Giants of the game. Detested opponents. Man knocked Liverpool off their perch. 20 league titles! 1-0 Man Utd. Old Theatre of Dreams, record attendance 76,962. 61,905. Being redeveloped any time soon? 2-0 Man Utd. fashion Cantona's collar, Robbo's blow-wave, Big Norm's skinhead. McDermott, Souness, and Craig permicide! 3-0 Man Utd. You get the picture. But there are two sides to every story. 41 major trophies. Man 39. No contest. 1-0 Liverpool. Kings of Europe, champions five times. three. And who can forget those two hilarious finals against Barcelona! 1-0 Liverpool. Suarez abuses 8 match ban. Rio misses drugs 8 month ban. 3-0 Liverpool. You decide.
Tim has been writing professionally since 1985, when he became a wide-eyed journalist on a music magazine. He went on to work for various consumer magazines, including More, Auto Express, Top Gear and Match of the Day, which he launched as editor in 1996. He wrote his first book, A Game of Two Halves - Football Yesterday and Today, in 2002 and has since written over 30 non-fiction titles on everything from football to the English language. In 2018 he self-published Word of the Week: Volume One, his first foray into self-publishing.