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Jurgen Klopp's private chat on Liverpool return hailed - 'You could hear a pin drop'

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I think since he's come back, I was very fortunate enough for the first 18 months to work alongside him and see what he does on a day-to-day basis.FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FC FACEBOOK PAGE! All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook page“But to have him back, the enthusiasm, the love he has for this club, the love we have for the fans.



We went up there and the lads really performed, and he's fantastic to have around.”After Thiago Alcantara fired the Reds ahead after six minutes, Spearing doubled his side’s advantage with a thunderbolt from range just before the break.The strike left a number of the 37-year-old’s team-mates shocked, and Spearing was equally as shocked, so much so that he took the matchball home with him.“I don’t score many goals and I didn’t know what to do, genuinely,” he said. 'It came at me earlier and the crowd shouted to shoot and I thought, "Nah, that’s not my game'.“Then when that fell to the edge of the box, I had a go. It’s a moment I'm going to cherish, as you can see, because I robbed the ball.”Although Mohamed Zidan and Jan Koller drew Dortmund level, it was still Gerrard and Thiago who starred, and Spearing admits he is still pinching himself at being able to play alongside such talent.“I'm in a very fortunate position that I'm just ticking off boxes at the minute,” he said.

“I am a local lad, I love the club, I'm a Liverpool fan.“To go and play a legends’ game at Anfield in front of over 60,000, alongside Stevie G, who I played with, but also with Thiago – he's an absolute master of football, isn't he?“He was in an unbelievable bit of a pinch-me moment, but I loved every single minute of it. I would have loved to have won the game, but listen, we have the draw and we move on, as people say.”The game was played in front of a 60,000-strong crowd, the highest ever legends fixture attendance, and Spearing said, "Any time you come back to Anfield, in front of the new stand, at the full house, you've got over 60,000 people; it's incredible.'Yeah, I've been keeping a lot fitter, but the lads are telling me that I've got to run the most, which makes it a bit more pressure to run around, and everyone's shouting me to go and press when I'm a bit like: 'Hold on, give me a sec to breathe.'“But it was incredible, and the job that I got is – I know how fortunate I am to have the job.