Football Rivalries

[Rich]

www.footballfanscensus.com/issueresults/Club_Rivalries_Uncovered_Results.pdf

Found the results to this survey. Makes fairly interesting reading. Noticed that no football league team sees Coventry as their main rival and only Leicester consider us to be one of their top 3 rivals. Don't know whether to be happy or sad about that. As far as Coventry's top three rivals go I agree with Villa and Leicester but would have put Wolves or West Brom in at number 3 ahead of Birmingham as there seems to be a lot more tension when we play Wolves or West Brom to what there is against Brum plus since we got relegated we have always took a big following to Molineux and The Hawthornes and a lot of City fans aint to keen on West Brom because of Lee Hughes.

[Claret & Blue Army]

Covs 1 way rivalry with Villa came out of the fact that each teams natural rival slipped down the leagues whilst both were in the top flight.
Interestingly in the 60s and 70s Coventry had a bigger rivalry with Wolves. West Brom at the time were more with Blues and Villa in a kind of 3 way.
When Wolves played yo yo and slipped right down, Coventry latched on to Leicester who themselves tried to poke their way into the Derby/Nottm Forest rivalry.

[JP]

Celtic and Rangers

[Rich]

covblaze16 said:

Celtic and Rangers

Easily the biggest rivalry in British football.

[Claret & Blue Army]

richblaze said:

covblaze16 said:

Celtic and Rangers

Easily the biggest rivalry in British football.

What more than Boston and Lincoln

[Claret & Blue Army]

richblaze said:

covblaze16 said:

Celtic and Rangers

Easily the biggest rivalry in British football.

What more than Boston and Lincoln

[Rich]

You must think that is a prety big rivalry for you to have posted it twice

[Claret & Blue Army]

richblaze said:

You must think that is a prety big rivalry for you to have posted it twice

Second one should have been Rushden and Northampton

[Rich]

I wonder how many 1 way rivalries we would find if this servey was conducted for British Ice Hockey fans.

Sheffield and Nottingham
Milton Keynes and Peterborough
Fife and Dundee? (or would Edinburgh come into it)
Bracknell and Guildford?

[Claret & Blue Army]

Wasn't Belfast and Ayr one?