NO team has a God-given right to success. It is a particularly relevant maxim to mull over as two of English football's heavyweights meet at Old Trafford this evening.
For foes who have grown to detest each other, very rarely in the modern era have they been direct rivals. Instead, the Manchester-Liverpool rivalry was born out of the industrial revolution when both cities vied for economic supremacy; the period of time when the respective football clubs matched each other stride for stride can be narrowed down to a corridor in the 1960s when they took it in turns to win league titles between 1964 and 1967.
