Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp confused 'brain fog' with X-rated word

Jurgen Klopp speaks impeccable English.

From the moment that the German opened his mouth during his first ever Liverpool press conference, it couldn’t have been clearer that he had a brilliant command of the English language.

Joking with reporters from the off and branding himself as the ‘Normal One’, Klopp was bang on the money with his English ahead of what proved to be his first coaching job outside of Germany.

In fact, it’s sometimes taken for granted that managers like Klopp, Pep Guardiola, Ralf Rangnick and so on have such a vast vocabulary in English from the moment that they step off the plane.

Granted, it might be one of the most widely-spoken languages on the entire planet, but that still doesn’t make it any easier for people who have grown up speaking a different mother tongue to pick it up.

After all, the English language can be such a minefield of contradictions and nonsensical rules that even the most adept of non-native speakers can trip up from time to time.

From silent letters to baffling pronunciations and silly idioms to colloquial slang, it’s a wonder that the likes of Antonio Conte and Thomas Tuchel aren’t tripping over their tongues every ten seconds.

But the odd, innocent error does creep in every now and again with Klopp producing a particularly amusing example while speaking with reporters around a Liverpool press conference this week.

That’s because footage has emerged of Klopp hearing someone in the room say what he thought was ‘brainf***’ when it was in fact the much less X-rated ‘brain fog’.

In a clip corroborated by AS and Sky Sports Germany, Klopp responded to what he thought had been the F-bomb by quipping: “Why can everybody say that word and if I say it, it’s not okay?”

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