Biggest Rivalry in Football

[LoyalRoyalFan]

Get the book 'Mad for It'. Its a great read on the biggest rivalries in football. It should answer your questions.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mad-Blackpool-B ... 0007280807

[Terminal Boardom]

Millwall -v- West Ham has been entertaining in the past. If my memory serves me well enough, there is a massive rivalry in Kenya between Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards. One game, I think in 93 or 94, was abandoned with 5 minutes to go with Leopards 2-0 up. THere was a full scale riot in Nairobi resulting in about 20 deaths and 50 pence worth of damage to public buildings. That rivalry based on tribal differences in the Rift Valley area where they kick off every 5 minutes or so with some sort of riot/attack.

[Terminal Boardom]

Since the Hunt/Cech "incident" you'd have to put Reading/Chelsea in there, at least from Chelsea's point of view

another +1 for a Reading fan bringing this subject up.

and I would have thought + several thousand for Harry biting again

[frimmers]

Millwall -v- West Ham has been entertaining in the past. If my memory serves me well enough, there is a massive rivalry in Kenya between Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards. One game, I think in 93 or 94, was abandoned with 5 minutes to go with Leopards 2-0 up. THere was a full scale riot in Nairobi resulting in about 20 deaths and 50 pence worth of damage to public buildings. That rivalry based on tribal differences in the Rift Valley area where they kick off every 5 minutes or so with some sort of riot/attack.

millwall west ham? and the last meeting of late was when? and why should there be a rivalry between an east london and south london football club?

[rabidbee]

No idea, but the t-shirts on sale outside the New Den are not ambiguous about Millwall's relationship with West Ham. It was presumably about who had the hardest firm. (Or should that just be firmest?)

[Terminal Boardom]

Millwall -v- West Ham has been entertaining in the past. If my memory serves me well enough, there is a massive rivalry in Kenya between Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards. One game, I think in 93 or 94, was abandoned with 5 minutes to go with Leopards 2-0 up. THere was a full scale riot in Nairobi resulting in about 20 deaths and 50 pence worth of damage to public buildings. That rivalry based on tribal differences in the Rift Valley area where they kick off every 5 minutes or so with some sort of riot/attack.

millwall west ham? and the last meeting of late was when? and why should there be a rivalry between an east london and south london football club?

True they have not met that often of late. However, there have been some tasty encounters in the 70s and 80s. IIRC, a west ham fan was killed on the tube by millwall.

[Terminal Boardom]

I thought it was more related to the Spanish Civil War - when Real was Franco's club and Barcelona

One incident in many centuries of fighting that just happened to be particularly bloody.

It didn't help that Franco subsequently supported Real Madrid and cracked down on the various subsections of Spain - Basques, Catalans, Galicians all suffered the same measures.

There was the serious rivalry around the 70s between Spain and Yugoslavia. Obviously down to politics with the fascist regime in Spain under Franco and what was left of Tito the communist dictator in the Balkans. I remember seeing a bit on tv and there was near on a full scale riot and players being hit with glass bottles. Claret everywhere.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

I remember seeing a bit on tv and there was near on a full scale riot and players being hit with glass bottles. Claret everywhere.

And to think, in the uncultured UK it'd have been beer in the bottles.

[papereyes]

No idea, but the t-shirts on sale outside the New Den are not ambiguous about Millwall's relationship with West Ham. It was presumably about who had the hardest firm. (Or should that just be firmest?)

soapiest

[leww_rfc]

fair to say, we know the answer now...

and for the morons who are wondering who?

West Ham, Millwall

[FiNeRaIn]

LOL at a cup game 11k below capacity being considered the biggest rivalry in football. Maybe in london.

[leww_rfc]

LOL at a cup game 11k below capacity being considered the biggest rivalry in football. Maybe in london.

yes 11k because the rest were outside fighting..

[SWLR]

Like the way the West Bom programme referred to Reading players who had a link to 'Staffordshire'.... i.e couldn't bring itself to say Wolves.

[handbags_harris]

But West Brom v Wolves is hardly the biggest in football. That belongs, IMO, to Rangers v Celtic.

[SWLR]

But West Brom v Wolves is hardly the biggest in football. That belongs, IMO, to Rangers v Celtic.

True, but the only one that matters in the Black Country.

[Jerry St Clair]

No mention of the infamous Didcot Triangle then?

For years we've battled over which is best - employment in IT, the railways, or education.

[papereyes]

I thought it was more related to the Spanish Civil War - when Real was Franco's club and Barcelona

One incident in many centuries of fighting that just happened to be particularly bloody.

It didn't help that Franco subsequently supported Real Madrid and cracked down on the various subsections of Spain - Basques, Catalans, Galicians all suffered the same measures.

There was the serious rivalry around the 70s between Spain and Yugoslavia. Obviously down to politics with the fascist regime in Spain under Franco and what was left of Tito the communist dictator in the Balkans. I remember seeing a bit on tv and there was near on a full scale riot and players being hit with glass bottles. Claret everywhere.

They could have finished their drinks first.

[Kitsondinho]

Get the book 'Mad for It'. Its a great read on the biggest rivalries in football. It should answer your questions.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mad-Blackpool-B ... 0007280807

A superb book.....can I also say that

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Us-V-Them-Giles ... 0141010347

is very good too.