Football on this day: Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville go head-to-head 10 years ago
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mirror.co.ukIt had been a year and a week since Liverpool swatted aside Manchester United 4-1 at Old Trafford. Until their more recent divergence in opposite directions it was probably about as close as the Reds had got to their Manchester rivals in the Premier League era, as a genuinely star-studded team threatened to overthrow Sir Alex Ferguson's battle-hardened champions.
Pepe Reina, Jamie Carragher, Javier Mascherano, Xabi Alonso, Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres could have walked into any team of the time, and there was a sense that United weren't hitting the heights they had in their terrific 2007/08 campaign.
Yet they still won the league and Liverpool came second. And that was the issue for the Reds around that time really. Even when they
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