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'We were a band of brothers... I miss it': Phil Thompson speaks out on his Soccer Saturday sacking, Liverpool's FA Cup showdown with Manchester United - and having a 100% win record over Sir Alex Ferguson!

Even now, after all these years, Phil Thompson can't quite believe that he was able, on multiple occasions, to remind George Best of how he got the better of him with his first touch of the football as a professional player for Liverpool.

It was Old Trafford, April 1972, and an 18-year-old Thompson only got ten minutes from Bill Shankly's bench - enough time, as he remembers it, to show Best that he has quite a head on his shoulders.

'He was moving towards me with the ball and I offered him to nutmeg me on the halfway line,' Thompson relates.