Jürgen Klopp has said Sunday’s protests at Old Trafford demonstrated why he appealed for calm in the wake of the European Super League debacle.
The Liverpool manager supports the right of Manchester United fans to protest against the Glazer family’s ownership but believes a line was crossed when some entered the stadium, leading to the postponement of the clubs’ Premier League game, and police officers were injured. Their actions, he claimed, were the reason he called for restraint amid the anger of the Super League fallout, when pundits including Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher urged supporters to unite in protest at owners’ greed.
Klopp said: “I’m an absolute believer in democracy. That means I am happy that people want to tell their opinion. That’s completely fine. But I know in situations like that it doesn’t happen too often that no one gets hurt and that’s why I said the week before, when all the pundits were asking for protests, we need to be careful and calm down and to ask for the right things.
“I heard some policeman got injured and these kinds of things should not happen for sure. You shouldn’t break down the doors. To tell the world what you think about things is completely fine, as long as it is completely peaceful. As far as I know it wasn’t completely peaceful and then it is not right any more.”
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