Why the Manchester Derby is English Football History

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🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Few rivalries are as bitter as the ones that exist between two teams in one city. Ask New York Mets fans and New York Yankees fans, where the hatred can divide households. Or Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox fans whose team alliances mix with the pride in their neighborhoods. While out west, Los Angeles Lakers fans play the big brother, to their neglected stepsiblings, Los Angeles Clippers fans. Well across the pond on Sunday, in the United Kingdom, Manchester will be the site of one of those rivalries as Manchester United and Manchester City will meet in the Manchester Derby for the 195th time. Today Luis Miguel Echegaray, himself a former resident of the U.K., describes how these two clubs have defined the city for decades, and explores the modern challenges each of them are facing on and off the pitch, before explaining to Michele Steele how Liverpool is perched atop the Premier League standings, happy with whatever outcome emerges. You can honor Jim Valvano and support ESPN’s V Week with a donation to the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Michelle Steele here sitting in the host chair today.
0:06.0	And before we start the show, one note I want to share is that across all of ESPN right now,
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0:22.5	the foundation that he announced in his iconic SB speech so many years ago.
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1:01.3	Thank you.
1:02.4	Now on with the show.
1:09.6	I was going to break out into Wonderwall, but then I was like, can I not, I don't know if I'll be able to sing this song for less than 10 seconds.
1:16.6	I think you just have to go.
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