Like a good wife waiting for her husband in prison....

[dementedma]

Is anyone else uncomfortable with this analogy used by the Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp today. he was speaking about a player who was injured at the weekend and how they will just have to wait until he is fit again - most of the season.
He said “ we have to be like a good wife waiting for her husband in prison”

Even allowing that English is his second language, he is very fluent, and I was uncomfortable with the analogy.

I don't see the problem. Although I'd think the wife was a mug for waiting so not a phrase I'd use.

That's a HORRID phrase! Is it a translation of a German phrase?
It'd still be awful though. But if judge him a bit less, probably.

I wondered if it was a direct translation from a German phrase which just didn’t translate well.

Real women will be such a disappointment to him.

It’s no surprise that sexist statements like that are made by someone involved in football.
See the Manchester City player Aguero (Argentinian) had no action taken against him for grabbing a female ref around her throat during a game recently. Players can be sanctioned for physical contact with the ref, but probably as she’s only a woman, this didn’t count.

Ach, it's Jurgen Klopp. He gets a pass from me because I'm a LFC supporter, and English is his second language.

Yes but he's Jurgen Klopp, everything else he says is perfect.

AdaColeman, what a load of sexist shit you spout.

Did you actually watch the incident? The game was actually at the weekend, it was an assistant referee (lines person), not a referee and Aguero didn't grab her around the throat.

He did put his hand on her back/shoulder which was still totally wrong but at least get the facts right.

He wouldn't get sanctioned because she's a woman and it probably doesn't count?? Fucking hell!, what a load of bollocks!!

I read it and thoight it was funny. Klopp is hysterical to watch and listen to!

Bullshit that Aguero grabbed anyone's neck.

I think he was s

Ooh that wee blue hair comedian will have to cancel herself for those tweets about the wonderfulness of Klopp now that he's a proven micro aggressor. She turned it into a book and everything.

Not sure what happened there, but I think it's a reference to Fidelio which has gone right over everyone's heads.

Ooh, could easily be a reference to Fidelio.

Now, is it possible that I could love Klopp more, now that I know he likes opera?

It was translated perfectly and think it’s pretty funny. It’s a case of someone not of English nationality forgetting how sensitive this country is. Only in the U.K. would people be looking to get offended by this

Aguero did not grab anyone by the throat??

Klopp is brilliant, I can't see the offense in what he said. Give over.

He grabbed her on the back of her neck, without permission, and she clearly motioned him away.

Looking at how he touched her, I wouldn't be happy at all and it is designed to put a young woman I her place. I don't think he would have touched a male official in the same way.

This subtle stuff is important. It's not him strangling her but it is force and it is unwanted touching, which is against the rules AND assault.

His hand didn't go anywhere near her throat. I watch mostly lower league football and admittedly things are a bit different but I've seen lots of players touch linesmen in exactly that way, there was nothing aggressive about it.

grab

That looks aggressive

I just can’t get mad about things like this. Who cares?

@Scweltish

It was translated perfectly and think it’s pretty funny. It’s a case of someone not of English nationality forgetting how sensitive this country is. Only in the U.K. would people be looking to get offended by this

Or, you know, anyone of either sex with two working brain cells wondering about defining ‘goodness’ in a wife as constituting fidelity to an imprisoned criminal, and thinking that’s an appropriate metaphor for a team awaiting the return of an injured player?

Does he keep his brains in his fluorescent teeth?