El Clasico and Liverpool vs Man Utd, ha this is best rivalry in the world...

As you know, I'm a massive Liverpool fan and yesterday I saw them lose to are great rivals Man Utd. There is nothing worse for a Liverpool fan, I think most of us would rather drink cyanide then watch the red devils beat us. It's is the greatest rivalry in England, everyone has a side and for those on the losing side the silence is absolute. Though Liverpool aren't what we once were the match is still huge. Yesterday's game had added importance as it united (hahaha) Luis Suarez and Patrice Evra, protagonists in a racism scandal almost as big as the one engulfing John Terry at the moment. I'm not defending what Suarez did, it was horrible and he deserved his ban. Evra had the last laugh as Liverpool played very poorly and lost 2-1 (Suarez scoring our goal) and the scenes of jubilation was like they'd already won there 20th title, it was mainly the fact they'd beaten us and also the with the added importance of the racism scandal. I'm still annoyed Liverpool won though.

Man Utd 1-4 Liverpool, oh those where the days...

El clasico in Spain is the biggest derby in the world, not in terms of intensity but in terms of media attention. These teams have the best players, the most money and a rivalry that stretches back beyond the fact they are the biggest teams in Spain. Catalonia vs Central Spain, a huge political rivalry divides the two teams and they don't try and hide it. The games are always intense and almost always end in drama, emotion and the major talking point at schools across the world the next day. However, despite the money and media attention these rivalries get, they certainly aren't the greatest derbies in world football. To find this we must head to an ancient city, filled with history, mystery and giant pointy pieces of stone. The place where I live...

Now, now play nicely children...

Cairo is a huge conurbation, as soon as you arrive at the airport and pay $15 for an entry visa, collect your baggage in the modern terminal 3 of Cairo International Airport (run by american intelligence) you are assaulted by the heat. From Giza to Gardinia, from Doki to Downtown, from Mohandasine to Maadi and all the way out to the new developments in 6th of October City, one thing connects the diverse group of people who inhabit this great country. Football. More specifically a single game that both connects and divides an entire nation and most of Africa and the middle east. Not only is it the biggest game in Egypt, this game divides an entire continent and most of a sub-continent. What game is this I here you ask? Al-Ahly vs Al-Zamalek. This is game is more than a game, it is Cairo, everywhere you go you'll find a reference to it. Taxis has bumper stickers of either club, flags hang from windows and walls, workers wear fake shirts in the street. A standered greeting in the city is "Ahly or Zamalek" (or whatever the Arabic equivalent is). Egyptians lives revolves around three things, there religion, there family and Ahly or Zamalek.

Rough tackles, more common than grains of sands in the Sahara...

The matches are a huge event, the entire country stops, it's like a national holiday for the Egyptian people. The stands are filled with the two ultras groups who see the clubs as the most important of the three things they hold most deer. Ahlawy and White Knights, set of more fireworks then you'd find in all of England on the 5th of November. The games have to be refereed by foreign refs. This transcends everything, nothing matters more to anyone than that there side wins, this is the greatest derby in the world. There is more passion, history, violence, intensity etc. than any other derby in world football. Simple as.

And this is when there 2-0 down...