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MORE THAN A CLIPPING ABOUT KLOPP

Managerial announcements from Germany did not always get that much space in Big Paper back in the day. When Franz Beckenbauer took charge of the West German national team in 1984, for example, the subject was only broached in the sixth paragraph of a general football roundup. To be fair, the first five paragraphs were about Diego Maradona moving from Barcelona to Napoli in a reported world-record $7.5m deal, and people generally didn’t obsess about football in the middle of July back then, so we’re not exactly sure what we’re trying to say here. But whichever way you spin it, a story about one of the greatest players to ever play the game taking over one of the most successful international teams of all time was squirrelled away in the middle of page 18.

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