MOTD Top 10: What has been your favourite Premier League managerial rivalry?

The Match of the Day Top 10 podcast is back… nearly.

Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards will return in the spring with their latest series of the BBC Sounds hit, ranking their top 10s from an assortment of topics across the Premier League era.

But we're giving you an early chance to get involved, by letting you pick your top three for each of the upcoming shows, and the trio will get to see your choices before they record the pod.

Today, the subject is: Premier League managerial rivalries.

It is not just on the pitch when things can get heated, and we have seen numerous controversial moments involving the managers on the touchline as well.

«There have been a few of these, haven't there?» said host Lineker. «Most of them involving the same people, but any excuse to talk about our experiences with various managers.

»Managers have always been hugely important and charismatic figures, from the days of Sir Matt Busby and Bill Shankly to the likes of Brian Clough and Terry Venables in my playing days.

«What we began to see in the 1990s onwards, though, was a more intense or even personal rivalry, which included them trying to wind each other up, like we famously saw with Sir Alex Ferguson and Kevin Keegan in 1996 when Manchester United and Newcastle were going head-to-head for the title.

»We saw the same with Ferguson and Rafael Benitez, and Ferguson with Arsene Wenger too. For a while it was always Ferguson — I wonder why that is! It's probably because he was around forever, and was so incredibly successful of course.

«Most of these rivalries are probably another product of the Premier League era, and the increased media attention that came with it. The cameras capture more of these moments and sometimes help to cause the