This weekend saw 3 of the worlds most intense football rivalries lock horns, and as ever Sports In Shorts can bring you the best analysis of the rivalries what were mentioned earlier in the sentence!:
River Plate v's Boca Juniors
The Argentinian mega powers went head to head in the Buenos Aires grudge match which averages 5 casualties a year!. As the match was being played after this report went to Internet print we don't know the result but here is a brief summary of what probably happened.
22 yellow cards were handed out with only 5 sendings off this time!?!, a manic Diego Maradona was spotted in the crowd selling Cocaine, irate fans attacked referee, erratic players attacked referee, irate fans and erratic players chased fleeing referee into crowd, game called off after 52 minutes!.
Inter Milan v's AC Milan
The Milanese Derby took place at the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium last night if you're an Inter fan or the San Siro Stadium if you follow AC Milan.
The game finished 2-0 to the Inter veterans who had an average team age of 43. A youthful looking AC team looked inexperienced having dropped the 'wise old heads' of Maldini, Baresi & Costacurta and had to 'make do' with the 'young hopefuls' of Pirlo (32), Favalli (34), Beckham (34), Dida (32), Gattuso (hard to tell cos he's so beardy), Ambrosini (31) and Seedorf (35).
Stevenage v's Kettering Utd
Perhaps the biggest football rivalry of all took place in England with the 'Not quite Midlands, Not quite London' Derby between the 2 Blue Square Premier heavyweights (crowd scene from the Stevenage Jeff Goldblum Arena pictured above). The Steven's outclassed The Kettle's and won 2-0, with the goals coming from Wayne Long and Wayne Long. The win puts Stevenage top of the league and as one fan put it ''Top of the Blue Square Premier!, it don't get much more Rock n Roll than that does it!?!''.
