Tag: FA Cup

Liverpool’s boss, Jurgen Klopp, has been named the Barclays Premier League Manager of the season and won the Sir Alex Ferguson trophy for the League Managers' Association, LMA, manager of the year.   This was announced on Tuesday.   The Reds won both the English League Cup and FA Cup, beating Chelsea in penalty shoot-outs at Wembley on both occasions.   With 92 points, Liverpool finished as runners-up to Premier League champions Manchester City by a single point, as they went closer to winning the Quadruple than any other English side in history.

  Klopp, collecting his accolade at the LMA Awards dinner in London on Tuesday, said: “It is a great honour and it was an insane season.   “The last matchday when only two games were meaningless and in the rest, we all played for absolutely everything. It was not the best outcome for us, but we are already over it.”   Paying tribute to his team, the German added: “When you win a prize like this you are either a genius or you have the best coaching staff in the world — and I am here with all of my coaching staff, they know how much I appreciate them.”   Klopp also collected the Sir Alex Ferguson Trophy, named in honour of the celebrated former Manchester United boss, which is voted for by the full membership of managers across all the divisions in English senior football.   “This being voted for by my colleagues is obviously the most important prize you can get. I don’t believe in individual prizes in football generally, it is a team sport and I would be nothing without these boys there. It is all about what we can do together and what we did together,” Klopp said.   Klopp's men can still clinch a cup treble if they beat Real Madrid in Paris on Saturday and add the Champions League to this season's FA Cup and League Cup successes.