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This fixture has been played for 150 years, the first one taking place on the Meadows in 1875 and won by Hearts. By 1960, the Edinburgh sides had won their fair share of trophies.

The 2022/23 season will be interrupted by the World Cup, which means that every time an elite player feels the back of their hamstring, a chorus of ‘Will he be fit for Qatar?’ will resound.

The league would be decided on the final day, with Arsenal having to beat Liverpool by two clear goals to give them the title on goals scored.

In the next week, four big matches take place: a repeat of the 2018 Champions League final involving Liverpool and Real Madrid.

Highbury. May 3 1998. Tony Adams, Arsenal captain, is through on the Everton goal. His team are already 3-0 up and have wrapped up the Premier League on the final day of the season.

It’s the time of year known to all football fans as ‘the end of the domestic season’. Ordinarily these fans would expect a World Cup to follow but, given that in Doha temperatures are set to top 100 degrees Fahrenheit this week, it is not prudent to hold a football tournament in June and July. 

In 1970, Leeds United and Chelsea cancelled each other out at Wembley Stadium. A 2-2 draw in the FA Cup final after 120 minutes of football led to the first replay since before the Great War.

The Premier League approaches the final weekend with the long-awaited North London derby, which was postponed back in January due to an outbreak of COVID in the red team’s ranks. 

A departure for this week’s Charge Your Glasses piece as the focus is not on a club or a meeting between two old foes, but on a fixture in every football season: the UEFA Champions League semi-final.

This week sees the second leg of the semi-finals of European competition, which is also the subject of Wednesday’s piece on this site. Looking at the history of the game which decides the finalists, there have been plenty of exciting and invigorating matches and Manchester City have added their name to the rollcall.

They are called the Mackems because ‘we mack ‘em and you tack ‘em’ was a famous phrase when Sunderland was a shipbuilding city. Today, the football team can be found in the third tier of English football and on Netflix too.

It’s another European week, with the first leg of the semi-finals of the three main continental tournaments. Incredibly, though unsurprisingly, British clubs are represented in all three of them.