Bill Shankly - a former Liverpool manager once famously said - "football is not a matter of life and death - it's more important than that". Says it all really!

― Sir Bobby Robson ⚫️⚪️ “It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.” Rest in peace Legend

And to think American fans sit together in the carpark before the game having a bbq 😂😂

Football is very tribal , hence the animosity. But it's also like a big family. They fight among themselves but join forces when following England.

A lot of this footage is very old - 70s and 80s games. The passion is still there but there’s not so much violence these days as clubs can issue lifetime bans if fans are identified as being hooligans.

Note: "derby" is actually pronounced "darby (daa bee)" ... I know, we should just spell it that way. But it is what it is.

It's pretty tame nowadays, the 70s and 80s were wild.

My favourite moment “why is this guy trying to fight a horse” 😂 that is British football 🤣

Hey its pronounced DAR BE xx

Love how interested this guy is in our culture

One of my best memories was not from a derby match. I was walking along the Birmingham Road end of the West Brom ground with my son. Albion were going through a bad patch (not unusual). Coming the other way was another father with his son. The son was crying his heart out and pulling against his dad. The dad stopped and said to his son 'If you don't behave, I'll take you in there and make you watch them'.

I'm a seventy four year old lady!! Football to me is a way of life!! I just love it. The feeling of supporting your team and following them all over the country is beyond passion. I can't follow my team any more due to ill health, but that feeling of love and pride never leaves me.❤❤❤❤

Ive been to loads of Blues (Birmingham) vs Villa derbies and they are always tense, highly charged and often violent

One that wasn’t on here was the south wales derby with my team Swansea and Cardiff. It’s the only bubble trip left for a reason

Match days in Newcastle are genuinely some of the best days of my life. Not just the noise of our own fans but seeing opposition fans having a good time and enjoying our city too is great. I don't want us to be the craziest, I want us to be the friendliest and a lot of opposition fans will tell you we are a good place to visit although a little far it makes for a good away day for most fans I would say. I have genuine love for my city and my club and I want it to be represented well.

The West Ham - Millwall rivalry is historic from the beginning of the 20th century and started between rival groups of dockers from shipyards on the east end section of the River Thames.

You asked if these games are rare. It depends what league the clubs are in, if they're in the same league (example, Man Utd and Man City are both in the Premiership) then they will play each other twice a year, once at each club's stadium, plus the possibility of playing against each other in other competitions. If they're in different leagues then the Cup competitions are the only opportunity until one of the clubs is promoted/relegated. But there are so many derbies that derby games aren't rare at all.

The essence of a true English football fan - born your team, live your team, die you team no others matter!

As a Villa fan, I went to my first Villa blues game back in 2018 when we won 4-2 and that’s the loudest I think I’ve ever heard Villa Park.

The movie 'Green Street' from 2005, is about soccer violence.Elijah Wood is in it,playing an American who visits his sister in London,and gets caught up in it.

I'm a West Brom fan and when we played Wolves a few months ago, it was the first time in 12 years (with fans in the stadium, last time we played them it was in covid) and it was proper nasty. There's a few videos of the violence on this site. Never seen anything like it before

This list is null and void because it does not include the South Wales Derby: Cardiff v. Swansea. And yes, both Welsh teams but playing in the English football league, and it is much more vehement and passionate than at least half the ones listed here.

Im from Oxford and im so glad our derby with swindon is on here. Honestly it is one of the most violent in the UK and most passionate. We are both just fairly small clubs with swindon being league 2 and Oxford hopefully being in the championship next season as of this Saturday

Horse Punch guy is still laughed about in Newcastle today.

little bit histroy of the tyne-wear derby, it goes back as far as the english civil war in the 17th century where both areas fought against each other for king and parliament.

In the U.K. Derby is pronounced DAR BEE ( with an A) and this includes the City of Derby and the Derby horse race. Most of these clips are from the 1970/80 and 90’s when the hooliganism was much worse than now. The intense rivalry is still there but more low key these days.

Stupid thing is, Saturday they’ll be kicking ten shades of poop out of each other, then Monday they’ll be back at work together, laughing and joking about it, great friends.

The ‘Old Firm’ derby in Scotland (Celtic and Rangers) has to be the most vicious. For several years in a row between the 90’s and 2000’s at least 1 fan died every time they met. Not at the game but in the aftermath or prior.

If you are coming over for the summer, you may not catch a match until late summer. Football is s winter game and starts around the first or second week of August.

There are even rivalries within the family, where members of the same family support opposing teams!

Leeds vs Man United is underrated, probably a bit far to be considered a derby, but certainly a heated rivalry. The most policed game in Premier League history last year. Over 800 police for one game.

