Two ancient foes collide again. Mighty founder members of the Football League, with their proud histories and underwhelming recent pasts, and an interwoven narrative making theirs the most-contested of all top-flight fixtures.
On Sunday in Liverpool, they engage for the 212th time in the competition, the 231st time in all, and records are so astonishingly tight there are but four wins and three goals separating them across 135 years.
They have 34 major trophies between them — at least one in each decade from the birth of organised football to the dawn of this millennium, minus the 1940s when war intervened.