Those matches you used to wait the whole year for.

How it is more important for us to finish above them rather than win.

How obvious it is for us to hate them.

Rivalry is something which is embedded into the very core of every football fan. You just cannot help hating a team, if you are supporting one. Some of them display beautiful football, while others just get downright messy. From fan clashes to on-field punches, from booing to racial abuse, from banter to murder, the game has seen it all. Here below is a list of the greatest rivalries the footballing world has seen, in no particular order.

P.S- The obvious ones have been omitted from this list( including the El Classico, Madrid derby, Merseyside derby).