Now imagine if Britain didn't have strict gun laws 😅

Wigan Athletic Vs Bolton should be in this list. It's bigger than a few mentioned here.

The Epsom derby is the biggest, the only one where the use whips.

I'm a Portsmouth fan and derby day is real. The atmosphere and tension so thick in the air you could cut it with a knife. My Dad grew up in Pompey and said they had beef back when he was young. Portsmouth has a Naval port and Southampton has a Commercial port and they are close to each other the rivalry is old and deeply rooted.

I have scene this in Southampton a few years back, with Manchester United visiting Southampton, there was a huge police presence even with horses around 1 pub filled with United fans who were singing and chanting and that was in Southampton City Centre, I quickly made it out of there, I didn't stick around.

We dont play football in the summer

Wednesday vs United is always very tense in Sheffield

My grandmas house is right next to the Millwall stadium and she often tells me stories of people coming from the match and running through the houses in the area, I also remember her telling me about a horse running through someone's house on the street.

Football is more than a game, its family for some and a love of a home town. Some of these rivalries are hundreds of years old. Like in the US you have the North South divide or the East West coast. In the UK it town on town and sometimes a divide in a town or city depending on the size. But it always comes down to Football even those who don't like football.

As a port vale fan, I'm happy were on the notable derbys

Hi just watched the football rivalry vid really good but one of the worst rivalry in Britain is the south Wales derby between Swansea and Cardiff the first ever clubs in Britain to be banned from each others grounds don't know why it's not on there cheers

I support Royston Vasey, we play Barstoneworth United next Saturday at home. It's critical that we win so the team will be having meat pies and two pints of bitter each before the match to build up their strength.

im a sunderland fan been to a number of newcastle sunderland matches they were pretty wild in the 80s

None bigger than the Tyne Wear derby

Im Not from the UK and I don't have a UK team I support, but I can tell you that Millwall (was a part of the video) were considered the maddest and most violent for decades. There is much to find about them on yt for you to watch and react on.

The next premiership football season starts August 17th this year, the lower leagues a week earlier. If you're visiting in July, teams will be playing pre-season friendly matches you can go to. Also some of the top Premiership teams do a pre-season tour of the US. Check out their websites you may find a game near you.

The football season runs from August to May (this season ends May 19th). The FA cup final at Wembley stadium is 25th May, which is in London. Summer is usually international tournaments. This year is the European international tournament UEFA EUROs 2024, which starts 15th June and is being held in Germany. After 25th May, you won't see any football in England until the 2024-25 season starts.

I'm BLUES (Birmingham City) fan and have seen some bad stuff when we play the vile for nearly 50 years now. You have to be smart - no colours and keep your mouth shut outside the ground. So I have never had to fight someone.

A lot of these derbies happen very rarely now so it makes it more intense when the two teams play each other. I was at the West Ham v Millwall league cup game and it was kicking off round East London and beyond from about 4 o’clock until nearly midnight. I have been to three old firm games and as someone commented on here most of the trouble there happens well away from the ground after the game in the pubs and town centres around Glasgow.

I worked with a Southampton fan, and if you said Portsmouth he spat on the ground.

Cardiff v swansea derby should defo be up there. Cardiff and proud 💙 take a look at the european football derbies theyre special too mate, not forgetting the south american ones also!

I live in Blackpool we have Fleetwood as a rival aswell as Preston seeing the fights is crazy

If you come in 'the summer' check there are matches. Usually national tournaments before season starts in augustish

I'm 61 yrs old, supported Liverpool for decades, got leathered by a gang of Everton supporters whilst waiting for a bus when I was a teen. Football isn't like that these days thankfully, there's still banter but violence is rare.

you cant pick a team it picks you

It's funny that you chose to make the video today. Today is the day of the biggest derby in Britain, namely the Celtic/Rangers (known as 'The Old Firm') game. Not only rivals in Glasgow they also have cultural and religious differences. Games between these two have been know to cause riots... in Belfast! They usually meet four times a year though so it's not a rare occasion.

Twice a season every season and I was a football hooligan back in my day and been on both sides of the bearings but loved every minute of it yanited

When in the summer are you coming here? Football season is over soon. Euros is on though so there will be a lot of life around the place, lots of pubs will be full and people chanting. Good time to come here if you’re here for it. Season starts up again on the 17th of august.

I’m a Wolves fan and the stupid thing about the derby of Wolves and West Brom is, match day they want to kill each other and then come the next working day, we’re all mates again, just with the usual football banter and who’s ever won has the bragging rights.

