It is a tribute to the indelible grandeur of Manchester United that even a season of constipated football and toxic managerial asides can still seem epic-scale and entirely engrossing. Victory could effectively kill Manchester United’s league season and perhaps even add a decisive blow in Mourinho’s own extended retreat from Old Trafford. Play Video 0:50 Liverpool 'have to be angry' against Manchester United, says Klopp – videoThis is a meeting of two teams without a league title between them in the past five years. But it still feels a more emotionally significant rivalry than Liverpool and Manchester City, whatever the relative strengths of those two teams. Goals from Mark Hughes and Brian McClair gave United victory and a run to the title from there.

Source: The Guardian December 15, 2018 08:30 UTC