Leeds v Liverpool: Premier League – live

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Which is how the kids round our way are framing it. Here’s a snapshot of that day, as seen through the eyes of the cheeky chap from the ‘Pool, everybody’s pal, the jolly gap-toothed scouser with a twinkle in his eye and a smile for every honest Englishman.Liverpool went into that final as favourites, prevailing 2-1 after extra time.

Leeds are coming off the back of a spirit-enhancing 3-1 win over bitter rivals Chelsea, while Liverpool were stultifyingly awful in scraping a draw against Sunderland. And while it’s true that Leeds had lost their previous four matches, and six of the previous seven, Liverpool have tasted defeat in nine of their last 14 games, so good luck confidently picking a winner from that pile of rubble.

But then neither would anybody be particularly shocked if Leeds build on their morale-boosing midweek win by staging another rafter-bothering Elland Road energy piece, and become the latest in a long line of teams to thoroughly embarrass Liverpool. So it’s poised deliciously for the neutral … and also promises to be quite the ride, one way or another, for the partial as well.