OLIVER HOLT: Is this an apparition that we see before us? Is it real? Is Liverpool-Manchester City at Anfield a football match or a ghost-game? Will it remain in the sport's history books or will it be erased when City's guilty verdicts on 114 charges of financial chicanery meet their punishment sometime in the months ahead? There was a time when any Premier League clash between these two sides would have been regarded as the best advertisement for the English game that there could be. Not anymore. This game is being played at a wonderful stadium but it might as well be in a circus tent. It is not a match. It is a giant and terrible curiosity. The great managers who helped to define this collision between modern giants - Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola - are both gone and now this clash stands for something else: it marks the start of a period of slow torture for the top flight in this country‚ a period when we cannot know whether there is any permanence attached to results that involve City. A period when we will not know whether we should believe what we see.

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Gary Neville's upgrade to his Overlap podcast empire appears to be off to a rocky start after pundit Jamie Carragher and YouTuber Mark Goldbridge exchanged jibes moments into the debut of their new show. Carragher and Goldbridge went head-to-head at the start of a launch show for the Overlap Daily‚ the expansion of Neville's podcast network. Liverpool legend Carragher was quick to scrutinise Goldbridge‚ who has risen to fame in recent years with his outspoken views on Manchester United on his YouTube channels.

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INTERVIEW BY LEWIS STEELE: Luis Garcia knows all about miracles‚ given he was part of Liverpool's Champions League-winning team in 2005 that were 3-0 down at half-time of the Istanbul final. So the ongoing miracle of Malaysia‚ as we shall call it‚ is no surprise to the former Reds and Barcelona winger‚ who is now chief executive of a record-breaking team trying to be the biggest in south-east Asia. Johor Darul Ta'zim‚ or JDT‚ are on a world-record run of 113 domestic matches - and counting - unbeaten‚ with Garcia at the helm alongside the local crown prince and former Watford manager Xisco Munoz.

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