Talk:Football rivalries in France

Small mistakes
Good job, but some little mistakes. Vichy didn't invent the "One town, one club" politic! That's an old story... The three pro clubs based at Bordeaux, for exemple, were forced to merge by the French FA in the 30's. After WWI and WWII, some clubs merged because they were broke. In the "classico" (I hate this name, only use by some stupid TV guys since 5 years...), you said that "most purists...". Who are those "purists"? Never heard about them... Le "big game" (call it classico if that can please you) is "the" game of the year. You have different clubs involved in those games since the begining of football in France. The first "big game" was Standard Vs. Club Français at the end of the XIXth century. From 1990, the "big game" is, with no doubt, PSG Vs. OM. In the eighties, it was Bordeaux Vs. Marseille, and from the mid-sixties to the begining of the eighties, it was St-Etienne Vs. Nantes. And so on (Reims Vs Racing (mid-50's to mid-60's), Lille Vs Racing (mid-1940's to mid-50's), Racing Vs. Marseille (30's) and Red Star Vs Olympique de Paris (1920's)). At the beginig of the XXth century, before WWI, there were not one "big game" : this was the golden age of local derbies all over France. At that time, every cities had not just one "big" club. At Marseille, for exemple, Olympique de Marseille and Stade Helvétique de Marseille. No special term to name the "classico", as you call them. For exemple, when you said today "PSG-OM", everything is said. No need to had a word... It was the same before. I'm sorry not to be able to correct directly the article, but my English is to poor to do that. Clio64B 07:26, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion
I have removed the Proposed deletion from this page as I believe that being unreferenced is not a valid reason for deletion. Much of the content is not covered by the List of Major football rivalries, that a sourced list on this subject with clear incusion criteria would be consistent with WP:LIST, that proding a number of non-British lists and leaving Local derbies in the United Kingdom looks like anglo-centrism and that the deletion of a number of established articles such as these should be taken to AfD at a minimum. King of the North   East  01:39, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The reason I haven't PRODded the UK article – and I did consider doing so – is because it doesn't have any of the problems that the others do; namely, it is organised, discriminate and referenced, whereas the ones I have PRODded are. GiantSnowman 01:39, 11 April 2009 (UTC)