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Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Essential Football podcast. Looking ahead to this weekend's massive, massive game, a second-placed Liverpool travel to leaders. Manchester City live on Sky Sports this Sunday with only a point between the pair and seven games to go in the title race after this one. Big games need big name, so I'm delighted to be joined by Sky Sports Very Own,

Jamie Carriger to look ahead to the game.

Jamie, have you been looking forward to this one for a while?

Yeah, I think it's been in the calendar for a while the last certainly a few weeks.

I think a few months ago, I think we've almost written this off from a Liverpool point of view

that it wasn't that important as such, but the fact that Liverpool have, you know, miraculously caught Manchester City up now and there's just so much

riding and it feels like a title decided, even though there's still a lot of football to be played,

but it's certainly a lot more important than, you know, initially envisaged. Yeah, let's get,

straight down to business.

You mentioned it there that it feels like a Premier League title decided.

Do you think it actually will be?

I think it will be more so if City win.

I don't think it will be if Liverpool won.

I just think four points with, I think, maybe eight to nine games to go, is a big lead on these two teams in the Taurus.

You just win games week after week.

So I think more so if City win, the Liverpool win.

But no, there is still a way to go, no doubt.

But I think if City were to win, I think it would be, you know,

they'd have to almost throw it away.

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