With Liverpool FC boss Brendan Rodgers recently underlining the need for clubs to maintain a strong local core, we asked ECHO readers who were the best Merseysiders to have represented our two great clubs and who had slipped through the net.
We've crafted the results into the two teams listed below - click through to the gallery for each to find out more about the players chosen.
Who would win if the sides played each other and have we missed anyone out? Log in below and tell us what you think.
LIVERPOOL AND EVERTON MERSEY XI
Baker-Smith, Labone, Thompson, Baines - Callaghan Harvey Reid - Gerrard Dean Fowler ; Subs: Aldridge, Watson, McDermott, Royle, Lawler
Liverpool FC and Everton FC Merseyside XI
Jan 11 2013
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SCOUSERS ON TOUR XI
Rimmer - Caton Fagan Cullis - Coppell Mortimer Nolan Woan - Davenport Quinn Withe ; Subs: Barton, Tynan, Hignett, Lambert, Dann
The ones that got away: Mersey XI who slipped through the LFC & EFC net
Jan 11 2013
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LFC & EFC's best Mersey XI v the Scousers that got away - who would win?
Source: liverpool_echo