Morning all. ’Things ain’t what the used to be’ – a line from an old song which I just about remember. Not the original version of course as that was well before my time, as was the first north London Derby. There are plenty of local derbies in football, Reading v Oxford or Swindon is my most local but divisions divide them so seldom do they materialise. There’s Utd v City in Manchester, Everton v Liverpool, Southampton v Bournemouth, all in the top flight of English football. Any fixture between London clubs is considered to be a local derby but none come as big as the one in the north. The rivalry between the two clubs kicked off in the early 1900’s when Arsenal moved...
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