Football fans on Merseyside have been in the doldrums for much of the 2022-23 campaign with both the Blues and Reds alike enduring difficult seasons.
Everton have managed just four wins in the Premier League all season against a backdrop of protests against Farhad Moshiri, Bill Kenwright and the club's board.
Liverpool, meanwhile, have gone from quadruple chasers to mid-table also rans in the space of a less than a year which has focused the attention on Jurgen Klopp and the lack of recruitment.