LIVERPOOL vs CHELSEA is a modern classic, a rivalry born when Roman Abramovich bought the Blues into prominence and kicked off 20 years of tumultuous encounters: The Slip, the Ghost Goal, the feud between José Mourinho and Rafa Benitez, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard, Jamie Carragher and John Terry, Fernando Torres and Didier Drogba. There were transfer sagas, wars of words, Champions League semifinals.

But most of all, this one is an argument about what's important in football. For years, Liverpool fans would sing, "You've got no history," at their Chelsea counterparts, an ode to their many decades of trophy-stacking when the West Londoners were irrelevant. But now Chelsea have two Champions Leagues—some history, that—and have won enough to wonder whether it matters how they got there at all.

Joining us to preview this one is Beth Lindop, football writer for Reach PLC and a bona fide Merseysider. We got into all of the above and how Liverpool have changed in this young season under a new manager, Arne Slot. Plus: Jürgen Klopp's legacy, the Cole Palmer problem, and did you hear England have a new manager?

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