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Next weekend sees the return of the footballing fixture that Hampshire Constabulary have been dreading, Southampton vs Portsmouth! I am of course a Saints fan and have attended three of these fixtures when we were both in the Premiership. They tend to be pretty ugly on the basis of us not really liking each other very much. Some politican was recently asked what was the worst form of discrimination he'd come across and he replied seriously that, "the unfounded mutual loathing between the populations of Southampton and Portsmouth beggars belief."

Now I consider myself a level headed individual and don't get involved too much in this kind of silliness beyond booing Portsmouth everytime they touch the ball. I have however seen the vitirol between the two sets of fans at first hand with one Portsmouth fan being physically restrained by police officers from his efforts to take on a whole crowd of Saints fans on route to Fratton Park. I later caught sight of him in the stadium (not sure why he was let in?!) and he never took his eyes off us during the entire match, our very presence making him livid. This was the occasion that Portsmouth beat us 1-0 and (a small section of) their fans celebrated victory by trashing their own town.

So is this the greatest sporting rivalry of all time or are there worst ones elsewhere in the world?

I reckon Boca Juniors vs River Plate is probably worse. People get killed.

Iran vs. Israel
N. Korea vs. S. Korea
China vs. Taiwan

Yankees v Red Sox-Baseball
Cowboys-Eagles-Football
Lakers-Celtics-Basketball
Are some good ones over here.

Cheese-eating surrender monkey's vs Almighty Thor and his kick-butt father Odin.

I.E. Greenbay Packers vs. Minnesota Vikings.

Gwar! wrote:Iran vs. Israel
N. Korea vs. S. Korea
China vs. Taiwan

India vs Pakistan in the cricket. Funnily enough these games tend to be played and watched in good spirits, as everyone gets a good solid dose of perspective and realises there are a lot more important things than sport.

On the other hand in aussie rules the West Coast Eagles (which for the most part represent the northern half of Perth and also the forces of truth and goodness) play the Fremantle Dockers (the southern end of the city) is an incredibly spiteful affair, despite the fact that for the rest of the year there's no divide between north and south beyond some gentle ribbing. No-one in the rest of the country cares much at all about either team but they all tune in come the derby to see if the two teams will end up punching hell out of each other.

Dinamo vs Hajduk,heads get bashed.

Cambridge and Oxford if Blackadder is anything to go by.

Celtic v Rangers make Portsmouth and Southampton look soft. + theres a ton of religious motive to boot. But it has got better in the past twenty years.

Today it would surely be AC Milan/Inter milan. They share the same stadium and have huge fences seperating their different areas. There have been reports of Inter fans hauling motorbikes up into there area then throwing them over the fence onto AC fans during derby games.

Fenerbahçe vs Galatasaray

Red Sox v. Yankees

Patriots v. Colts

Redskins Vs. Cowboys
Oxford United Vs. Swindon Town
American Idol Vs. Good Taste
Duke Vs. UNC
England Vs. Germany
Frazzled! Vs. The 21st Century
Liverpool Vs. Everton

viney wrote:Yankees v Red Sox-Baseball
Cowboys-Eagles-Football
Lakers-Celtics-Basketball
Are some good ones over here.

You must be an Eagles fan to put Cowboys-Eagles on that list. One of the conditions for a great rivalry is that it must be completely mutual hatred, and I don't think the Cowboys fans hate the Eagles like the Eagles fans hate the Cowboys.

Packers-Bears is better. Steelers-Browns used to be better, but is a shell of a rivalry now.

Seeing as I'm a college football guy.

Ohio State vs Michigan
Florida vs Florida State


GG

gorgon wrote:

viney wrote:Yankees v Red Sox-Baseball
Cowboys-Eagles-Football
Lakers-Celtics-Basketball
Are some good ones over here.

You must be an Eagles fan to put Cowboys-Eagles on that list. One of the conditions for a great rivalry is that it must be completely mutual hatred, and I don't think the Cowboys fans hate the Eagles like the Eagles fans hate the Cowboys.

Packers-Bears is better. Steelers-Browns used to be better, but is a shell of a rivalry now.

I don't think anyone can hate another team or their own team as much as the eagles fans do
ps I can't stand either team......

Notre Dame v. Michigan (may Notre Dame's blades chip and shatter)

Blackhawks v. Redwings

Bears v. Packers

Cubs v. Sox (not a real rivalry, until recently)

Harvard v. Yale

Pakistan vs India

Maate, that stuff is intense. I remember as a kid practicing cricket and neabry we could see a horde of Paki's watching the cricket match in the local mosque. There was roaring and screaming, and I remember hoping that, whatever happend, Pakistan won. Who knows what they would have done if India came out on top.

Other than that, Aus and NZ and also the Brits have a fair bit of rivalry going on.

Togo Vs The Confederation of African Football....



As for hand egg:
Ravens Vs Steelter
Ravens Vs Indy

Norwich City Vs Ipswich Town.

Voted more violent than:

Rangers Vs Celtic
Manchester United Vs Liverpool
Newcastle United Vs Sunderland

And that was published in NUTS magazine.

And I'm from Norwich, WE SHOOT BURGLERS

I just noticed that the auto abbreviation translater...thing Reads 'Wood Elves SHOOT BURGLERS'
funny old world innit

The Dutch have some hardcore guys too:

Ajax vs Feyenoord
Ajax vs Den Hagg

http://www.football-hooligans.org/dutch-hooligans.html

Bringing a bomb.....is quite another level altogether.

generalgrog wrote:Seeing as I'm a college football guy.

Ohio State vs Michigan
Florida vs Florida State


GG

A friend who was telling me about the Superbowl last night was saying that the rivalry and excitement about college football is far stronger usually than it is with regards to the national sides. Is this fair comment ?

From the little clip on "Stephen Fry in America" it did seem quite OTT for what was, AFAIK, little more than two colleges playing against each other.

gorgon wrote:
Packers-Bears is better. Steelers-Browns used to be better, but is a shell of a rivalry now.

For a while the Bears stunk so bad, I would almost feel sorry for them.

The crowd at Lambeau gets nasty. The announcers try to ignore "The Bears still suck!" chant that happens every 4th quarter.

I figure Eagles fans hate everyone else.

ZF-

Gonna go with:

St. Louis Cardinals vs Chicago Cubs