Alisson Becker after two awful errors handed City two goals when the game was delicately poised at 1-1.

'In the second goal he just mishit the ball,' Klopp said. 'There's no real reason, maybe he had cold feet. It sounds funny but could be.