Crystal Palace vs Liverpool

Twenty top-flight titles and six European Cups, more than any other English club, with Istanbul 2005 the maddest of them: three down to Milan at half-time, level within six second-half minutes, champions on penalties. Anfield's Kop turned standing in the rain into theatre, Bill Shankly turned a second-division club into an institution, and You'll Never Walk Alone became football's most borrowed anthem. The 2020 title ended a thirty-year wait that had curdled into a national running joke and a local open wound. The derby is with Everton, across Stanley Park; the rivalry that defines the sport here is with Manchester United.