Shortly after taking over at Liverpool, Jürgen Klopp was asked by a foreign journalist if he had come to English football to right its wrongs, prompting images of a Germanic Jesus overturning the Premier League’s money tables, handing out cheap tickets and serving up free beer after momentous victories. Despite being taken aback, Klopp responded as best as a man who had just signed a contract worth up to £7 million per year possibly could, insisting that he is here only to win football matches.

Yesterday, Klopp lost a football match, but afterwards he held up a mirror to an element of fan culture that was totally alien to him. No sooner had Scott Dann’s header hit the back of the net to put Crystal