Referee Robert Madley has to separate Everton’s Mason Holgate and Liverpool’s Roberto during a FA Cup clash in 2018. Photo: Reuters Referee Robert Madley has to separate Everton’s Mason Holgate and Liverpool’s Roberto during a FA Cup clash in 2018. Photo: Reuters
Referee Robert Madley has to separate Everton’s Mason Holgate and Liverpool’s Roberto during a FA Cup clash in 2018. Photo: Reuters
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‘We’d be trying to kill each other’ – What Everton’s Carlo Ancelotti needs to know ahead of first Merseyside derby

  • Everton’s Carlo Ancelotti and Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp square off in FA Cup fourth round on Sunday
  • ‘Unbearable’, ‘horrible’ and ‘brutal’, says legend Mark Lawrenson of Merseyside derbies

Tony Evans
Tony Evans

Updated: 9:51pm, 4 Jan, 2020

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Referee Robert Madley has to separate Everton’s Mason Holgate and Liverpool’s Roberto during a FA Cup clash in 2018. Photo: Reuters Referee Robert Madley has to separate Everton’s Mason Holgate and Liverpool’s Roberto during a FA Cup clash in 2018. Photo: Reuters
Referee Robert Madley has to separate Everton’s Mason Holgate and Liverpool’s Roberto during a FA Cup clash in 2018. Photo: Reuters
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Tony Evans

Tony Evans

Tony Evans is a journalist and author. He began writing professionally in his late 20s. Before that he worked a variety of jobs to finance his efforts to follow Liverpool around Britain and Europe. He was Football Editor of The Times for eight years and is now a broadcaster and columnist