Liverpool fan blames red seat coverings for side's woeful home form

Liverpool fan bizarrely blames the red seat coverings at Anfield for Jurgen Klopp’s side’s woeful recent home form, insisting the colour clash with their kit is ‘taking them longer to visualise players’

  • Liverpool have lost five home league games in a row for the first time ever
  • The defeat to Chelsea leaves them four points adrift of Thomas Tuchel’s men
  • One Reds supporter feels the seat coverings at Anfield are the problem 
  • Jurgen Klopp’s men will be hoping to stop the rot at home against Fulham

A Liverpool fan has bizarrely blamed the red seat coverings for the side’s alarmingly poor home form – claiming the backdrop ‘takes the team longer to visualise players’.

Jurgen Klopp’s Reds have lost their last five home league games after being defeated 1-0 by Chelsea on Thursday, and will be under pressure to stop the rot when they welcome Fulham to Anfield on Sunday.

It is the first time they have lost five in a row at home in their history and also makes them the first English top-flight champions to go on such a run. 

Liverpool have now lost five home league games in a row for the first time after Chelsea’s win

One Liverpool fan has oddly claimed that the seat coverings at Anfield are to blame for the run

Speaking to talkSPORT, one supporter named Frank came up with a rather peculiar theory for his team’s nosedive – insisting that the players’ surroundings inside the stadium was playing a part.

‘My belief is it’s not just at Anfield, it’s all clubs that play in red like Liverpool, Man United and Arsenal,’ he said.

‘We have red backdrops and we play in red kits.

‘I believe it is the colour clash when clubs are passing the ball, it takes them longer to visualise their players.’

Jurgen Klopp’s men will hope to stop the rot at home when they welcome Fulham on Sunday

It’s safe to say his take was not well received by presenters Andy Goldstein and Perry Groves. The hosts made the point that Man United were going strong in second despite having the same red backdrop, while Merseyside rivals Everton have blue seat coverings and aren’t similarly struggling at the moment. 

Frank continued: ‘If you’re making a painting and you put a red colour on top of a red, it actually looks worse than blue on blue.

‘I can guarantee if Liverpool changed their backdrop to their away kit, they would perform a lot better.

‘Even if it only made a 10 per cent difference, in the scheme of things 10 per cent is a lot.’ 

Sir Alex Ferguson blamed United’s 3-1 loss to Southampton in 1996 on their grey away kit 

He incredibly forced his players to swap into a blue kit, but they still went on to lose the game 

The fan’s strange excuse will conjour up memories of Sir Alex Ferguson ordering his Manchester United players to swap their kit colours at half time during their 1996 clash at Southampton. 

The team were 3-0 down at the break and the Scot insisting the players could not see each other well enough in their grey strip.

The Red Devils emerged in a blue and white kit after the interval, but still went on to lose the game 3-1.   




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