An intrigued Jose Mourinho has compared Manchester United's rivalry with Liverpool to Real Madrid against Barcelona, the Milan derby and Porto versus Benfica.
The United manager took part in all three of those famous fixtures while working in Spain, Italy and Portugal earlier in his decorated career. Mourinho is now preparing to take his new team to Anfield on Monday night, when the gaze of the football world will be fixed firmly on Merseyside.
These matches between English football’s two most successful clubs always generate white-hot atmospheres and the manager is clearly excited by the environment he is about to enter.