Arsenal or Tottenham? And other local rivalries.

LGWIO said:
Boooo.
Chester over Wrecsam...
I was waiting for someone to mention this massive grudge match...although not much of a match anymore
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My abiding memory of those games is the (away) Wrexham support setting fire to Union Jacks & England flags at half time … and authorities just basically saying, ‘on you go lads’.
 
Apart from the arse spurs one there’s a fair consensus it seems.

The north London one is the odd one out for me, I genuinely dislike both equally strongly. Even between united and liverpool I can distinguish who I dislike the most, but north London is impossible to rank separately for me.
Basically they are tied equally in 3rd place on my Table Of Dislike!
 
Must be the blue influence that does it, Wednesday over United
Rovers over City
Albion over Wolves
Rangers over Celtic
Everton over Liverpool

After that Hearts over Hibs, Dundee over United
Sunderland v Newcastle and Soton v Portsmouth not fussed either way.

Used to be Villa till the 2020 final, after that I realised that they were the Brummie version of the Rags.

But for Spurs v Arsenal the OP was right, Spurs have ideas above their station, beating us every year is their equivalent of winning the league.
As for the other lot, moved to North London as they were getting no crowds south of the river, cheated their way into the top division at the end of WW1 and have been there ever since. Yet they think they are a class club. Do me a favour!
 
Not local rivals but I'd like to see Wick Academy beat L'pool.
That'd be the Candle Cup Final.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
I don’t like Spurs. But I’d choose them over letter-headed Woolwich. I can’t stand Arsenal.

West Ham and QPR over all other London clubs
Sunderland over Newcastle
Pompey over Southampton
Bristol Rovers over City
Brum over Villa
Everton over Liverpool
Wednesday over United
Derby over Forest
Swansea over Cardiff
I quite like both West Brom and Wolves
I hate United and Liverpool equally

Queens Park over Celtic and Rangers
Hearts over Hibs
Torino over Juve
Hamburg over St Pauli
Nurnburg over Bayern
Shalke over Dortmund
Espanyol over Barça
Rayo Vallecano over Atléti and Madrid
Sevilla over Betis
I like both Real Sociedad and Bilbao and always want them to beat all other Spanish teams.
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Arsenal over spurs for me...cannt stand spurs and never could
Newcastle over Sunderland
Birmingham over Villa
West Ham over all the over London clubs (including Arsenal)
Everton over Liverpool
Hate Liverpool more than Utd

Barca over Madrid every time
Rangers over Celtic
Sheff Wed over Sheff Utd
Forest over Derby (I spent 3 years living in Nottingham and met a lot of really nice people there -even went to a couple of forest games )

Never really thought about the rest
 
Possibly dislike Spurs more, just because Arsenal were the only team stopping United winning the league for a few years and was behind them to win it back then , not to mention they played some great football in those days - plus Bergcamp is still one of my favourite non City p.l players. We also don't have any trouble beating them over the past few years lol.

Saying that Spurs generally harmless in regards to being a rival for trophies
 
As a forces kid I moved around a fair bit so got to see quite few rivalries first hand. Between about 7 and 13 we lived in That London. Pa Bollo was player-manager for the base team and had a few contacts at Spurs and QPR so I got to see around most of the north London clubs. Like black cabs, Pa B refused to go sarf of the river.

With that intro, I’d go Arse over Spurs because I loved Highbury and Spurs broke my 11 year old heart in 81. I was there. Pa B was on chatting terms with then Spuds captain Steve Perryman, who was a genuinely nice guy and sorted out my junior school with a load of kit. He also arranged a pre-season warm-up/community-outreach game with the base team so I got to see my dad get turned inside out by Ozzie Ardiles.

My bro-in-law is a Tarquin season ticket holder and he absolutely fucking hates Spurs, which is right and proper.

Then to Northumberland, so it was all Newcastle. This was around the time of King Kev so the rivalry was a bit one-way. The Geordies took the piss out of the Mackems and the Mackems just got angry. As the only City fan anyone knew, both sets took the piss out of me, so fuck ‘em both.

I’ve lived for time near enough Southampton so get a feel for the Scummer-Skate rivalry. I’ve never had grief at St Mary’s but it’s like someone throws the crazy switch on Hampshire whenever those two meet. Proper, life-threateningly nasty.

I also have rellos in Lincoln and have done the odd Imps game. Lincoln City vs Grimsby or Scunny are supposed to be quite tasty.
 
west didsblue said:
Nope the rivalry is definitely Preston/Blackpool, with Preston/Blackburn and Preston /Burnley at a lower level.
And it's got to be Preston.
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My good Burnley-following mate hates Blackburn with a vengeance. Out of solidarity, I've taken to hating them too (I couldn't actually give a toss about Blackburn Rovers — if anything, they threw a party for us at Ewood Park in May 2000). Like him, therefore, I call them Bastard Rovers. I'm pretty sure he'd say that Burnley's great rivalry is with them.
He's amused by the fact that County have apparently believed for years that they've got a rivalry with Burnley. Poor old County, looking round anxiously for someone who'll notice their hatred.
 
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Bollo said:
I’ve lived for time near enough Southampton so get a feel for the Scummer-Skate rivalry. I’ve never had grief at St Mary’s but it’s like someone throws the crazy switch on Hampshire whenever those two meet. Proper, life-threateningly nasty.
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Sorry, not familiar with the lingo here. Who's who? Presumably one of them's Portsmouth?
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Sorry, not familiar with the lingo here. Who's who? Presumably one of them's Portsmouth?
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Scummer is Southampton Company Union Member - supposedly there was a dockers strike on the Solent and its claimed the SCUMers broke the strike and worked but not much evidence of this.

Saints fans call Pompey fans Skates as they claim Pompey fans make love to the skates (are they fish?
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Sorry, not familiar with the lingo here. Who's who? Presumably one of them's Portsmouth?
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Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Scummer is Southampton Company Union Member - supposedly there was a dockers strike on the Solent and its claimed the SCUMers broke the strike and worked but not much evidence of this.

Saints fans call Pompey fans Skates as they claim Pompey fans make love to the skates (are they fish?
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Thanks MES, beat me to it, although by all accounts the strike breaking story is convenient bollocks. “Skates” is also military slang for sailors because of the fish sex thing.

By all accounts the two sets of fans were on quite friendly terms in the 50s. According to my neighbour, a lifelong Pompey fan, the nastiness started in the 80s when the Portsmouth’s 6:57 Crew were “competing at the top level”. Only a couple of years ago a work colleague had a reverse-auto glass on her car because she’d parked up for an evening in Portsmouth and forgotten to take off the Saints badge from her window.
 
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