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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...
Nationalism, desertion and devotion: Why Al-Ahly vs Zamalek is more than a game
By Alex Olliver last updated
More Than A Game In the land of Pharaohs, a ritual as immense as the pyramids and mysterious as the Sphinx: the Al Ahly vs Zamalek derby. Alex Olliver reported for the April 2003 FourFourTwo magazine...
Curtis Davies: “It was hard to be accepted by Birmingham City fans after leaving Aston Villa”
By Paul Wilkes last updated
More Than A Game The Hull City defender tells Paul Wilkes about playing on either side of the fiery rivalry, a clash that will again be on the football calendar in the Championship next season...
FourFourTwo's 50 Biggest Derbies in the World, No.9: Borussia Dortmund vs Schalke
By Chris Flanagan last updated
50 biggest derbies The Ruhr derby between the Miners and the Black and Yellows comes in at no.9...
FourFourTwo's 50 Biggest Derbies in the World: 20-11
By Gregor MacGregor last updated
50 biggest derbies A London derby, De Klassieker and the Derby della Madonnina all feature in our penultimate list of the greatest club rivalries...
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...
Ugly tear-ups, classic one-upmanship and plastic phalluses: why Dortmund vs Schalke is Germany's big one
By Uli Hesse last updated
More Than A Game The two sides despise one another, yet revel in each other's success when Ruhr pride is at stake. Makes no sense? Read on as Uli Hesse charts the rise of the Revierderby for the July 2006 FourFourTwo magazine...
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...
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