It’s all gone pear shaped really for Klopp since he came out on the Monday after the FA Cup Final and spoke up for the louts that booed the Duke of Cambridge.
Talk about bad karma. You wouldn’t have a moments luck after such an ill advised intervention.
Helmuth suffered an aneurysm in his right arm shortly after that European final which effectively finished his career. There were rumours that the aneurysm was caused by a beating inflicted by Ceaucescu connected heavies. It was alleged that Valentin Ceaucescu who ran the club was jealous of all the attention that Duckadam was getting. There was a story printed in the Irish Times (I think) that he was beaten up because a Real Madrid fan sent him a Mercedes and he refused to hand it over to Ceaucescu.
Duckadam was an ethnic German, a Banat Swabian to be precise. The Swabians migrated to Banat in the 18th century after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire and the flight of Muslims from the region. It was then the least densely populated area in Europe. Intriguingly some Banat Swabians chose to stay in Romania after WW2 and as Romania eventually chose to follow a less severe policy of repatriation, those that stayed weren’t forced to repatriate to Germany.
Just saw that in a group chat. Is there a genuine chance of this? Jesus it would be some treat to witness a Liverpool Champions League game in the Aviva.