Today’s Super Sunday matches between Manchester United and Liverpool as well as Tottenham Hotspur versus Arsenal provide an opportunity to earn bragging rights. League positions matter today, but winning a local derby is often more important than anything else.

As usual, we have an open thread available today for you — the readers — to comment about the game. But there’s one big difference. We welcome Johnathan Starling back to World Soccer Talk, where he’ll be doing a live online chat (featuring audio) from 9:20am ET onwards right here:

Feel free to interact directly with Johnathan by clicking in the above chat box and then taking 30 seconds to sign up via Facebook, Twitter or e-mail. If you’d like to appear on-air with Johnathan to ask him a question or vent about your team (or anything else soccer-related to today), let Johnathan know in the above chat and he may bring you on-air.

Meanwhile, here’s today’s TV/Internet schedule for soccer fans in the US:

Manchester United vs Liverpool, 9:30am, NBCSN
Spurs vs Arsenal, Noon, NBCSN

Starting line-ups:

Manchester United: De Gea; Rafael, Jones, Vidic, Evra; Mata, Fellaini, Carrick, Januzaj; Rooney, van Persie
Subs: Lindegaard, Ferdinand, Cleverley, Kagawa, Valencia, Young, Welbeck

Liverpool: Mignolet, Johnson, Skrtel, Agger, Flanagan, Gerrard, Allen, Henderson, Sterling, Suarez, Sturridge
Subs: Jones, Sakho, Cissokho, Lucas, Coutinho, Moses, Aspas

Before, during or after today’s matches, join the conversation in the comments section below with fellow soccer fans from around the world.

Have a wonderful Sunday.