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'I remember it all kicking off' - The day Paul Pogba was sent off for scoring a penalty against Liverpool

Annual meetings between the two most successful sides in English football history, usually hyped beyond belief, rarely seem to deliver. But one encounter between Manchester United and Liverpool's youth sides at Anfield ended up being one of the most explosive in the rivalry's history.

March 2011 saw the two sides drawn against each other in the FA Youth Cup in front of a boisterous crowd at Anfield. The old rivals at either end of the M62 paired together in the quarter-final of the famous competition.

What followed was four red cards and five goals as two hugely talented sides did battle with then first-team manager Sir Alex Ferguson sat among the 12,000-strong Anfield crowd with then first-team manager Sir Alex Ferguson.

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Both clubs were packed with promising talents, a collection of wonder kids lured from academies across Europe, peppered with homegrown stars and childhood supporters ready to fight, and bleed, for the crest on their shirt.

"The thing that sticks with me, obviously, is the penalty with Paul Pogba," Tyrell Belford, the Liverpool keeper that day, told MEN Sport.

"I remember it all kicking off with the players and it getting quite ferocious with Conor Coady and a couple of their players.

"Then obviously, the Ravel Morrison overhead kick to finish the game off. That is what you would associated with a proper derby. It had everything, it showed everything a derby means."

A quartet of red cards were shown during an ill-tempered afternoon on Merseyside as referee David Coote struggled to control the two sides.

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