YOU'RE either a Red or you're a Blue.

But imagine if you could pool your all-time Wrexham favourites you've ever seen with the Chester players you've always admired.

Over the years I've been lucky enough to watch these cross border battles as a fan, as a reporter on both sides of the Press Box and sat in the comfort of my own home, watching the two rivals scrap it out on the telly.

So I thought I'd pick my best Wrexham/Chester team ever, based on the dynamite derbies I've seen over the years.

December 27 1976 was my first ever. A crowd of 15,412 for a Christmas cracker which Wrexham won 4-2.

Graham Whittle, who would shoot on sight, smashed a hat-trick and my all-time Wrexham hero, Bobby Shinton got the other.

Whittle had a great derby record and for that reason he's the first name on the team-sheet with 'Shinner' only making the bench.

Alongside Whittle upfront would be one of the best goal-scorers I've ever seen and one of a whole host of players who became an idol to fans both sides of the border. Gary Bennett.

Benno was Brian Flynn's best-ever signing. A free transfer from Chester for who he inflicted serious damage on his would-be employers on a snowbound Racecourse pitch in January 1987.

He ended Wrexham's FA Cup dream with two-typically predatory goals in a 2-1 third round win in a game in which Blues keeper Billy Stewart played a blinder.

He had snowballs pelted at him from the Kop and kept everything out on the pitch that the Wrexham team, for whom current director of Football Barry Horne scored that day, could throw at him.

Stewart dons the gloves and his understudy is another Blues keeper, who performed heroics on a Valentine's Day date that Chester fans always love to remember.

Dave Felgate didn't have that many good games for Chester but this was one, including a penalty save from Gary Bennett as Chester snatched a 2-2 draw in February 1995 with only nine men left on a mudheap of a Racecourse pitch.

Two other Chester players and one marauding Reds midfielder make my all-star line up from that game.

Chester match-winner Andy Milner is the obvious one for scoring one of the best derby goals I've ever seen.

Left back Iain Jenkins also gets the nod in what was a backs-to-the-wall, heroic defensive display from a Blues side that didn't have much to shout about that season.

The Wrexham box-to-box midfielder was ironically Chester-born. Gareth Owen set up a goal for Bennett and had scored Wrexham's goal at The Deva in a 1-1 draw earlier that season.

The Blues traditionally have done well at Wrexham in the modern-era and just two months after knocking Wrexham out of the FA Cup, they were 3-1 extra-time winners in a Freight Rover Trophy Northern Section semi final at The Racecourse.

Midfield powerhouse Graham Barrow, inspired by the late, great Harry McNally, always gave his all and scored in that game.

He would line up in a four-man midfield that would be completed on the left by a Wrexham player who ended Chester's FA Cup dreams at The Deva.

Karl Connolly had a wand of a left foot and him, Milner, Owen and Barrow would give any midfield quartet a 

run for their money.

That just leaves two centre back berths and the right back position to fill.

And you have to go back to a Sherpa Van Trophy tie this time, four days before Christmas Day at Sealand Road in 1988 - the day of the Lockerbie disaster.

Wrexham won 2-1 where Joey Jones, who will captain the all-time team, was rock solid and one of the Reds' scorers that night, who went on to captain Chester. Roger Preece.

Preece was a lovely guy off the pitch but an animal on it. Him and Joey were made for derbies.

And to complete the team, for those who think this is all about 'how brilliant football was in the old days' the final place in the side goes to the man who scored the winner at The Deva 12 months ago, Chester's up-and-coming defender, Ben Heneghan.

Completing the five man bench are Blues centre back Bob Delgado, who never had a bad game on the three times I saw him, Wrexham striker Juan Ugarte, who scored at The Deva during Wrexham's LDV Vans Trophy winning year in 2005 and a Wrexham midfielder who had a knack of scoring against Chester in the Eighties, Andy Edwards.

ALL-STAR DERBY LINE-UP: Billy Stewart (Chester); Roger Preece (Wrexham), Joey Jones (Wrexham), Ben Heneghan (Chester), Iain Jenkins (Chester), Andy Milner (Chester), Graham Barrow (Chester), Gareth Owen (Wrexham), Karl Connolly (Wrexham); Graham Whittle (Wrexham), Gary Bennett (Chester). Subs: Dave Felgate (Chester), Bob Delgado (Chester), Bobby Shinton (Wrexham), Andy Edwards (Wrexham), Juan Ugarte (Wrexham). Manager: Harry McNally.