I was looking through the list of Div. Two teams to see if any stand out and i suppose there's Yeovil, Wycombe, Plymouth but, if i'm really honest, all the games are roughly the same the last few years. There's only one fixture i want - Bristol City, always has been THE match for me and until we share the same Division it will never quite be the same. Those two matches we used to enjoy regularly are what football is all about...Passion, atmosphere, nerves. People say from both sides " I don't care about them" well i bloody do and i miss playing them more than anything else. That feeling walking into the ground so desperate for your team to win, looking forward to it for weeks beforehand, the intensity of it all, the constant singing for 30 mins before kick off, knowing even if you're in crap form and your opponents are on fire you can still win it, the buzz!.....God i miss it. Rovers/City, Rangers/Celtic send shivers down my spine and the hairs on my neck stand up. No other games do that for me.
Always great to face them in the league for the reasons you state JTS. However im glad we dont. Its fan trouble that makes say that. I swear one day someone will end up killed and our fans meet. There is always trouble. Both sides as bad as each other who let the majority down. Can you imagine if we were facing each other every season in the league in the last 5 years, the way our hostile fands have been? The FA would enforce empty stadiums each time we meet. Fans will always try and get on the pitch. Some people have way too much hatred.
I always remember Ian St. John and Jimmy Greaves used to have a lunchtime sports programme on a Saturday and St John stated that the animosity between the Bristol clubs supporters was worse than even the Glasgow rivalry between Celtic and Rangers. He didn't know of any derby matches that came close to them in terms of sheer dislike
