Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp 'could not act differently' in heated post-match Everton interview
Klopp: 'I felt like this in this moment and I am not an actor, I cannot act differently'
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Your support makes all the difference.Jürgen Klopp, the Liverpool manager, has insisted he “cannot change” the way he acts in the heat of the moment following his tetchy television interview after Sunday's Merseyside derby.
Klopp took exception to Sky Sports touchline reporter Patrick Davison's line of questioning after a late Wayne Rooney penalty saw his side held to a 1-1 draw with Everton at Anfield.
Rooney cancelled out Mohamed Salah's opening goal from the spot after referee Lee Probert had controversially penalised Dejan Lovren for a push on Everton's Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
Klopp later asked Davison for his opinion on the decision during a tense post-match interview and when the reporter said he agreed with Probert, the Liverpool manager told him he only wanted to speak to those “who have a little bit of understanding about football”.
“I would give the same interview now,” Klopp said on Tuesday, at his press conference to preview the following day's meeting with West Bromwich Albion.
“The information I had to give would be the same. Now I am completely relaxed but it was five minutes after the game and I was not relaxed.
Klopp added: “It is always the same, you look into the eyes of the journalist and see he is not interested what you feel and sometimes that feels not that cool. That is why I reacted why I reacted. It is nothing, I didn't use any words I have to take back.
“I don't like it but I am pretty sure I cannot change it because I felt like this in this moment and I am not an actor, I cannot act differently. But meanwhile I can keep myself calm that nothing serious happens in situations like this.
“I don't think anyone remembers it to be honest or watch it back and say 'That was hilarious' or 'It was legendary'. It was just an interview, nothing else.”
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