Lee Colvin

Belgrade to Buenos Aires - Football rivalries on a very tight budget Lee Colvin

Boca-River, Red Star-Partizan, Lazio-Roma, Celtic-Rangers, England-Scotland, Racing Club-Velez, Hamburg-St. Pauli, Glentoran-Linfield, Feyenoord-Ajax, Ireland-Northern Ireland, Inter-Milan, Genoa-Sampdoria, Real Madrid-Barcelona, Sporting-Benfica, Birmingham-Villa. A journey through some big football rivalries that simply mean more than a game to a lot of people. Think of your local school rivalry as a kid and times it by a million, to get some of the raw passion of these games. Bigotry, pyro, tifo and mayhem accompany most of them. Being struck by baguettes in Madrid, blocks of ice in Buenos Aires and covered in beer in Rotterdam. This is a story of chasing match tickets, hitchhiking, cancelled games and relying on cheap flights and plenty of booze. It's all here an