It's a straight balancing of pros and cons from my point of view. The frantic, pro-scouse circle jerk would be so intolerable that it would in no way be compensated for by another dreary and unsuccessful run in the CL (which, let's face it, is all we'd manage) of the sort that I haven't missed one little bit over the past two seasons.
I'm simply being realistic and pragmatic.
I did. Well over a decade ago.
The BBC, Sky and every single newspaper will be screaming about Klopp's heroes ending 30 years of hurt. Scousers you'd forgotten existed would be crawling out of the woodwork to slime all over our TV screens while talking about 'The Boot Room' and Bob ****ing Paisley. Ian Rush will probably appear again. And Sammy Lee.
And the accents. The fúcking accents.
Honestly, if only there were a fence big enough to push the entire population of Liverpool into...