In the dressing room Klopp opened the first of a number of promotion beers. He still could not quite believe what had happened, but he could explain it in that ironic, intelligent way that would later captivate Germany as a TV pundit, Dortmund as a champion coach and Liverpool as a European giant. “To do this kind of thing for three years and then pull it off like this — what a script,” he told SWR, before joking about adopting Karlsruhe scorer Conor Casey.