Apologies if this has been reported elsewhere, but the back inside page of the Times Monday Football Supplement so creatively called the Game has an interesting article showing the percentage wins of all the major derbies and guess what........... Saints v The lot from down the road is the most one sided with Saints holding a 63.6% - 36.4% wins, the clearest margin in any of the major English Derbies. The rest as follows...
Bristol City.. 58.6% Bristol Rovers 41.4%
Man Utd 58.3% Man City 41.7%
Liverpool 56.2% Everton 43.8%
Arsenal 56.1% Spurs 43.9%
Luton 56.1% Watford 43.9%
Preston 55.9% Blackpool 44.1%
Villa 55.6% Brum City 44.4%
Ipswich 54.3% Norwich 45.7%
Sheff Utd 53.8% Sheff Weds 46.2%
Notts Forest 53.8% Derby 46.2%
Stoke 53.6% Port Vale 46.4%
Swansea 52.5% Cardiff 47.5%
Blackburn 52.0% Burnley 48%
Newcastle 52% Sunderland 48%
WBA 50.9% Wolves 49.1%
Love is the drug...