What makes a derby a derby, is a great love for your club and hatred for the greatest rival, are the two most important reasons why the derby is special. In order for a football derby to be big, it is necessary to have an equal reputation for two clubs, a similar number of fans, an uncertain race in all competitions and naturally different colors of the club.
Football is itself a pure emotion, but there is a period when what we feel about the twenty-two men chasing the ball, can not be measured or compared with anything.
The mentioned period can often vary with intensity and length, from several days to several weeks but it is still easy to determine that the epicenter of "madness" stays somewhere between 90 and 120 minutes, excluding a potential penal series.Then everything that really matters and essentially becomes absolutely irrelevant, and your thoughts and all the types of energy you give are focused on just one thing. That your beloved team records victory over the biggest, eternal rival.
What is morally, becomes immoral - then the way and means are not chosen in order to reach the goal. Then it is only important that your team, after the last referee whistle, raise your arms above your head, while you are thrown in the trance and rejoice with the people you have seen for the first time in your life. The game that has the power to divide cities into half, the eternal rivalries that turn the brothers and great friends into the hot rivals, but at the same time they provide us with unique experience and luck, as well as valuable, unforgettable memories.
We only have few of these kind of games in the world, so I bring you next two for this third edition of Greatest Football Derbies in the World series :
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Liverpool - Manchester United
When it comes to England, we have a lot of derbies, and one that stands out as the biggest one between Liverpool and Manchester United. Although they have their city rivals Liverpool - Everton and Man United - Man City, however, the duel of two clubs from different cities takes the greatest public attention.
There is a lot of rivalries among the fans of these two clubs, both in the trophy race and when it comes to mutual duels. Rivalry has been created over the past few years in the era of Alex Ferguson. After the great success of Liverpool and the dominance by 1990 when they took the last title of the English Premier League, it was their 18th title. Then Manchester United, who only had 7 titles, with Alex Ferguson managed not only to arrive but also to overtake major competitors and become the most challenging England club (when it comes to home championship), United has so far won 20 titles. As for the European success, Liverpool won five trophies of the Champions League and 3 trophies of the Europa League, while United have 3 trophies of the Champions League and one trophy of the League of Europe.
As for the mutual duels, Manchester United is better with 79 wins, it was 54 times draw, Liverpool have 65 wins over their big rival.
Fenerbahce - Galatasaray
Derby of the two largest clubs in Turkey located in the same city, Istanbul, on different sides of Bosphorus and on different continents. Clubs that have the support of the huge number of fans in the city, clubs that were created in 1907 (Fenerbahce) and 1905 (Galatasaray), a rivalry that lasts more than a century.
The first major tensions between these two clubs were made in 1934. The friendly match that was supposed to be, has gone in the wrong direction. Frequent fauls and rough tackles led to frequent interruptions of match, and the same was at the stands. The match ended with a general fight in the field of players and fans, and so began a great rivalry between the two clubs. Hooliganism in Turkey has continued to this day, so frequent incidents have become normal for such matches.
Galatasaray, won 20 titles of the Turkish Superleague and 17 times won the Turkish Cup, while Fenerbahce won 19 times the league and 6 times the Cup of Turkey. In total, they played 386 matches, out of which Fenerbahce was better at 147 games, Galatasaray won 123 matches, 116 ended with a draw.
This is the third article of Greatest Football Derbies in the World series. I'll bring you more of extreme worlds rivalries in upcoming articles. Hope that, this was interesting for you. Thanks for reading.
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