1 West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 Ipswich Town and Norwich City 3 Liverpool and Manchester United 4 Portsmouth and Southampton 5 Cardiff City and Swansea City 6 Aston Villa and Birmingham City 7 Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday 8 Bristol City and Bristol Rovers 9 Newcastle United and Sunderland 10 Brighton and Crystal Palace 11 Derby County and Nottingham Forest 12 Blackpool and Preston North End 13 Darlington and Hartlepool United 14 Luton Town and Watford 15 Blackburn Rovers and Burnley 16 Port Vale and Stoke City 17 Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur 18 Grimsby Town and Scunthorpe United 19 Everton and Liverpool 20 Leeds United and Manchester United 21 Chester City and Wrexham 22 Chesterfield and Mansfield Town 23 Northampton T and Peterborough United 24 Bury and Rochdale 25 Manchester City and Manchester United 26 Coventry City and Leicester City 27 Millwall and West Ham United 28 Accrington Stanley and Morecambe 29 Colchester United and Southend United 30 Macclesfield Town and Stockport County
i am glad that wolves and west brom came out first although i have always thought that there may be a bigger rivalry somewhere in the country but i must say it goes a lot deeper then football.
Originally posted by Degger: Obviously, most of them are neighbouring towns / cities, but Brighton / Palace & Accrington Stanley / Morcambe
Palace and Brighton have been rivals since the 70's, maybe earlier. I do agree, and have always thought, that it's one of the stranger rivalries though
Originally posted by sassy123: 24 Bury and Rochdale 25 Manchester City and Manchester United 27 Millwall and West Ham United
Bury/Rochdale above the Manchester derby? does this mean that Bury v Rochdale is the most fierce derby in the Greater Manchester area? And is it more fierce than probably the most violent game in the English league calendar, Millwall v West Ham?
I'm surprised to see Norwich and Ipswich up there but it is true, that many of the fans of both teams do mutually hate each other.
Ipswich (town LOL) have the historical success and Norwich have the 'fine' and more important city. And the bigger and better club! (of course) And Delia (they don't like her very much either!)
Ipswich was always the grudge game of the season with the highest crowds in the days when both clubs were in the old first division and playing Liverpool and Manchester United every season.
I'm not surprised Liverpool and Everton are so low in the list, because you can't have much of a deep animosity with people who you probably work with and drink with the rest of the time.
I think the list represents how real fans actually feel rather that the more media manufactured Premiership rivalries.
Originally posted by ugetmi: I'm not surprised Liverpool and Everton are so low in the list, because you can't have much of a deep animosity with people who you probably work with and drink with the rest of the time.
Originally posted by Degger: Obviously, most of them are neighbouring towns / cities, but Brighton / Palace & Accrington Stanley / Morcambe
Palace and Brighton have been rivals since the 70's, maybe earlier. I do agree, and have always thought, that it's one of the stranger rivalries though
I dont see why its so strange as they are the closest team to Brighton geographically unless you count teams like Crawley and Lewes etc. Its a half hour direct train ride away. They played a lot of games while in the same division until the last 5-10 years and Crystal Palace is not considered London by a lot of teams so therefore hard for them to be considered a real rival for any of them...
---------------------------------------------------- Touched by his noodly appendage - RAmen.
If I remember the rivalry started at the time of the breaking of Gerry Ryans leg and ending his career who was a massive favourite at Brighton and some crowd trouble in the late 70's early 80's.
---------------------------------------------------- Touched by his noodly appendage - RAmen.
In the same manner I'm surprised that Liverpool and Man Utd are there. What do they do? Do they criticise the corporate entertainment and food, or set fire to each other's 4X4s.
