LONDON: A fixture that is laced with more poison than any other on the English football calendar scarcely needed the additional spicing provided by Liverpool's Spanish striker Fernando Morientes.
The former Real Madrid and Monaco forward claims the robust nature of meetings between his new club and Manchester United – who face each other at Old Trafford on today – would not be tolerated by referees on the other side of the English channel.
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