Did you know that in between a Liverpool victory in March 1994 and another Reds win April 1999, Everton remained unbeaten in Merseyside derbies?

In nine matches between that span, the Blue side of the city won three times, which does not sound too impressive on the face of it.

But this was coming at a time when Everton were at a relatively low ebb, often battling Premier League relegation during the '90s.

The 1995-96 campaign was an exception in the period between 1991 and 2002, when they never finished above 13th in the table.

But 1995-96 broke the mould by finishing sixth and in their head-to-heads with Liverpool and Andrei Kanchelskis who had signed from Manchester United in the summer of 1995 for a then £5M record fee proved to be the crucial difference.

The Russian winger had shone at Man United the previous season and continued in that vein for the Toffees, scoring 16 Premier League goals in 1995-96, including this double in the first Merseyside derby of that campaign with Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler netting the Reds' only goal in a 2-1 result:

Both players would hog the goals again in the return game which ended in a 1-1 stalemate at Goodison Park:

Fowler would finish the season with 28 goals, just three off Premier League top scorer Alan Shearer that season, while Kanchelskis notched a creditable 16 from the Everton flanks before departing for Italian side Fiorentina.