derbys

[wbn61]

remember as a youngster palace v brighton being seen as a derby

 

[Yid4life]

remember as a youngster palace v brighton being seen as a derby

Plenty of animosity in that game. No a local rivalry as such but plenty of bad blood that goes back to the 1970s.

@Alan Whittle could probably expand.

 

[roydo]

Ah, the annual Palace/Brighton explanation!

 

[Alan Whittle]

Ah, the annual Palace/Brighton explanation!

Monthly!

 

[wbn61]

Ah, the annual Palace/Brighton explanation!

Monthly!

the public have a right to know!!!!!

 

[Alan Whittle]

the public have a right to know!!!!!

You can't handle the truth!

 

[wbn61]

You can't handle the truth!

conspiracy

 

[Jamo Martinez]

As in the Oxford dictionary a derby is a match between two local teams. How is Madrid and Barcelona a derby?

It's not. It's a classic. The big game. A grudge match, whatever people want to call it. But not a derby.

People have always talked about regional derbies to differentiate them from local derbies. eg. North-East derby involving Newcastle, Sunderland and Boro. Lancashire derby Blackburn v Bolton etc or Yorkshire derby, Leeds v Sheff Wed/Utd etc., etc.

 

[Eggs]

...I would throw Norwich v Ipswich and Burnley v Balckburn into the mix as proper Derby matches with intense rivalry.