What it was like in delirious away end as Liverpool humiliated Manchester United at Old Trafford

Liverpool enjoyed one of the greatest away days in their history two years ago when Jurgen Klopp's side travelled to Old Trafford and beat Manchester United 5-0.

There to witness it was ECHO journalist Dan Kay, whose piece on events in the away end that night proved to be hugely popular with readers.

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The away end at Old Trafford on those occasions when Liverpool beat Manchester United is a sight and sound to behold.

Because let’s have it right, it doesn’t happen too often.

United’s matchday programme went big on the fact this was the Red Devils’ 100th home meeting with Liverpool - ‘This Is The One’ its cover declared partly in homage to the Stone Roses tune they normally play ahead of kick off - and the facts are only 18 of those games over the last 126 years have resulted in an away win.

So any kind of stuffy, scruffy result which sees travelling Kopites able to head back down the East Lancs Road with three points in their back pockets is always going to be celebrated long and loud.

But for generations of Liverpudlians who grew up during United’s era of dominance and had to live with their seemingly never-ending superiority, the infliction of a systematic 5-0 dismantling of the team who scarred many childhoods and early adulthoods is something they have waited a lifetime for.

As has often been the case during the rivalry between English football’s most heavyweight football institutions, it’s not as if during United’s period in the ascendancy that Liverpool did not have their occasional day in