The rivalry between Newcastle and Sunderland goes back to the English Civil War. It's much more than just a rivalry between two football clubs in the same region. Howay the lads!

The "what do we think of Tottenham" fellow is Jack Wilshere and he was shouting that through the PA on the open bus parade celebrating Arsenal winning the FA Cup. At the time it was being broadcast live on the BBC lunchtime news. Jack got in trouble with the FA over that one, he's managing our under 18s team now, and doubling up us a club ambassador. 😂

If you wanna go to a game in summer you'll have to wait til August when the season starts

It doesn't mention Scottish football, biggest derby of all, Celtic v Rangers.

It's actually not that bad these days. Millwall's team had a terrible reputation for fight starting. But the everyday game of footy is nowhere near as portrayed in the vids.

A lot of the bigger Premier League derbies will happen twice a season home and away. But when one or both clubs are in the lower leagues it can be a rare event limited to cup draws or the occasional season in the same division. The last time my club (Southampton) played our rivals (Portsmouth) was 2019. We won 4-0 away

I subbed when you had less than 1000 subs ...so proud that you know us the UK so well NOW !,!

Football is for the fans. Watch Take Us Home a series about my team Leeds United. It shows how engrained a community is in their team. Leeds fans had a reputation for violence and the team in the 70s were widely known as dirty Leeds. We are turning that round although we're still the team everyone loves to hate. The waiting list for season tickets is above 20 thousand people. We're owned by the 49ers with Russell Crowe and Will Ferrell being in that group too. If you're in Yorkshire during the season I'll take you to a match.....well done on your videos.

I like the video but you got your order wrong everyone in England knows there is nothing like Sunderland v Newcastle nothing comes close

Was at the Swindon/Oxford clash. 🤬😳 It's a lot calmer these days. Beer and football do not mix. Hundreds of years of rivalry when you live next to the ground. Sometimes, you feel like you are surrounded😮

To add on to something you mention e about these derbies not happening often, quite a few of the most famous ones like the Old Firm Derby (Glasgow Rangers v Celtic), the Potteries Derby (Stoke City vs Port Vale) and the Dockers Derby (Millwall v West Ham) quite rarely happen as the teams are in different leagues of the EFL. For example, Millwall are the in Championship (normally) and West Ham are in the Premier League. Which I think makes the derbies more intense when they do happen. If you’re interested, the movie Green Street Hooligans delves deeper into the rivalry between Millwall and West Ham thats for sure worth a watch :)

Newcastle VS Sunderland has to be the biggest one. as a Newcastle fan, the atmosphere throughout the whole day is just mad

Derby matches were always eagerly looked forward to and dreaded in equal amounts, very tense affairs, often the hype outshone the actual football and many ending in 0-0- draws with either side scared to make an error. Locally it was all about going to work the next day and having bragging rights, taking the piss out of your workmates if you'd won and they'd lost

I always go to the south wales derby and the atmosphere is crazy

One thing to note not many other commenters mention is the fact that many of these rivalries exisited long before proffessional football. For instance Liverpool and Manchester, over the lost work from Manchesters canal that they built. Or Millwall & West Ham, which was born out of competing for Dock work.

If you come over in the summer be sure there’s a game on. Season finishes soon. Mid August it starts again.

The football season is just about finished in city, county match around September when it starts again

I'm a Birmingham City fan (number 1 rivalry in the video, against Aston Villa) and was at a couple of the games in this compilation as a kid/teenager. my dad used to take turns taking my brother and me to the home games and we'd always have mad competitions for who got to go to the derby game. Even more than wanting to see the team play Man U or Arsenal or Liverpool, the one you wanted a ticket for was the derby game because it was always so much fun. Birmingham city's 'hooligan group' (almost every club has its own official group like this, of varying sizes, even holding reunions and things years later in many cases for the older guys) are called the Zulus. My dad plays golf with quite a few of the older guys now, many of whom are in their 70's, and had quite successful careers and seem quite sensible, and then you'll be out for a drink with them and suddenly it's like 'ah this is johno, he once pulled a urinal off a wall and threw it through a pub window. Now he runs a printing business'. Mad. Even the older guys, you know not to mess with.

I'm a Bradford city fan, and in west Yorkshire, it's a bit of a 3 way thing with Leeds and Huddersfield. That chip van you see happened at Odsal, the year after the fire at Valley parade which killed 56 fans. The rivalry between us and Leeds intensified after they did that. I actually work at Sheffield Wednesday, and next season the steel City derby is on. That's gonna be electric. Maybe you should try to get to one of the games. You'll have a blast.

just to clarify at the end it said "other derby's" and at the bottom said Palace v Brighton, it is not a derby but a rivalry neither us or Brighton fans claim its a derby only people on the outside.

