2 for me, love your work

You won, get over it

Do we or do we not live in a country where these awful people got their way at almost every major decision point of the century so far? We do! Is it good? No, it is a national calamity. Are they sorry? No they’re not, they’re *absolutely furious* that they haven’t got more and worse.

Has had an injection in his knee this week apparently

With Slot staying out of the Klopp zone of emotion and intensity, it means that grief is left without a direction, and we all know it can often take a destructive turn inward. In summary: we needed Slot last year to win, and ironically we need a Klopp figure this year, but we have Slot.

And then Diogo died. And in that scenario you desperately need a Klopp figure to harness all the tendrils of grief across the squad and the wider club and direct it towards high performance. But Klopp's gone, and Slot only does low key. 3/..

But low-emotion Slot coming into that high-emotion environment was just the tonic the group needed last year. No hype - just play. The intensity of the Klopp years was still there in their mentality and bodies, but now there was also room for cool heads. They won the league. 2/..

Please think about that answer for a minute, Kev. If after that you want to explain exactly how you can assess the effect of grief on an elite team by watching them play, I'm all ears

How on earth can you know.

Directionless confused sulking... often grief looks like that