Stressed, adrenaline pumping and still soaked in sweat. It's no wonder Jurgen Klopp blew his top, writes IAN LADYMAN

One of the most revealing half hours of years spent in this trade was spent alone in the company of Sir Alex Ferguson. The circumstances are not particularly important but the subject matter was, at least in part, related to how the Manchester United manager dealt with the media.

Ferguson, still in his prime at the time, was particularly animated when it came to the issue of post-match TV interviews, or 'trial by camera' as he called it.

'You have no idea what it can be like,' Ferguson said.

'You've just lost a game and there you are in front of the camera with the whole world peering into your soul.'

Ferguson was a fearsome adversary for anybody fortunate enough to be holding camera, microphone or even pen and paper in his vicinity. The Scot could be an intimidating man, an aura that only grew in direct parallel with his success. He didn't need friends in the media during the later years. All the allies he ever needed were huddled together in an Old Trafford trophy cabinet. It was interesting, then, to learn first hand that he still felt the stress of it all but maybe not surprising.

Football managers and to a lesser degree players are at their most naked, emotional and vulnerable as they stand in the interview area of stadiums with adrenaline pumping and sweat not yet dry. Success doesn't insulate you from that.

And it was this susceptibility to pressure that was doubtless written right through Jurgen Klopp's impromptu decision to walk away during a post-match interview with Danish TV after Sunday's FA Cup disaster against Manchester United.

Klopp said he didn't like a question. 'Dumb' he called it. The interviewer in question - Niels Christian Frederiksen - has subsequently claimed the Liverpool manager screamed at him as