You've got to love the view of Turf Moor from the big stand, with Burnley in all its humble glory in the background. It's like a Lowry painting.

The sun is shining but it ain't warm. Shades and scarf weather.

Rob Green
Former West Ham and England goalkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Live

Brendan Rodgers will be confident in his team despite the defeat last week. They are doing themselves a disservice with the comparisons with Liverpool. Realistically they are just not on the same trajectory as them.

We're still over 30 minutes away from any actual Premier League football, so if you're after a live fix why not head on over to our Championship live page, where you'll find Nottingham Forest v Luton.

Or maybe WSL floats your boat. Birmingham are currently playing Man City, while Man Utd face Tottenham. And it's live.

Burnley manager Sean Dyche: "They [Leicester] are a good side. I like the manager and what he is trying to achieve there, they have invested heavily in the players but they are a younger group who are developing all the time with enough experience in key players in there as well."

Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers: "We weren't at our best [against Southampton] and we didn't have the energy and intensity that we would have liked.

"We work twice as hard and that's what we've done after every setback. We still have a lot to improve on."

Things aren't quite as rosy with Leicester as they were a few weeks ago.

The Foxes lost just two of their opening 17 league matches this season, but have been beaten in three of their subsequent five games.

This includes a surprise 2-1 home loss to Southampton in their last game.

So Burnley needn't be daunted by the prospect of today's match.

I don't want to depress any Burnley fans but...

Burnley have lost seven of their past nine league matches, including all four since Christmas.

They could lose five successive top-flight fixtures for the first time since a similar sequence between December 1975 and January 1976.

The Clarets have been beaten in 10 of their 11 league games this season against sides in the top half of the table prior to the weekend, with their only point coming in a 1-1 draw at Wolves.

Sean Dyche has lost all four of his managerial meetings with Brendan Rodgers - the only adversary he has faced more while losing each match is Arsene Wenger (seven defeats in seven games).

It's good news for Burnley that Jay Rodriguez is fit, if only to get another goalscorer on the pitch.

They've really struggled for consistent firepower this season.

I give you exhibit A....

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Burnley make two changes to the side that was beaten at Chelsea last Saturday. Phil Bardsley and Jay Rodriguez come in for Matthew Lowton and Aaron Lennon. Robbie Brady returns to the bench.

Burnley XI: Pope, Bardsley, Taylor, Tarkowski, Mee, Cork, McNeil, Hendrick, Westwood Rodriguez, Wood.

Subs: Hart, Lowton, Brady, Pieters, Lennon, Vydra, Long.

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Leicester, beaten at home by Southampton last weekend, also make two changes. Nampalys Mendy and Christian Fuchs come in for Ben Chilwell and Hamza Choudhury.

Wes Morgan, who been absent for the last two matches because of a groin injury, is among the substitutes.

Leicester XI: Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Fuchs, Soyuncu, Evans, Barnes, Perez, Mendy, Praet, Maddison, Vardy.

Subs: Ward, Justin, Morgan, Gray, Tielemans, Albrighton, Iheanacho.

As an extra treat, have a watch of this video.

It’s a Sportsnight report from 1977, giving a behind-the-scenes look at a day in the life of Liverpool in the year that they were chasing the treble, featuring everyone from players (including Tommy Smith having an altercation with somebody parking across his space, Phil Thompson singing on the terraces, Kevin Keegan getting loads of fan mail and showing off his kid’s new trainers – and Steve Heighway on the treatment table… in his pants) staff and management. They are preparing to host Tommy Docherty’s United side in the league.

After a brief lull, which has seen trophies arrive at Anfield and Old Trafford but the league crown go elsewhere, are we currently watching the beginning of another Liverpool rise to dominance?

They were knocked off their perch in 2011, but there will be hopeful folk in Liverpool and worried ones in Manchester that they have begun the process of reclaiming it.

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Liverpool's title win in 1990 would signal the end of their league dominance in England. It wasn't a clean handover - thanks to Arsenal and Leeds - but the baton would soon find it's way into the hands of United, who pretty much held on to it over the first 20 years of the Premier League.

United's dominance since 1990 has seen them win 13 league titles, 23 domestic cups and five European trophies, while Liverpool's success was confined to domestic and European cups.

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There were moments during this time that United could cling to - the 1977 FA Cup final being one, when United emerged 2-1 winners thanks to goals from Stuart Pearson and Jimmy Greenhof, either side of a Jimmy Case effort for Liverpool.

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The rivalry between the two intensified in the late 70s and early 80s, with some of a Liverpool leaning believing the media fawned over United in a way they did not over the far more successful side at Anfield.

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The direct rivalry between the two clubs first came to the fore in the mid-to-late 60s, with them sharing four league titles between 1964 and 1967.

However, the first division crown won by United in '67 would be their last for 26 years, while Liverpool went in the opposite direction, enjoying nearly 20 years of solid success, during which they won 11 league titles, 19 domestic cups and seven European trophies from 1972 to 1992.

Meanwhile, United seethed.

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For the uninitiated, Liverpool v Manchester United is, like Ron Burgundy, kind of a big deal.

As football rivalries go, it is in the upper bracket, along with the Old Firm derby and El Clasico in Spain. There isn't an English fixture to match it.

This is partly because of the proximity of the two cities but mainly because they are English football's two most successful clubs.

Allow us to give you a brief history lesson...

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I don't think anyone believes Liverpool are not going to win the Premier League this year and claim their 19th English league crown, 30 years after the last one.

Thirty is actually a timely number today as it will be the points gap between these sides if Liverpool win this afternoon. With four months of the season left. Ouch.

All United can do today is attempt to slow down the inevitable and give themselves the slimmest of silver linings.

If they avoid defeat, they will become the only side Liverpool have failed to beat in the league this season.

Well, it's something I guess.

"My greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their xxxxxx perch. And you can print that."

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It would be fair to say that then Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson enjoyed surpassing Liverpool's tally of 18 English league titles in 2011.

I would hazard a guess that he's probably not best pleased about the current state of play between these two fierce rivals.