Ok so this was just going to be a comment about a previous posting but it may as well be a new posting altogether.
Further to the whole foreign football thing, there is a big Lancashire derby this weekend in the FA cup with Burnley and Blackburn facing each other. Traditionally these two clubs have not gotten on well with each other and so the atmosphere is expected to be heated.
I often wonder how people who support clubs that are only 8 miles away from each other, can despise each other with such vitriol, when there are so many other people in the world to hate. Surely it would make sense for such close neighbours to band together and perhaps hate supporters from clubs in say, Bulgaria.
In any case it will no doubt be the fans who provide the atmosphere for this weekend's match, but with the topic of foreign players being talked about these days, how many of the teams' players feel the intensity of a derby game like the fans do? With Burnley being a Championship side anyway and this having a majority of British players anyway, it may not be the best example; but do Arsenal's entirely foreign team care that much about their local derby against Spurs when they come around?
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What's a derby?
Come to that what is sport?
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