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!

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.

― 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

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

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

Hey its pronounced DAR BE xx

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.❤❤❤❤

Love how interested this guy is in our culture

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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'.

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.

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 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.

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.

Genuinely laughed out loud at the "why's he trying to fight a horse?" comment

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

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.

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.

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.

Them clips are off years ago, it’s not quiet as violent these days but fans still hate each other on match day and week or so leading upto a derby, but the best derby in England is Tyne wear derby ( Sunderland Newcastle)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

We dont play football in the summer

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

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 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.

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.

I've been a Liverpool fan since a very young age (thanks to my dad). I am so happy my dad raised me to be a red. I couldn't imagine supporting any other club, I genuinely don't think any club comes close. There's something about scousers (people from Liverpool) that make this club special. Live and breathe the game.

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

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

It’s amazing to my team in here (Sunderland⚪️🔴⚪️🔴)

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.

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.

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.

Wednesday vs United is always very tense in Sheffield

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

you cant pick a team it picks you

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

Hello mate I’m a Chelsea supporter from London - this video shows exactly how it is in England and how we feel about our football football

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

None bigger than the Tyne Wear derby

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.

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

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'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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

"My god what am i watching? Why is this guy trying to fight a horse?" Has to be the best thing ive heard on youtube in years....

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

Newcastle Sunderland is by far the best I’ve been to it a couple of times. 👌 horses get punched 😅🤣

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.

Hi Southampton v Portsmouth is a big one. The two city's are only about 20 miles apart and we hate each other. I live next door to a Pompey fan and the atmosphere is hostile LOL Up the Saints.

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

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

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!

It used to be a lot worse in the 70s and 80s

Now you know why we don't have guns

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😮

Been to many Manchester derbies as a Red and back in the 70's and 80's they were great 'fun' !! Running battles and skirmishes all over the place, and us Reds nearly always out numbered the blues!! We were 19, 20+ years old and didn't have a care in the world, we lived for the match on a Saturday !!

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

Man Utd'd derby team is Man City Liverpool's derby team is Everton. Nearly all your videos are decades old. This is not a true reflection of the English game today. Your video is a pure misrepresentation of English football fans.

Got season tickets at the Emirates so been many times. Defo a good atmosphere in the NLD. To be honest doesn't matter what derby game you go to, all have a different energy to them.

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

A good number of these clips are massively out of date. Football went through an awful stage where fans just fought before and after games. Thankfully those days are way behind us now. I was a teenager when that sort of thing was going on, I just retired from work!! Please do not be persuaded by what you saw on the films there, i'm not pretending it didn't happen, it's just way out of date and really is extremely rare now.

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

I’ve been too a few of them Oxford v Swindon games. It’s exactly how this video showed it. Old Bill everywhere. The maddest thing is most of these videos were filmed about half 11 in the morning. Most of these Derbies are played at lunchtime, trying to avoid people having a few to many beers. This obviously never works.

Be aware if you're over here in the summer the football season runs from late August to the end of May, so hitting a derby match might be difficult.

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