Jurgen Klopp is shameless! Liverpool manager's 13 biggest whinges after embarrassing Tottenham replay calls

The German boss often has an excuse when things don't go the Reds' way, and can sound like a man out of touch with reality

On September 30, 2023, Tottenham won a football match against Liverpool, moving to within just one point of Premier League leaders Manchester City in the process. The hosts were good value for the victory, too, having peppered the Reds' goal with shots for the best part of 70 minutes after a red card for Curtis Jones.

But Ange Postecoglou's side didn't get much chance to bask in their 2-1 victory, which was completely overshadowed by a video assistant referee blunder that saw a 34th-minute Luis Diaz' goal wrongly disallowed for offside. Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) issued a statement after the match admitting that a «significant human error» took place, and vowed to launch a full review into the incident.

A few days later, PGMOL released the full audio of the discussions that took place between the match officials, with VAR Darren England saying «check complete» after incorrectly thinking that the on-field decision was 'goal' — which mistakenly signalled to referee Simon Hooper and his team that the original offside decision was correct.

«I never saw a game like this with the most unfair circumstances, crazy decisions,» Jurgen Klopp told Sky Sports in the immediate aftermath of the game, but he insisted that he «wasn't in the mood» to go into too much detail about the Diaz offside in his press conference.

The Liverpool boss had plenty to say when he faced the media again ahead of his team's Europa League clash with Union Saint-Gilloise, though, as he expressed the need «to deal with it in a proper way». Klopp continued: «Some people probably don't want me to say, but not as the