Manchester City V Manchester United: Premier League – Live

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Before nan game location will beryllium a tribute to boxing fable and City instrumentality Ricky Hatton, who has died astatine nan property of conscionable 46.

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It’s 3 February 1990. No really, folks, it is! FW de Klerk has conscionable announced plans to merchandise Nelson Mandela from prison; Mike Tyson is simply a week distant from pummelling Buster Douglas; Tears connected my Pillow, Kylie Minogue’s epic meditation connected love, nonaccomplishment and secretion from nan lachrymal glands, is being kept disconnected apical spot by immoderate Prince knock-off.

And nan Manchester derby is taking spot astatine Old Trafford. Seventh-place United and 14th-place City tie 1-1 successful a lively contest, pinch Clayton Blackmore’s fantabulous extremity cancelled retired by a screamer from Ian Brightwell.

That was nan past clip nan Manchester derby took spot pinch some teams successful nan bottommost half of nan table*. Today’s crippled is 16th v 11th and, though location are immoderate elemental reasons for that – it’s early successful nan season, they’ve played a crippled less than astir of nan teams supra them – it’s besides a reflection of nan reduced position of some clubs.

City person mislaid 2 of nan first 3 games and nan connection connected nan thoroughfare is that Pep Guardiola is yesterday’s visionary; United are United. To judge a squad aft a fistful of games is absurd, reductive, infantile, pathetic; it’s besides nan norm.

Woe betide whoever loses today.

Kick disconnected 4.30pm.