Even 22 years on from the transfer's completion, the deal to take Nick Barmby from Everton to Liverpool still prompts intense and varied emotions from supporters on each side of the Merseyside divide.
The midfielder's defection across Stanley Park from Goodison Park to Anfield in 2000 inflamed passions across the city and when it comes to what they see as acts of betrayal, football fans retain memories to put elephants to shame.
Last summer, Sol Campbell, who crossed north London’s great divide to quit Tottenham Hotspur for Arsenal a year after Barmby’s switch, found himself involved in an x-rated spat in Rome with a Spurs supporter who was still irate some two decades on.
