Jurgen Klopp has revealed he cried seeing NHS staff singing You’ll Never Walk Alone.
Many frontline workers have performed renditions of Liverpool’s anthem at work while they continue to treat patients of the global coronavirus pandemic.
The Reds have been on hiatus since the Premier League suspended all matches on March 13 in line with their counterparts in other leagues.
Klopp admitted on Friday that he was incredibly moved by the viral footage from hospital wards and paid tribute to the essential work being undertaken.
He said: “It’s extraordinary.
“I think yesterday I was sent a video of people in the hospital just outside the intensive care area and when they started singing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ I started crying immediately.
“It’s unbelievable. But it shows everything, these people not only work but they have such a good spirit.
“They are used to helping other people; we need to get used to it because usually we have our own problems and stuff. But it’s their job, they do it day in and day out.
“They bring themselves, if you want, in danger because they help ill, sick and seriously handicapped people, so I couldn’t admire them more and appreciate it more.”
The Liverpool manager also outlined his hope that the new-found sense of community in the face of Covid-19 can become a long-lasting one.
“There are so many people out there that have much bigger problems so it would feel really embarrassing to myself if I was to talk about my ‘problems’,” added Klopp.
“I have the problems every person in the world has in the moment. That’s the lesson we learn in this moment.
“Four or five weeks ago it looks like a lot of countries thought: ‘That’s our problem, that’s our problem, that’s our problem, we have a problem with them’ and stuff like this.
“Now nature shows us we are all the same and we have all the same problems in the same moment, and we have to work together on the solution.
“There is nothing good in that situation apart from maybe what we can learn from that.”