Kieran Shannon: Don't mock Pep Lijnders for giving us a rare glimpse inside

Writing in the foreword of Intensity, Klopp, with his customary self-confidence and generosity, explains that while Lijnders was “tentative” and “conscientious” when first floating the project past his boss, they concluded that the merits and motives of the book were too good and too pure to dismiss.
Kieran Shannon: Don't mock Pep Lijnders for giving us a rare glimpse inside

BEHIND THE SCENES: Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp (left) and Pepijn Lijnders.

Poor Pep Lijnders. There he was merely offering the kind of insiders’ perspective that for a brief time long ago we used to get in Gaelic Games, is quite common now in documentary form in his own sport, and is still the norm on Stateside where almost every championship-winning coach either writes or contributes to a how-we-did-it book.

Yet now that Liverpool have had a wobbly opening month to the season, the likes of Didi Hamann, possibly from all his time breathing the same Montrose air and sitting in the same seats as a host of Sunday Game pundits socialised in the closed, often-paranoid environs of the GAA dressing room, is now publicly speaking in the vernacular of that very dressing room: He shouldn’t have dun that book.

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