MATCH INFO
Uefa Champions League last 16, first leg
Liverpool v Bayern Munich, midnight, Wednesday, BeIN Sports
When Jurgen Klopp criticised Manchester City defender Kyle Walker last month for mocking Liverpool's failure to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to seven points, most observers would have sided with the German for taking the moral high ground.
England international Walker posted a tweet on January 31 after Liverpool were held to a 1-1 draw by Leicester City at Anfield the previous evening, a day after title rivals Manchester City suffered a surprise defeat to Newcastle United.
Walker posted a picture of Harry Maguire, scorer of Leicester’s equaliser, talking to his partner Fern Hawkins with the caption: “So basically they thought they were gonna go 7 points ahead...”
The post was later deleted.
Klopp said he was unaware of the post when asked about it at his pre-match press conference, but claimed: “I never celebrated that another team dropped points or lost a game. For me that’s not allowed."
However, those of us with long memories, and the ability to make the most of a quick Google search, will remember Klopp has indulged in a little schadenfreude himself in the past, particularly when it comes at the expense of Bayern Munich, who just so happen to be the next visitors to Anfield, on Tuesday, when Klopp's Liverpool face the German champions in the first leg of the Uefa Champions League last 16.
In March 2016, during a post-match interview in which Liverpool's manager was asked about results in the Premier League, Klopp, unprompted, brought up Bayern's result that weekend, a defeat in the Bundesliga to Mainz, one of Klopp's former clubs.
Klopp has a long history with Bayern. After seemingly holding something of an Indian sign over the Bavarians with five wins in a row during Borussia Dortmund's title-winning campaigns in 2011 and 2012, Klopp's Dortmund would only go on to win three of the next 13.
The most heartbreaking of those defeats would come in the 2013 Champions League final when Arjen Robben's last-minute goal clinched a 2-1 victory.
Klopp's overall record against Bayern reads eights victories in 29 matches while losing twice as many, so it's fair to say Bayern have the upper hand in meetings.
Regardless of your position on a grown man laughing at his own jokes, the fact Klopp was tickled by Bayern's defeat makes his criticisim of Walker for mocking Liverpool's result a little rich.
A case of the pot calling the kettle black, Jurgen?
Some of Darwish's last words
"They see their tomorrows slipping out of their reach. And though it seems to them that everything outside this reality is heaven, yet they do not want to go to that heaven. They stay, because they are afflicted with hope." - Mahmoud Darwish, to attendees of the Palestine Festival of Literature, 2008
His life in brief: Born in a village near Galilee, he lived in exile for most of his life and started writing poetry after high school. He was arrested several times by Israel for what were deemed to be inciteful poems. Most of his work focused on the love and yearning for his homeland, and he was regarded the Palestinian poet of resistance. Over the course of his life, he published more than 30 poetry collections and books of prose, with his work translated into more than 20 languages. Many of his poems were set to music by Arab composers, most significantly Marcel Khalife. Darwish died on August 9, 2008 after undergoing heart surgery in the United States. He was later buried in Ramallah where a shrine was erected in his honour.
MATCH INFO
Uefa Champions League final:
Who: Real Madrid v Liverpool
Where: NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine
When: Saturday, May 26, 10.45pm (UAE)
TV: Match on BeIN Sports
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Founder: John Tsioris and Ioanna Angelidaki
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MATCH INFO
Uefa Champions League last 16, first leg
Liverpool v Bayern Munich, midnight, Wednesday, BeIN Sports
