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JEFF POWELL: Liverpool's intense encounter with Manchester City was a glorious throwback to the blood and thunder clashes of the good old days... it's just a shame that VAR had to spoil it

At last, a latter-day Premier League match reminiscent of the way so many of us still believe the game should be played.

Liverpool v Manchester City was described by Gary Neville as ‘a throwback’ in its intensity, pace and most notably physical challenge.

It certainly looked as if had been plucked from the sepia annals of the good old days when men were men and divers were ridiculed by even their own team-mates as they rolled around in simulated agony.

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland tangles with Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk

No quarter asked. None given.