Ian Collis - The Derby Game

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Ian Collis: Author of The Derby Game: A History of Local Rivalries, which charts the rise of the football “derby” from medieval Shrovetide contests in the town of Derby to today’s fiery clashes between rivals like Liverpool and Everton.

"Oh, ye Gods, what a riot!" Drawing on eyewitness reports, Ian Collis’s The Derby Game, charts the history of Britain's most notorious football game once played every Shrove Tuesday in the streets and rivers of Derby. Discover the crazy game that once divided Derby’s men, women and children into two warring tribes and lent the city’s name to clashes between local sporting rivals.