Everton v Liverpool | Scott Murray

• Email scott.murray@guardian.co.uk with all your thoughts • Press F5 to refresh this page or use our auto-refresher • Click here for all the stats you will ever need • You want the latest scores? Click here While we wait: Why not take a trip down memory lane with this week’s Merseyside-derby-related Joy of Six ? Referee: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire) Liverpool drop Jordan Henderson for the first time in the league this season: Reina, Kelly, Carragher, Skrtel, Jose Enrique, Kuyt, Lucas, Adam, Downing, Suarez, Carroll. Subs: Doni, Gerrard, Henderson, Coates, Spearing, Flanagan, Bellamy. Louis Saha makes his first start of the season for Everton, who relegate captain Phil Neville to the bench: Everton: Howard, Hibbert, Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Coleman, Fellaini, Rodwell, Osman, Cahill, Saha. Subs: Mucha, Bilyaletdinov, Drenthe, Stracqualursi, Neville, Barkley, Vellios. Today’s brouhaha begins at: 12.45pm. But while the glory days have gone, the Merseyside derby has continued to deliver, the most consistently entertaining stramash in English football. Goals, red cards, thundering challenges, last-minute winners, outrageous tackles, penalties, kicks, stamps, slaps, fistfights, refereeing controversies, goalkeeping calamities, simulations of decadent nights hoovering up the jazz salt: there’s usually something for everyone. Thoughts turn today to Kenny Dalglish’s last involvement in a Merseyside derby at Goodison Park. That was, of course, the famous 4-4 draw in the fifth round of the FA Cup in 1991. Less than 48 hours after the final whistle, Kenny was gone, the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster finally taking its terrible toll. His departure signalled the end of an era for Liverpool. Everton, too, were on their way down from the heights of the 1980s, during which the pair had taken turns to be the best team in the land. That seems a long time ago now, as Louise Taylor reports. Premier League 2011-12 Everton Liverpool Premier League Scott Murray guardian.co.uk

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