0 a sports competition, especially a game of football, between two teams from the same city or area --
Traveling with the team for away matches being a custom since the first years of the club, local derbies being no exception.
Symbolically, the first match after the war was the local derby.
Local derbies tend to be very hectic.
These matches often become local derbies.
Fans' violent activities were not confined to local derbies the hooligans were content to cause trouble at any game, though nearby teams often bore the brunt.
Crowds of one or two thousand were not unknown for local derbies.
It is one of the few local derbies which do not enforce fan segregation, and hence was known as the friendly derby.
Both sides regularly attracted crowds of 24,000, with the local derbies seeing over 7,000 attending.
