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MARTIN KEOWN on the Merseyside derby: While Liverpool will be overwhelming favourites, Sean Dyche's Everton side will know the occasion can be a real leveller

Saturday is the 63rd Merseyside derby of the Premier League era and I still remember playing in the very first edition, Everton triumphing 2-1 over Liverpool amid an eruption of ecstasy at Goodison Park in December 1992.

Walking out with those iconic Liverpool teams of the eighties and nineties. Lining up against illustrious names like Dalglish, Rush and Barnes. You knew the watching world had you down as automatic underdogs.

Regardless of what you had achieved yourself, you were forever cast as second favourites when playing Liverpool, particularly away at Anfield.