There is nothing better than a Derby 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 Was missing my clubs for a long time and why I started traveling round Europe to experience different ones 😀 Eventually my mates convinced me to start documenting them on here

A real/true derby are 2 teams from the same city, so most of these don't even count as proper derbies. The Sheffield derby restarts next season and believe me the weeks build up and derby day is horrendous the rivalry and hatred are off the scale. WAWAW

the forest vs derby one is real my first ever match at the city ground (nottingham forest) was vs derby when i was 12, i remember them ripping the seats out the stands and throwing them at each other

Being from one of these towns, I can truely say it's a very intense feeling on match day

Been to many Tyne / wear derbies, ( they don't happen much these days 😁😁) aways a little feisty but no better day in the calendar. Strange watching these clips and remembering the games / days

english football is definitely the best. so many rivalries. glory glory man united ❤

Some derbies are played more often than others....Spurs vs Arsenal, Man U vs Liverpool, Liverpool vs Everton are basically minimum 2 games a season barring something like Covid or a fluke relegation for one or other of them. None of those teams have been relegated since 1977 when Spurs went down for a single season. - Wolves and West Brom have played each other 163 times since 1886 with Wolves winning 54, Albion winning 65 and 44 draws. Blues and Villa have played each other 128 times since 1887 with 57 wins for Villa, 38 wins for Blues and 33 draws. - Meanwhile Millwall and West Ham haven't played a League Match against each other since 2012 and only 60 first class games {not counting friendlies or Underage/B-Team matches} total since their first in 1899. Bradford and Leeds haven't played each other in the League since 2001, in a Cup match since 2014 and have played each other only 25 times since their first meeting in 1922.

Exeter v Plymouth is probably a separate video for that rivalry

Hello Joel. When I go outside Yorkshire, with my name, someone usually says "Leeds United!" I am however a Bradfordian and Rugby League fan. That fire in the video was at Odsal, the rugby ground. City were playing there after the fire you saw previously at Valley Parade. Some Leeds fans had set a chip van on fire and were taunting the City supporters with "Fire!" I know that is not representative of all supporters, but for me it is always the thing that comes to mind, because of where it was. For a lovely example of a Leeds fan, see Lucy on Benidorm Stuff channel. You really should go there to see British folk on holiday. If there are no football games, it being summer when you visit, come to a Rugby League game.

June and July is what you would call the ‘off season’, just in case you are planning a trip.

6:33 I was at that game. Leeds fans blamed for setting the chip van on fire but it wasn't the fans at all. There was something wrong with their gas burners, the chips weren't being cooked. Loads of fans complained about the cold chips but the owner told them to sod off. Next thing it was up in flames. TV at the time said Leeds fans had brought gas bottles to the game to set it alight. What? They snuck a few gas bottles in and nobody saw them? Ridiculous. There was a fault and the van set on fire. The police made us go onto the pitch to get away from the fire. Not a pitch invasion as the TV said at the time. Then the fans running at the home fans. Nope, the police charged at us with horses. Trust me, you see a line of police horses charging at you, you run in the opposite direction. What a day that was. Could tell more stories about that day but this will suffice.

The most hilarious part of the video is there's no mention of cardiff and swansea... the only 'bubble trip' in the efl.

season is over in a few weeks, and then International European Championships tournament starts in June.

Look at you nearly got 100k followers, well done mate

The biggest Derby in Britain is in fact in Glasgow, between Rangers and Celtic, It is heightened because Celtic are seen as the Catholic and Irish team were as Rangers are the British (Scottish ) and Protestant team. The two are almost always the top two teams in the league with them finishing 1st and 2nd.

Just the boys staying match fit for round 3.

i respect your decision to take your time choosing a team to support. must be strange having to choose at your age as, here in the uk, we choose at a young age, influenced by friends or family. im interested who you choose. love the music in this vid. but tbh... requium for a dream would make a baked beans advert seem epic!

depends which part of the league your in, but if both teams are in the same league, then it takes place twice in the season once at home and once away

Back in these times West Ham was the most feared firm but nowadays no one is really cause police have locked down on football violence so can’t really judge but West Ham millwall rivalry is the best lol

The Derbys between rival teams in the premiere league are held every year. There’s the first leg and second leg and each leg is played at one of the stadiums of the two teams so each team gets to play at home once and have the home advantage. It is not a rare occasion. I used to live about a mile or two from the Main Road stadium where Manchester City used to be, before they moved to Etihad and I remember standing outside my house hearing the roar of the crowd all the way from the stadium, it was brilliant!!