A look ahead to the biggest fixture in English football.
Manchester United welcome Liverpool to Old Trafford on Sunday for a fixture that remains the biggest game in English football. This is partly due to the pair being the most successful clubs in the history of the English game with 20 and 19 league titles respectively to their name. Liverpool lead the way in continental competition with six European Cups to Manchester United’s three, but that haul is still enough to make United the second most successful English club in Europe’s premier competition, now known as the Champions League. But the rivalry is also one of locality and competition between the two cities. They are just over 30 miles apart but connected by transport systems and business links that can give this the feel of a local derby. Both have ambitions to challenge for the Premier League title this season, with early season form suggesting Liverpool’s will be the most serious and realistic of the two challenges to Manchester City and Chelsea.
