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Conspiracies, class divides and all-night parties: Why Real Betis vs Sevilla is Spain's hottest derby
By Andy Mitten last updated
More Than A Game For the March 2002 issue of FourFourTwo, Andy Mitten visited Andalucia to gauge the temperature of what is regarded as the hottest rivalry in Spanish football...
FourFourTwo's 50 Biggest Derbies in the World, No.8: Gremio vs Internacional
By Gary Parkinson last updated
50 biggest derbies Nothing else matters in the Southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, where being neutral is impossible...
Football as religion: Why Celtic vs Rangers is more than a game
By Andy Dougan last updated
More Than A Game For richer for poorer, for better or for worse, Rangers and Celtic are locked into a century-old marriage made in hell. But things might be looking up, reported Andy Dougan for the December 2001 FourFourTwo magazine
Bad times in the Steel City: why Sheffield United vs Sheffield Wednesday is more than a game
By Neil Billingham last updated
More Than A Game In late 2011, the Blades met the Owls in the third tier for only the third time in the 121 years of the Sheffield derby. FourFourTwo's Neil Billingham was there to watch...
Power, corruption & lies in Bucharest: Why Steaua vs Dinamo is more than a game
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More Than A Game In November 2002, FourFourTwo sent Jonathan Wilson to assess Dinamo and Steaua Bucharest: two Romanian giants determined to destroy each other
Uncivil war: Why Partizan Belgrade vs Red Star is more than a game
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More Than A Game Partizan Belgrade fans start wars. Red Star supporters are the type to give it some. For the March 2003 issue of FourFourTwo, Jonathan Wilson reported from the derby that changed the world...
History, politics and death: How Lazio-Roma became Italy's fiercest rivalry
By Andy Mitten last updated
More Than A Game For the April 2009 FourFourTwo magazine, Andy Mitten visited the peninsula’s capital to discover a long-running climate of animosity and hatred…
Anchovies, turncoats and lighters: Why Olympiakos vs Panathinaikos is more than a game
By Ben Clark last updated
More Than A Game Athens: the cradle of democracy but also of a class war that rumbles to this day. From FourFourTwo magazine, December 2005
More Than A Game: Blackburn vs Burnley
By Andy Mitten last updated
More Than A Game Andy Mitten gets in amongst one of the North West's fiercest derbies...
Shah vs Ayatollah and queues at 5.30am: Why Esteghlal vs Persepolis is more than a game
By Ben Lerwill last updated
More Than A Game A country caught in the shadow of political unrest, football is Iran's escape. For the July 2009 issue of FourFourTwo, Ben Lerwill attended their biggest football derby - including "only" 95,000 spectators, and a lot of armed police...
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