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Manchester United. (2023–present) The Liverpool F.C.–Manchester United F.C. rivalry, sometimes referred to as the Northwest Derby, is a high-profile inter-city rivalry between English professional football clubs Liverpool and Manchester United. It is considered one of the biggest fixtures in English football and one of the biggest and ...
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For 50 years they’ve been united in their quest for success and divided by the desire to be the more dominant... Greg Whelan looks at the history of the rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester United.
Liverpool and Manchester are just 30 miles apart… but they've rarely been good neighbours.
The construction of the Manchester Ship Canal in the 19th Century - to bypass Liverpool's financial control over imports and exports - fuelled the friction between them.
But it's through football that their rivalry found fresh expression.
In the 1960's, Liverpool came to the fore in the fields of music and fashion and its football club would follow suit. The rapid rise of Bill Shankly's side challenged the elite and they overcame United in the 1964 title race.
But after the tragedy of the Munich Air Crash in 1958, United rebuilt a team with the talent to retaliate and their European Cup triumph in 1968 re-established their supremacy.
By the 1970's, Shankly's dream of a dominant Liverpool would be fulfilled, as his successor Bob Paisley oversaw an era of unparalleled success for an English club both domestically and in Europe.
Mar 17, 2024 · Liverpool and Manchester United boast one of British football's fiercest rivalries. Here's how the all-time head-to-head stats stack up.
A significant rivalry dating back to the 1960s, the two have met in two FA Cup finals that both ended in shock wins. A ten-man Manchester United stopping newly crowned League and European Cup Winners' Cup champions Everton 1–0 in 1985.
Mar 5, 2023 · The latest chapter in Liverpool's historic rivalry against Manchester United saw them record an incredible 7-0 win over Erik ten Hag's side on March 5, 2023. That proved to be Liverpool’s...
Jan 15, 2021 · Despite this, Liverpool versus Manchester United is widely thought to be one of the biggest and most famous rivalries in football history. Read on here to find out why.
Jan 16, 2021 · They have contested just two FA Cup finals (both won by United) and two League Cup finals (both won by Liverpool). There was a Liverpool-United-Liverpool-United title-winning sequence from...
