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Biggest derby of the season...
- Thread starter KT17
- Start date
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
1. Its not a derby.
2. Don't they play each other before then ?
2. Don't they play each other before then ?
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
- 11,876
10 Dec.
And it's not really the biggest derby either is it.
And it's not really the biggest derby either is it.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Other than that though, good thread.
JOLovegrove
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- Jan 30, 2012
- 2,060
Totally agree though.
No one in the media or worldwide will have any interstest in Pep Guardiola's City travelling across Manchester to play his there fierce rivals, Jose Mourinho's United this Saturday, both still with 100% records.
Give me the League 1 scrap any day...
No one in the media or worldwide will have any interstest in Pep Guardiola's City travelling across Manchester to play his there fierce rivals, Jose Mourinho's United this Saturday, both still with 100% records.
Give me the League 1 scrap any day...
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Brian Fantana
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This has gone well 
Reading?! They're so tinpot that I don't think any club considers a match against them to be a derby.
Brian Fantana
Well-known member
I don't think we have one. I think it dimishes the concept if you always look for someone to fill the role each season.
If we're talking grudge matches, then obviously we'd like a bit of revenge on Wednesday.
bn1&bn3 Albion
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Can't stand Reading but that's more from personal experiences when we've played them.
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
Remainer
Peacehaven v Newhaven - Boxing Day - 3.1 miles, that's a derby!
Of course not. The biggest derby plays at IPro Stadium.
Mo Gosfield
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- Aug 11, 2010
- 6,362
We have no derby any season.
Some of our fans have this ridiculous notion that a South London club, with 15 other teams nearer to them and even teams like Reading, Stevenage and Southend about the same distance away from Selhurst as us, is our derby game. Its utter nonsense. Its laughable. Crawley is the only game that could reasonably be called a derby....same county etc....but it could be some time before we meet in league action.
Some of our fans have this ridiculous notion that a South London club, with 15 other teams nearer to them and even teams like Reading, Stevenage and Southend about the same distance away from Selhurst as us, is our derby game. Its utter nonsense. Its laughable. Crawley is the only game that could reasonably be called a derby....same county etc....but it could be some time before we meet in league action.
Worried Man Blues
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Is a derby about distance or rivalry, south coast derby used to be Bournemouth as the others were out of reach league wise. Rangers aren't Celtic's closest by a long chalk
Medwayseagull
JCB
People need to distinguish a derby from a rivalry - they are not the same things.
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
Remainer
Deleted......I can't be bothered
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
Remainer
Oh god the love of Christ......only on here, sake
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
If the rival team one plays is considered to be local, then it's a local derby. It was always described as such by the media since I was a boy in the 70's. So Saturdays match is a local derby.
Mo Gosfield
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- Aug 11, 2010
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I know I'm in the minority. The vast majority of lemmings got swept up in the Palace thing years ago and now haven't got the guts to admit that its past its sell-by date, false and pretty meaningless. We should be comfortable in our natural neutrality and not desperate to perpetuate something that has no historical or geographical substance.