Team manager Jürgen Klopp from the top English football club Liverpool FC criticized their own fans for homophobic chants and prompted them to rethink.
"When they start singing 'You' ll Never Walk Alone ', it gives you goose bumps and a boost. The other songs are a complete waste of time, and if you believe in what you are singing, then you are an idiot", said Klopp.
In the Premier League opening game last Saturday, supporters of the Reds had insulted professional Billy Gilmour hosted by Norwich City as a "hustler".
The club condemned the behavior, Klopp met on Thursday with Paul Amann, founder of the Liverpool LGBT fan group "Kop Outs".
"I'll never understand why you sing a song against something in a football stadium," the coach was quoted as saying on the club's Twitter account.
And further: “I never understood that.
I never liked it. "
"Have the best songbook in the world"
Especially at Liverpool such excesses are completely unnecessary.
"We probably have the best songbook in the world," said Klopp.
It is therefore easy to stop singing the offending song.
“We can now decide: This is no longer our song.
I'm not sure if people will listen to me, but it would be nice. "
Klopp remembered mistakes from old times.
“I'm 54 now and when I was 20 we said so many things that we didn't even think about,” said the former professional. “And now, 34 years later, thank God we have learned that it just doesn't is right to say something like that. "
From the point of view of defender Joel Matip, team manager Klopp is still passionately on the sidelines of the Premier League club.
“He's still motivated to the tip of his hair.
He doesn't want to achieve what he has achieved before.
He always wants to get better, "said the former Bundesliga professional in an interview with Sky.
For Matip, Liverpool are among the title candidates this season after Manchester City dethroned the club again last season: "We have a great squad and if we stay fit and achieve our best performance potential, we are ready for the title."