Normal One on Special One: If you’re not a journalist or referee he’s a nice guy

Relegation battlers Chelsea welcome mid-table floaters Liverpool to Stamford Bridge on Saturday in what is sure to be a right good old scrap. Over the next 48 hours or so expect to have the monikers Normal One and Special One rammed into your ears until you obediently adopt them and never mention their actual names ever again. Or, at least until another manager washes up on these shores and proclaims another ‘One’ title.

Speaking before the clash, Liverpool manager the Normal One was his usual mischievous self, cheekily claiming that his opposite number, the Special One was a nice guy providing your’re not a referee or journalist or a medical professional for that matter. (We might have added that last one on there).

The battle of the monikers kick’s off at 12.45pm on Saturday.