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Liverpool boss Klopp: Why I refuse to tap the 'This is Anfield' sign

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admits he consciously avoids one of the club's lon traditions.

Klopp has revealed he doesn't follow one of Anfield's most famous traditions - touching the 'This is Anfield' sign - due to his superstitions.

"This is one of the most important things here," Klopp told Copa90 during a stadium tour with MLB star Francisco Lindor. "You can touch it."

When asked by his tourists why he wasn't touching it he said: "No, not now."

Klopp went on to admitted he touched the sign before a 2014 friendly at Anfield like many opposing managers and players do.

"I touched it while I was at Dortmund," Klopp explained. "I played here in a friendly and we lost 5-0 (sic).

"I really think that I will start touching it in the moment when we have won something.

"It is a really big thing and this is a really big club the history is like a mountain."

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