And to think we used to get excited about whether Wayne Bridge would shake John Terry’s hand.
Saturday’s Manchester derby (7:30 a.m. ET, NBCSN) at Old Trafford might be the most anticipated match in English Premier League history. It's not just a derby, not just a meeting of probably the two best squads in the country, but it's Jose Mourinho against Pep Guardiola–and a little bit of Zlatan Ibrahimovic too.
This is a day when the game of football and the soap opera of football come together, a clash of two great clubs, two great managers and an awful lot of questions.