British Football Rivalry

As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
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Ted B
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British Football Rivalry

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My mate reckons Swansea/Cardiff is the most fierce. :?

I'd go for Celtic/Rangers. 8)

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for violence on a regular basis has to be cardiff swansea.

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Post by Nice_Guy »

Welling/Dover.

We hate Dover :x

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Post by Ted B »

"violence on a regular basis" :lol: funny that, those two side's meet at 11:00 a week on sunday. :shock:

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Post by Radford149 »

Karel wrote:"violence on a regular basis" :lol: funny that, those two side's meet at 11:00 a week on sunday. :shock:
Radford thinks that our own derby with the **** is up there for sheer hatred. those that have been to the swamp/shithole/toilet etc can testify to this

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Post by MK Gould »

Radford149 wrote:
Karel wrote:"violence on a regular basis" :lol: funny that, those two side's meet at 11:00 a week on sunday. :shock:
Radford thinks that our own derby with the y**s is up there for sheer hatred. those that have been to the swamp/shithole/toilet etc can testify to this
From what you read it has to be Swansea/Cardiff, although Celtic/Rangers would probably match it if it wasn't so well policed.

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Post by McGunner »

Swasea/Cardiff, they are both animals.

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Post by CelticTiger »

Shamrock Rovers v Bohemians

and below that Celtic-Rangers

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Post by RocastleRock »

Cardiff/millwall see's abit of bloodshed, but they are not local ofcourse.

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Post by Ted B »

i guess millwall and west ham also see's some blood shed.

looking at a cardiff's mate's pic's, i wouldnt wanna be on the wrong end of a fight with either :shock: they literally want to kill! :)

oh, and you know that bollocks they did with tapping their heads everytime we sung sheep shaggers to them, my cardiff mate gave me this explanation:

"Haha a lot of people ask that, it's called the Ayatollah. It's something we've had for ages from when we were in League Two and proper, nearly as bad as Tottenham, shit. The Iranian leader died, who's called the Ayatollah and at his funeral all his followers were hitting their heads with their hands to show grief, so as a joke one of our fans who saw it on tv started doing it at a match when we were about 5 - 0 down to Maccessfield or someone like that and it just took off." 8)

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Birr town and Highfield utd.

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Post by gooner_4_Life 1991 »

Abingdon Town v Abingdon United

Oxford United v Swindon Town

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Post by Irish Gooner »

Arsenal - Spurs
Celtic - Rangers
Wham - Millwall

For history and everything else (:wink: ). These would be my top 3.

Some lesser ones.

Cardiff - Swansea
Linfield - Glentoran

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Post by dundeegunner »

aberdeen and hibs

their "firms" had had some legendary clashes

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Post by JakeN13 »

I'd say the Glagow derby. They probably have the biggest fan base in Britain and there's so much more to it than football, unfortunately.

The north east derby betweenthe barcodes & mackems is an underrated one.

Spurs hatred towards us is ridiculously big but since we really don't take them half as seriously as they do with us I don't think it can compete with some of the other derbies.

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