Jurgen Klopp is the current manager of the English Premier League’s Liverpool soccer team. He is German by birth and known for his smart, aggressive “heavy metal” style of coaching. But if you see him, with his signature baseball cap, round glasses, and intelligent smile, you just know that his logistical brain can sort through any challenge in a heartbeat.
At least, that’s what comedian Laura Lexx thinks. A stand-up comedian, she basically lost her job as soon as England went into lockdown, so she let her mind and her Twitter account contemplate the idea of what it might be like to be married to a man like Jurgen Klopp. Her tweets about what their life together would look like caught on, and it wasn’t long before people were asking for more. So she wrote a book.
Klopp, Actually is the story of that marriage. The love of a woman (kind of a hot mess) and a man (highly organized and sensible) and their darling 2-year-old daughter Klipp. When she worries that she won’t be able to find a good job after taking time off to be with Klipp, he steps in and explains how her desire to be a good manger as well as a mother shows how dedicated she would be to her job. When she thinks about doing some work on their kitchen herself, he points out that their time is important, and it would be more efficient to spend the money to hire professionals so they are free to spend their time doing something else.
When she stripped the bed in the morning and by night was too tired to put on the new sheets and duvet cover, she goes to the bedroom to find that he’d taken care of it all, asking why she would leave such a task to the end of the day. And when she’s reluctant to go to the big gala, feeling insecure about having to talk to many strangers, he realizes that they have been approaching the problem all wrong and comes up with a way for him to play defense for her, making sure she’s never left in a group of people where she would be uncomfortable.
Who wouldn’t want to marry a man like this Jurgen Klopp?
Klopp Actually is a fun romp into an imaginary world where marriage to the world’s most sensible man is sexy and charming and a great escape. Laura Lexx’s vision of Klopp love is a genuine good time.
That said, I did have one problem with this book: I wanted more. How did they meet? How did Jurgen propose to her? What was their sensible wedding like? This is a quick read, only about 100 pages, and it was enough to whet my appetite for this type of Jurgen Klopp fan fiction but not enough to satisfy it. Here’s hoping for a second volume!
