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Last modified on Sat 23 Jan 2021 07.11 EST 1977: Manchester United 2-1 Liverpool Liverpool had beaten United at Anfield 18 days earlier, en route to the title. But it wasn’t much of an omen, not least because Tommy Docherty’s side had nothing to play for and were keeping their powder dry. At Wembley, he set his team snapping at Liverpool’s heels, ditching their trademark pretty wing play for something uncharacteristically agricultural: long launches that would hopefully discombobulate the normally ice-cool champions. It worked like a dream. Though Jimmy Case was the best player on the p...

Pet owners in mainland Britain will now have to get an animal health certificate no more than 10 days before travel to the EU and Northern Ireland. — AFP Britain will be in a new category – known as Part 2 listed status – under European Union pet travel rules, and no longer able to utilise passports which had permitted seamless continental feline and canine journeys. Among the changes, pet owners in mainland Britain will now have to get an animal health certificate (AHC) no more than 10 days before travel to the EU and Northern Ireland. Although the new regime is less onerous than if Br...

George Best, pictured in 1968. Source: PA Liverpool and United’s rivalry has been a kind of eddying game of thrones; while they have dominated the last half-century of English football, their peaks have rarely coincided. In fact, the only time when either succeeded the other as league champions was in a four-year streak between 1963 and 1967, when each won two titles.  Liverpool were defending champions when they went to Old Trafford at the end of the 64/65 season, but their title defence had faltered badly and they were torn asunder by United. Denis Law scored twice with John Conn...

PAUL ELLIS/Getty Images It says everything you need to know about the ferocity of the rivalry between Manchester United and Liverpool that even though the two sides have very rarely been on an even keel, it has never lost its edge. There is usually a clear favourite - whether it's Shankly's Liverpool or Ferguson's United - but whenever the two sides meet, there is a level of bitterness in the air that usually supersedes the surrounding circumstances. When Liverpool face Manchester United, the derby takes precedence to everything else, and here are six historic clashes which best summarise En...

Click the thumbs up > Car auctions have indicated that it will remain business as usual for stock-sourcing dealers during the latest COVID-19 lockdown across the UK. Members of the National Association of Motor Auctions (NAMA) told the trade body that lockdowns announced for England and Scotland on Monday (January 4) would not restrict their ability to trade online despite the closure of non-essential retail. Auctions were part of a lockdown exemption list detailed in Government lockdown legislation posted on the gov.uk website following Boris Johnson’s national address. Head of NAMA, Louis...