The whole encounter is a kind of pantomime, a verbal arm-wrestle in which the protagonists have largely conflicting goals
Tue 7 Feb 2023 08.00 GMTürgen Klopp takes a seat in the press conference room at Molineux and answers questions about Liverpool’s. He looks a little haggard these days, like a homeless wizard: the face worn and weathered, a thick Arctic forest of a beard hanging from him. Deep breaths. Voice cracked and familiar. Baseball cap drawn low over sad eyes.
Yet for all its inefficiency there remains a strange ritualistic power to the press conference, into which all its participants willingly buy. There are coaches for whom the press conference dais may as well be their pulpit: a piece of performance theatre as intrinsic to their brand as anything they do on a training pitch. There are journalists whose entire job revolves around press conferences: driving to them, waiting around for them to start, driving home from them.
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