The biggest and most passionate fixture in the calendar of English football is on March 14, between the two undisputed heavy-weights, Manchester United and Liverpool. United, the most successful English football team in recent years, will take on Liverpool, the most successful team in Britain of all times.

It is a battle that will ultimately decide the push for the title. If United win, or draw, the title is home and try. If Liverpool win, there is a slight hope - just enough to make Ferguson's men nervous on the final stretch on their march on all five fronts until May. There is history, hatred, traditions, passion, every ingredient for one titanic clash between those two powerhouses of English football to make a true classic.

Love them of hate them, they need each other. Liverpool needs United so they can aspire for greater  things in life, and vise versa, thus propelling English football forward in the process.

Ahead of the bone crunching fixture, the two strikers, Wayne Rooney and Dirk Kuyt have given their angle on the match. A match of meteoric significance for the Spion Kop and the Stretford End. Rooney insists that victory for Manchester United on Saturday will end Liverpool's hopes of claiming the Premier League title this season, and rightfully so, as United are currently seven points ahead of Liverpool with a game in hand.

"We’re in pole position and know if we can beat Liverpool then that’ll more or less end their chances of winning the league," the striker told the club's website. "I’m very excited about the game because I grew up as an Everton fan hating Liverpool, that hasn’t changed!"

Dirk Kuyt, meanwhile, revealed how Liverpool are determined to follow the destruction of Real Madrid mid-week with a vital away league victory over arch-rivals United at Old Trafford. Dutchman Kuyt insisted the Anfielders can send out a statement of intent by reducing that lead with a first away victory over Alex Ferguson's men in five years.
 
"We can't think about anything else but beating Manchester United on Saturday," said Kuyt. "United are a very good team, but we have shown this season that we can beat the big opponents when they come along. We won away to Chelsea and Real Madrid, we beat United and Madrid at Anfield so I think we can do something on Saturday."