The dust had not long settled on Liverpool’s first game of the season, a draw away to a Chelsea side who had taken two of his top targets in the summer transfer window, when Jürgen Klopp was asked about new Premier League rules that dictate only one person can stand in the technical area.
“I think it’s only a problem for one team: Newcastle,” he replied, before laughing. It seemed a strange time – inside Stamford Bridge, after a match against a different team – to reference Eddie Howe and his No 2, Jason Tindall, but it spoke of a growing rivalry.
Howe insisted on the eve of the latest clash between the teams, at St James’ Park on Sunday, that he bears no ill
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