Ending title drought deepens Klopp’s affinity with Liverpool

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp says he hopes that ending the club’s 30-year English title drought lifts the spirits of the city emerging from the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. Klopp says “at this moment in time in the world, all cities need a lift.” Fans also see Klopp as chiming with the left-leaning social conscience of a port city which produced The Beatles and has often felt cut adrift politically and economically from the power and wealth