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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will be on his best behavior for the Reds’ game at Aston Villa on Monday, knowing a yellow card would result in him serving a ban on the sidelines for his final game in charge of the club . The German head coach will bid farewell to Anfield on the final day of the Premier League season but risks being banned from the sidelines.

May 19th will be a special day on Merseyside as Liverpool bid farewell to a legendary coach who helped them win their first ever Premier League title, their first league victory since the 1989/90 season. In addition to one FA Cup and two Carabao Cup triumphs, he also won the sixth Champions League.

But there is a chance Klopp will have already refereed his final Liverpool game from the Anfield dugout should he receive a yellow card in the penultimate game of the season at Villa Park.

Three warnings in the course of a season result in a head coach being banned from playing on the sidelines. Klopp was booked against Luton and Burnley and must avoid further clashes with referee Simon Hooper against Villa, although the 56-year-old insisted not being on the touchline would not be the end of the world.

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“I’ve known for a long time,” Klopp said of the prospect of a ban. “I only got two yellow cards! I have become calmer over the years. I don’t have to be on the sidelines, but that would be it. “Be cool. I will do everything I can to get involved in the conversations!”

However, match manager Hooper can bring out the worst in Klopp, with the manager admitting it had been difficult for the outgoing Liverpool boss to spend time alongside him as he was responsible for Luis Diaz’s disallowed phantom goal against Liverpool earlier in the season The referee was responsible for Tottenham.