“There’s big games and big rivalries that we have with other teams,” Manchester United manager Michael Carrick mused before his first managerial meeting with Liverpool, “but certainly this one is right up there in the history.”
Any meeting between the two most successful clubs in the English game is appointment viewing. Intriguingly, the pair have rarely dominated at the same point in history; Liverpool and Manchester United have only shared the top two spots of the top flight in five of their 132 years competing against one another. Yet, this is a game which brings its own sense of heft and importance.
