Gazzman Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Anyone ever been to any of these? Anyone ever been to any better? http://www.bootroombanter.co.uk/banter/200...91466-25259378/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego_Sideburns Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Never underestimate Shamrock Rovers V Bohemians. Extract frm a Wikipedia site: Bohemians vs Shamrock Rovers Following the demise of Drumcondra in the 1960s, Bohemians became the only major club from the Northside of Dublin, automatically coming into conflict with Southsiders, Shamrock Rovers. Over the decades, the rivalry has been extremely fierce both on and unfortunately off the field, with large scale disturbances breaking out before, during and after fixtures, resulting in an excessive Garda presence at games. While there have been many examples over the years of the importance of the fixture and the rivalry to the supporters of each club, one of the more recent incidents of note is the signing of Tony Grant and James Keddy by Bohs from Rovers, which led to a pig's head being thrown onto the pitch during their first game versus their old club. The incident was one of many to reach the front pages of Ireland's newspapers particularly over the last ten to fifteen years and remained a topic of humour amongst the media for weeks after. In contrast, some of the darker incidents of recent times have been the desecration of the monument commemorating the former home of Shamrock Rovers, Glenmalure Park and two instances of significant crowd trouble at Dalymount Park in 2000 and Richmond Park in 2003, with the latter resulting in the eviction of Rovers from the Inchicore venue. While the attendances at the fixture have followed the same sliding trend as the rest of the league's fixtures over the last thirty years, there has been a significant drop over the last two or three years as a result of a number of factors including a clamp-down on atmosphere and freedom within grounds by the FAI and a huge upsurge in abuse and attacks on supporters by police and stewards. The effects of the switch to a summer schedule on league attendances are disputed amongst supporters but a case can be made in relation to attendances and atmosphere at the fixture since the switch when considering that Rovers vs Bohs games attracted relatively large crowds in the '80s and '90s, including two cup fixtures in the 93/94 season which saw over 10,000 people at each. Two positives for the fixture in recent years have been the number of supporters from teams around the world attending the games and the move by Rovers to Tallaght Stadium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankly Mr Shankly Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 No Barca vs Real either. Maybe it's too obvious but I can't think of other "derbies" where a sliced off pigs head has been chucked at a former player as he took a corner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego_Sideburns Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 No Barca vs Real either. Maybe it's too obvious but I can't think of other "derbies" where a sliced off pigs head has been chucked at a former player as he took a corner. In the case of Shamrock Rovers, with security being very tight and everyone being frisked, the pig's head was smuggled into the ground inside the drum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 No Barca vs Real either. Maybe it's too obvious but I can't think of other "derbies" where a sliced off pigs head has been chucked at a former player as he took a corner. If it takes an hour to fly from one ground to the other, it ain't a derby... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny punkster Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 its not a derby..its "el classico". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 You can always predict some of the games that get listed on these sort of lists- the Buenos Aires one inevitably makes it but essentially they go through a list of countries with decent football leagues and pick out a derby- I'm sure quite a few Italians would argue that the Rome derby isn't the biggest in Italy. PSG- Marseille makes the list but they are further apart than Barca-Real. Do the people that compile these lists visit every country in the world, find out their biggest derby and go watch it, if not how can they say these are the biggest derbies in the world? I've been to the big Malawian derby- MTL v. Bullets and it got a bit tasty- it wasn't a pig's head being thrown on to the pitch it was huge bits of masonary and this is at a standard of football not to disimilar with NW counties but more than 10,000 people turned up- (a BIG crowd for Bohs v. Shamrock apparently). Does Malawian football ever get a mention in these sort of lists- nah, what about Egyptian or Algerian or Nigerian or basically any country in Africa- nah. I'm not saying any deserve to be on the list but they are far more deserving than some mickey mouse game between two teams playing a sport which is that nations 3rd choice domestically where a big crowd is 10,000- heck Hartlepool v. Darlo (a game which is a bit tasty) gets more fans than that in recent memory and that only ever gets mentioned as a 'rivalistic derby' by those who know football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F.O.B. Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 You can always predict some of the games that get listed on these sort of lists- the Buenos Aires one inevitably makes it but essentially they go through a list of countries with decent football leagues and pick out a derby- I'm sure quite a few Italians would argue that the Rome derby isn't the biggest in Italy. PSG- Marseille makes the list but they are further apart than Barca-Real. Do the people that compile these lists visit every country in the world, find out their biggest derby and go watch it, if not how can they say these are the biggest derbies in the world? I've been to the big Malawian derby- MTL v. Bullets and it got a bit tasty- it wasn't a pig's head being thrown on to the pitch it was huge bits of masonary and this is at a standard of football not to disimilar with NW counties but more than 10,000 people turned up- (a BIG crowd for Bohs v. Shamrock apparently). Does Malawian football ever get a mention in these sort of lists- nah, what about Egyptian or Algerian or Nigerian or basically any country in Africa- nah. I'm not saying any deserve to be on the list but they are far more deserving than some mickey mouse game between two teams playing a sport which is that nations 3rd choice domestically where a big crowd is 10,000- heck Hartlepool v. Darlo (a game which is a bit tasty) gets more fans than that in recent memory and that only ever gets mentioned as a 'rivalistic derby' by those who know football. Lineker did a BBC programme a few years back about derbies. The Egypt one was iirc where they flew the Ref in from another country an hour before kick off and out straight after. The losing team (which was the home) went to the others ground and burnt it down that night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Lineker did a BBC programme a few years back about derbies. The Egypt one was iirc where they flew the Ref in from another country an hour before kick off and out straight after. The losing team (which was the home) went to the others ground and burnt it down that night. Exactly pretty tasty affair- the riot at the derby in Malawi started as a result of a bad officiating decision- which was changed twice (so the same incident had three different verdicts) as although the standard of the football was NW counties, the officiating was below OWTB fan's team level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfOAFC Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Do the people that compile these lists visit every country in the world, find out their biggest derby and go watch it, if not how can they say these are the biggest derbies in the world? are you ok pal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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