Biggest/Most intense derby in football.

[AnfieldEd]

El Classico is the biggest match but does it classify as a derby I didn't know Barcelona were situated in Madrid or Madrid situated in Barcelona.

So technically it isn't but it is the Spanish derby - and the biggest club game bar the CL final - like Liverpool-man.u is the english derby but its not a derby.

So a bit more clarification on what you are asking please. Are you asking the biggest club game or biggest derby?

If we are talking intense btw River - Boca is IMMENSE!

 

[Cule Angles]

El Clasico always used to be known as "el derbi", though of course geographically it's not a derby under the traditional definition.

 

[AnfieldEd]

Well thus the question

 

[Cule Angles]

I guess the question is regarding the biggest traditional grudge match, if you want a more accurate term than "derby".

 

[maz]

Any intense rivalry can be called a derby, its just that the vast majority are local, and hence people associate a derby with a local rivarly. If all derbies were local, then why the phrase "local derby"? That would be like saying "local local rivalry".

 

[Cule Angles]

Hmm, you have a point, even in England we have the East Anglian derby, the Tyne-Wear derby and the south coast derby. Northampton v Peter**ough is also considered a derby. WE HATE BORO, OH WE HATE BORO.

 

[Fourteen]

El Classico is the biggest match but does it classify as a derby I didn't know Barcelona were situated in Madrid or Madrid situated in Barcelona.

So technically it isn't but it is the Spanish derby - and the biggest club game bar the CL final - like Liverpool-man.u is the english derby but its not a derby.

So a bit more clarification on what you are asking please. Are you asking the biggest club game or biggest derby?

If we are talking intense btw River - Boca is IMMENSE!

You're so pedantic!

If he was asking for the biggest club game, he'd just have the Champions League final on the poll!

Obviously it's a poll about the biggest game due to rivalry. And what Maz said...It doesn't have to be local for it to be a derby.

 

[AnfieldEd]

Me pedantic!

 

[Fourteen]

I'm glad you agree.

P.s. I like this new caveman-esque sound to your posts, it suits you.

 

[Necro Spaaw]

lmfao

 

[JCCR_FCB]

El clasico, of course...

 

[BarcaCelt]

Unfortunately the old firm is not as good as it used to be. But at its peak its a tough derby to beat.

 

[VivaBarca]

Can I just ask who voted for other ? And what derby where they thinking of ?

 

[el tren]

I picked el clasico, but other notable derbies not mentioned are the milan derby (quite intense, isnt it?) and the match between Dortmund and Schalke (most intense in germany), which is pretty much a real derby as both cities are next to each other and both clubs have among the biggest fanbase.

 

[Abaddon]

El Clasico


Club Brugge - Cercle Brugge is a close second.