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Klopp: My Liverpool Romance (Hardback)

Anthony Quinn

In the first book by a British writer about this extraordinary football manager, lifelong Liverpool fan Anthony Quinn has crafted a uniquely revealing love-letter to Jürgen Klopp.

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Format
Hardback
ISBN
9780571364961
Date Published
05.11.2020
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Summary

‘Immensely readable’ Hannah Jane Parkinson, OBSERVER
‘Informative and emotive’ THIS IS ANFIELD

*As featured in the Guardian’s Biggest Books of Autumn 2020*

In the first book by a British writer about this extraordinary football manager, lifelong Liverpool fan Anthony Quinn has crafted a uniquely revealing love-letter to Jürgen Klopp.

In early March 2020 Liverpool were two wins away from an extraordinary achievement, on course for their first league title win in 30 years – since the heads days of Kenny Dalglish – and likely to seal it in the Merseyside derby against their great rivals Everton. And all this an incredible two months before the season was due to end. Then, as we all know, the season was postponed…

The architect of the club’s great resurgence – including their 2019 UEFA Champions League win – has been Jürgen Klopp. In his personal love-letter to the man, Anthony Quinn, journalist, novelist and life-long Liverpool fan, has written an inspiring and affectionate portrait of the incredible German manager, who came to Liverpool in late 2015, with a growing reputation from his successes at Borussia Dortmund.

Closely following the three month break, as well as the club’s title-clinching return, Quinn offers a uniquely revealing and personal take on this long-awaited triumph.

Critic Reviews

Klopp's story is told in an immensely readable style...Klopp isn’t just for Liverpool, Quinn writes in his final pages. He is for all of us. I reckon this book can be too.

Hannah Jane Parkinson, Observer
Critic Reviews

Quinn’s highly enjoyable book makes room in a short space for a lot more than Klopp.

Blake Morrison, Guardian
Critic Reviews

A compelling gallop of a read and Anthony Quinn perfectly captures the man's endearing likability . . . Quinn loves Klopp with a passion that flies aloof of reason. And right now, as the German leads Liverpool to ever greater achievements, he is not the only one.

Mail on Sunday
Critic Reviews

Grounded in solid Scouse fandom . . . Klopp appears almost obscenely charming — honest, intelligent, sensible and funny — in Anthony Quinn’s revealing billet-doux.

Spectator
Critic Reviews

Klopp has worked his way into Liverpool’s big sentimental heart like a German love bomb. And Quinn couldn’t resist writing an ode, an unabashed fan’s notes: to Klopp and his boyhood city and the ghost of Shankly.

Irish Times
Critic Reviews

Quinn’s slim but satisfying profile of the Liverpool manager is saved from hagiography by the author’s wit and the deft way he weaves his own experiences alongside the account of Klopp’s achievements.

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Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 until 2013 he was the film critic for the Independent. He is the author of ten novels, including The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award; The Streets, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize; Freya, a Radio 2 Book Club choice; Curtain Call,…

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