The South Coast Derby
Brighton v Bournemouth
100 miles
It's amazing how many people wouldn't bat an eyelid at hearing that but are riled by the idea of Brighton and Palace being rivals.
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[Football] 'Local' Derbies
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It's amazing how many people wouldn't bat an eyelid at hearing that but are riled by the idea of Brighton and Palace being rivals.
Most of the people in my office (Magpies, Mackems and one Tractor Boy) seemed surprised when I explained to them that Palace is our derby game.
They generally thought it would be Portsmouth.
They generally thought it would be Portsmouth.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Well you can't blame them, it does make much more sense geographically. Our rivalry does go deeper with them historically. Our spat with Palace is far more recent.
B52
New member
That may be because it is not a derby, it is a bitter rivalry!
portlock seagull
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- Jul 28, 2003
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It’s nearly 50 years, hardly recent. Certainly long enough to be deemed historical, especially when everyone knows Pompey & Soton is their rivalry/derby. It’s hardly our fault that ignorance amongst the wider football fans and pundits communities continues, Christ, how many more games do we have to play against ‘them’ that start with ‘To the wider footballing world it may be a surprise...blah blah blah’ Clearly people are stupid (because they can’t remember) or so far up their Sky Boxset they’ve never heard of club rivalries/derbies beyond the top 6. It’s as if until Sky endorse by promoting and showing as THE 4pm Sunday live fixture it somehow invalidates our grudge match. Well, you can that that and shove it up your ‘football started in 1993’ arse I say.
Proudly Hating Palace. Because of Boxing Day. As all proper Albion fans know and do.
Nottseagull
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Isn't London - Brighton 50miles? So from Falmer, that would place Selhurst Park somewhere near Pimlico.
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- Jul 10, 2003
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That started years ago, arguing over who had first go with the Skate (Portsmouth won that one)
schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/A...7222f2816b2!2m2!1d-0.0860576!2d51.3979743!3e0
46 miles by road; 37 miles by African Swallow.
(right-click -> "Measure distance")
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Why do you say this every time we play? Palace makes much more sense than Pompey as we have hardly played them over the years and have played palace far far more often. Palace is also considerably nearer than Portsmouth and London in general is a similar distance whether you are from the East or West part of Sussex. Hampshire is, however, very far from East Sussex so for half of the county does not register as 'nearby'.
Return of the Rev
Well-known member
Pompey too hard tbh, stick with an easier rivalry.
The Large One
Who's Next?
"The phrase most likely originated from The Derby, a horse race in England, founded by the 12th Earl of Derby in 1780. The 19th Earl has since confirmed the Derby name was given to only two sporting events: the Rugby league game from either end of the family's Knowsley estate between St Helens and Wigan being the other. Since at least as early as 1840 'derby' has been used as a noun in English to denote any kind of sporting contest."
This is a definition of 'derby' in the Collins Dictionary, and not one I'd heard before. I'm calling BS on this one.
I'd always been led to believe it was because a mad game of 'football' (in reality, a mass game of British Bulldog), played between two ends of a village in Derbyshire. And anyway, I prefer this story to the horse racing one. So there.
This is a definition of 'derby' in the Collins Dictionary, and not one I'd heard before. I'm calling BS on this one.
I'd always been led to believe it was because a mad game of 'football' (in reality, a mass game of British Bulldog), played between two ends of a village in Derbyshire. And anyway, I prefer this story to the horse racing one. So there.
*Gullsworth*
My Hair is like his hair
Portsmouth to Southampton is around 18 miles. No one else comes close to being a Derby for either of them.
Vankleek Hill Seagull
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Another "local" rivalry that existed was Columbus Crew vs. Toronto FC. Only a 7 hour drive (approx. 430 miles), but fans from both teams made a long weekend of it. Now that Montreal is part of MLS, Columbus doesn't get a look-in as rivals. However, the atmosphere for both TFC vs. Montreal games is intense mainly because it's an English vs. French mentality, albeit Canadian style.
That Columbus thing doesn't count - it only lasted about 2 years! I know TFC took 2,000 there for one game but it's not really a derby or even much of a rivalry these days. As you say, Montreal is now the big one, and Columbus are just about to get Cincinatti...
neilbard
Hedging up
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exKT17
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AFC Wimbledon vs MK Dons, 60 odd miles
TheJasperCo
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I think the Dundee/ Dundee Utd derby is the shortest distance between two ground (in the world perhaps). I wonder how locals decide which one to support - probably whichever one is doing better.
Marty McFly
Seagulls Over Canada
As someone who was, and shortly will be again, based in Ottawa I feel I need to declare an allegiance to one or the other. Nearer to Montreal, but am an Anglophone... Decisions, decisions!
sir albion
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To be honest most modern day derbies are gash now anyway.The feisty derbies are few and far between....
wakeytom
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I know its not ground but AC v Inter must be a pretty close one?