Name: The biggest game in English football? Liverpool vs Manchester United | US AND THEM
Uploaded: 2020-03-08T20:21:41.000Z
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It's like a pirate ship full of scurvy dogs, vagabonds and ne'er-do-wells,

and a couple of half-decent football teams every now and again!

Liverpool the city, if I had to describe it I think I'd just use one word.

To us, the centre of the known universe, innit?

You can't be coming from Liverpool if you're not involved in one of them.

It had The Beatles, didn't it? And after that it struggled.

Tony Wilson used to say, "We do things differently here".

You can't bull**** when you're in Manchester, you've got to be yourself.

Two of the world's greatest cities, 30 miles apart,

so much in common but so much that divides them.

Our little corner of England has probably contributed more to sport,

to industry than any other corner of the world.

But we don't recognise that in each other.

Ron Atkinson said once, if you go to Anfield it's like going to Vietnam.

You just turn into an animal when you're in the ground,

you just lose your head, it's embarrassing.

If someone filmed you, you'd be going, "That's not me, is it?"

But where did this rivalry start, how has it changed through the years

300 years ago Liverpool built the first enclosed commercial wet dock in the world.

That's where it all began, I think, for Liverpool, that's where it all went boom.

It speeded up the loading and offloading of the cargos

There was that many ships lined up on the Pier Head

people couldn't even see the Mersey beyond it,

and there was people there from the Americas, from Asia,

he likened Liverpool's dock system to the Great Lakes in North America.

At the same time, fuelled by the Industrial Revolution,

We invented the whole UK textile industry.

And it became known the world over as 'Cottonopolis'.

Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto for Manchester.

A really radical city; the TUC were founded here, Suffragettes, Peterloo Massacre -

The two cities were even linked by the world's first steam-powered railway.

But in the late 1800s, Manchester began to suffer an economic decline

and things were soon being pointed at the neighbours on the Mersey.

The raw materials that were coming into Manchester had to come into Liverpool,

the biggest port in the country at the time, bigger than London.

ANDY MITTEN: That was what led to the Manchester Ship Canal being built.

They wanted to bypass Liverpool, the greed of the Liverpool merchants,

building all your grand houses in the centre of Liverpool,

Mancunians are very proud of the Ship Canal

and very quick to say that it effectively brought the sea to Manchester.

And that's probably the start of the whole rivalry.

Football was becoming a regular pastime within northern working-class communities.

And one of the many new teams springing up was a certain Newton Heath.

Newton Heath started up in 1878, playing in amongst the cotton mills

and cramped factories of inner-city east Manchester.

For a short time they wore those famous green and gold shirts

14 years later Liverpool FC were formed, in 1892, wearing blue and white.

While Liverpool were on the up, Newton Heath were on the slide.

In 1894, the year the Ship Canal was opened,

Newton Heath were rock-bottom of the First Division.

To save their skin, they entered into a playoff against the Second Division champions.

Liverpool were the champions of the old second tier,

That was the first really when we put one over on United,

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