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Eddie B 10:14 Mon Jan 25
The 10 biggest rivalries in London football
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According to the Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/picturegalleries/12108433/The-10-biggest-rivalries-in-London-football.html
10. Leyton Orient vs West Ham
Their last competitive meeting may have been in 1987 but relations between these east London neighbours soured considerably during West Ham's successful pursuit of the Olympic Stadium. Leyton Orient's then-chairman Barry Hearn threatened legal action, claiming West Ham's move to Stratford would eat into Orient's already vulnerable fanbase. The case was dropped and a settlement reached in July 2014, but the bad blood persists ahead of West Ham's move this summer.
9. Millwall vs Crystal Palace
8. Chelsea vs QPR
7. Chelsea vs West Ham
The 'District Line derby' had been an occasion to inspire dread rather than delight, given the off-field reputation of both sets of fans in the hooligan era. More recently, it has delivered a spate of sporting sub-plots, mainly due to the cross-pollenation of players. Chelsea's ruthless pillaging of West Ham's famed academy, when they signed John Terry, Joe Cole, Glen Johnson and Frank Lampard left relations distinctly sour - particularly in the case of Lampard, who duly became the pantomime villain of choice for Upton Park regulars.
6. Chelsea vs Millwall
5. Arsenal vs Chelsea
4. Tottenham vs Chelsea
3. Tottenham vs West Ham
One of those curious rivalries where the unbridled hatred pouring forth from the stands is, if anything eclipsed, by the venom that saturates relations between the two boardrooms. Spurs and West Ham have been at each other's throats ever since the former was pipped to the right to occupy the Olympic Stadium, a decision which will cost Spurs hundreds of millions of pounds and a potentially damaging stint in a temporary home. The case sparked claims of industrial espionage, fan protests and an unofficial transfer embargo between the clubs, which cost Emmanuel Adebayor a move to east London. Just think how poisonous things will be when West Ham finally move in.
2. Arsenal vs Tottenham
1. Millwall vs West Ham
If English football - let alone London football - has a more ferocious rivalry then we would like to see it. What this collision lacks in history and footballing grandeur it more than makes up for in hostility - even downright brutality on occasion. There is history here, too, however. The rivalry between these two clubs was founded in the dockyards that pockmarked the eastern shores of the Thames - the Royal docks (which featured many West Ham fans on their staff) to the north and the London and Surrey docks (Millwall) to the south - and has only grown over time. In the intervening years, it has dipped a toe in the grubby waters of London gang culture (the causes of the East End Kray twins and south London's Richardsons were enthusiastically adopted by the hardcore elements from both clubs) and gathered steam during the inglorious heyday of football hooligan culture in the 1970s and 80s. Even in the supposedly sanitised world of 21st-century football, this is still a fixture which represents a throwback: their League Cup tie at Upton Park in 2009 produced some of the worst scenes of violence inside a stadium for over a decade.
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Northern Sold
1:47 Wed Jan 27
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overbuyer... same one's
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overbyyer
1:26 Wed Jan 27
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Were they the ones that jumped one of ours in a pub in Reading about 15 years ago?
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Pub Bigot
12:34 Wed Jan 27
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Northern Sold 12:13 Wed Jan 27
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What twins?
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Northern Sold
12:13 Wed Jan 27
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Didn't the twins over CFC used to support us as well??
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mashed in maryland
9:28 Wed Jan 27
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One of Chelsea's most famous top lads from the 80s (now dead) had a Fulham tattoo. 100% true.
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Hani
9:23 Tue Jan 26
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Chelsea vs Arsenal is bigger rivalry than that list suggests. Chelsea fans don't give a fuck about QPR.
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mallard
9:22 Tue Jan 26
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Arsenal v Spurs ...pfft !
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Son of Anarchy
9:20 Tue Jan 26
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Our rivalry with Millwall dock strike aside was reignited when the fan was pushed in front of the train in the 80's.
My personal rivalries in London have always been Millwall, Arsenal & Chelsea as I knew the most supporters from those teams.
Brief few years of Charlton fans piping up but that's disappeared.
London team I like to beat the most, always has to be Mill then Arsenal followed by Spurs.
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jack flash
9:08 Tue Jan 26
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I would grade Arsenal vs Spurs as the biggest rivals at this moment in time
The reasoning is that they are both "big" clubs playing in North London which makes it a bigger derby than all the others in terms of numbers at their matches
Where Chelsea are the undisputed "big" club in West London (way ahead of Fulham & QPR), Crystal Palace are the "big" club of South London (way ahead of Charlton, Millwall or Wimbledon FC)
We are the undisputed "big" club of East London (way ahead of Orient)
As time goes on the biggest rivalries will become between North/North, South, East & West
Millwall are what they are, a little club which is a minor irritant, like a fly ready to be swatted, a focus of hate for everyone
We will always hate them with a vengeance but they're hardly rivals any more, they're too small for that!
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Mr Anon
7:02 Tue Jan 26
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Swiss. 1:15 Tue Jan 26
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Arsenal v Spurs is not that big. Spurs v Chelsea is bigger and its Crystal Palace v Brighton.
Is Brighton in London now?
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The Hammers
2:41 Tue Jan 26
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Fuck Arsenal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdSAxDyaXkw
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Swiss.
1:15 Tue Jan 26
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Arsenal v Spurs is not that big. Spurs v Chelsea is bigger and its Crystal Palace v Brighton.
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Davenport
1:00 Tue Jan 26
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GEEZERS EVERYWHERE
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Pancho
12:54 Tue Jan 26
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You shit yourself H&P...
You absolutely cacked your pants.
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Brain Damaged
12:36 Tue Jan 26
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Most rivalries are nothing, but logistical.
Our rivalry with Millwall is far more deep rooted than that. I hate Chelsea and Spurs, but that hatred pales into insignificance, compared to what I feel for Millwall.
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The Kronic
12:06 Tue Jan 26
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Crassus 9:52
Bang on. The only downside is that acknowledgement gives Millwall fans a sense of self importance.
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Hammer and Pickle
11:26 Tue Jan 26
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Yes, Panchoise -
He's fronted 50 Millwall at Bank station all on his own in a c&b cap.
And I've shat myself.
You have a good day son.
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Pancho
9:05 Tue Jan 26
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Who's shit!?
Jesus...
Someone's proper followed through in here...
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peroni
8:59 Tue Jan 26
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H&P gobbing off then shitting himself
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Hammer and Pickle
7:51 Tue Jan 26
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I meant AOI there - and no harm by it either.
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Hammer and Pickle
7:45 Tue Jan 26
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'Scuse me AOL.
It's just that if it was 40 West Ham at a tube station and a geezer in a Millwall cap rocks up giving it the big one I think he'd get a fair play - there's the scarfer rule and all that.
Or just a slap for being a div anyway.
But then they were Millwall after all. I hope you'd had a drink and all.
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