Maybe its because he is always breaking the rules and there is too much drama around him Jose Mourinho would have got a 25-match ban if he had celebrated in the same way Jurgen Klopp did against Everton according to Paul Merson.
Liverpool boss Klopp celebrated Divock Origi’s injury-time winner in the Merseyside derby by running onto the pitch to embrace goalkeeper Alisson. The German has come in for a lot of criticism for his over-the-top celebration, while he has been charged by the FA over the incident.
And Merson thinks Mourinho, who is no stranger to controversy, would face a heftier ban for doing exactly the same thing.
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“It’d be a 25-game ban – I dread to think,” Merson said on The Debate.
“Put it this way, if that was Jose, he’d have got sent straight to the stands as soon as he got back to his technical area. Jose got sent off at Southampton for going outside his technical area.
“It’s horses for courses – everyone loves Jurgen Klopp, apart from Manchester United fans. It’s one of them where it’s a case of ‘don’t do it again’ – no-one got hurt and Marco Silva was fine with it.”
However, fellow pundit on The Debate, Tim Sherwood had sympathy for Klopp as he knows emotions can run high.
“He’s a charismatic, good manager,” Sherwood said.
“He’s got a knack of everyone eating out of his hand, players, press, fans – they love it. Everyone loves him. He puts a positive spin on everything. He’s got a great smile and offers an honest opinion, plus, he wears his heart on his sleeve.
“I can understand his emotion. I’d be still running around now, waiting for the bell for the last lap!
“Until you’ve stood in that technical area, you can’t understand the emotion of winning a game and what it means to everyone. It’s so much more than when you are a player as you’re taking the heat and taking it on for the full football club.
“It’s massive. When people criticise Jurgen Klopp who have never stood in the technical area, I find it difficult.”