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Jurgen Klopp gives sport a joyous authenticity
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Jurgen Klopp, whose last game as Liverpool manager was on May 19, had an authenticity which connected with fans.
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Some grim days it feels as if idealism in sport is coming apart at the seams. It’s become a place of increasing pettiness. It rarely speaks a language beyond winning. It still hasn’t shrugged off race. It is stained by corruption. It has a “for sale” sign dangling outside most doors.
Yet sport somehow always offers slivers of redemption. It might come through a losing and laughing Aryna Sabalenka. Or Xander Schauffele, who waits and waits and waits to win a Major and finally does with the last shot of the PGA Championship. Or the son of a travelling salesman from Stuttgart who transports joy to a seaport in north-western England.
