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Civil war, Sisyphus and diphthongs : Why Newcastle vs Sunderland is more than a game
By Alasdair Mackenzie last updated
More Than A Game In July 2003, Jonathan Wilson and Paul Brown despair about the apparent gulf between recently relegated Sunderland and Champions League-chasing Newcastle...
Ambition, invasion and a dead parrot: Why Arsenal vs Tottenham is more than a game
By Mat Snow last updated
More Than A Game Arsenal have been annoying Spurs for years: they’ve moved in on their turf, stolen their captain, imitated their style and even managed to get them relegated. For the May 2006 FourFourTwo magazine, Mat Snow investigated the rivalry – with a little balancing help from a Gooner or two...
Marseille vs PSG: France's bitter and violent north-south divide laid bare
By Graham Berger last updated
More Than A Game The relatively recent emergence of the OM-PSG fixture hasn't stopped it becoming the most violent clash of the year, as Graham Berger discovered for the June 2003 FourFourTwo magazine...
Portuguese men o' war: why Benfica vs Sporting is more than a game
By Sergio Krithinas last updated
More Than A Game When Eagles meet Lizards, there's plenty of venom but rarely violence at Lisbon's fiercest derby. For the December 2008 issue of FourFourTwo, Sergio Krithinas went along to experience it first hand...
FourFourTwo's 50 Biggest Derbies in the World: 40-31
By Gregor MacGregor last updated
50 biggest derbies Round two of FFT's countdown of football's biggest rivalries includes plenty of riot police, Barcelona (not that one) and the Eternal Derby...
FourFourTwo's 50 Biggest Derbies in the World: 30-21
By Gregor MacGregor last updated
50 biggest derbies The middle point in our selection of the world's fiercest matches...
Why derbies really matter to us – and always will
By Paul Simpson last updated
50 biggest derbies They’re the games we pick out on fixtures day, and keep us engaged throughout entire seasons. But why do we really care that much? Paul Simpson explains…
FourFourTwo's 50 Biggest Derbies in the World, No.2: Barcelona vs Real Madrid
By Gary Parkinson last updated
50 biggest derbies El Clasico is just kept off top spot as the biggest derby in world football...
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