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That "game" was indeed the spark that ignited the tinderbox ex-Yugoslavia already was at that time. 
The Old-Firm is a different game, it's also about religion, but luckily with less bloodshed. But there are more derbies in the world that divide a city or a nation. Like in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Boca Juniors and River Plate supporters can drink each others blood. And Lazio Roma - AS Roma, can have some pretty insane scenes from outside the stadium... Derbies need to be fun, and have rivalry of course, but no fighting

West Ham and Millwall fans don't get on very well.  Luckily Millwall don't have a very good team, so they don't do this often now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKBPeLfnCSQ

I suspect it will be impossible to ever completely separate politics from sports. It's simply too lucrative for at least authoritarian regimes to use sports as a propaganda tool. In the west, it's different because professional sports is a commercial industry. But during the cold war the Soviet Union and the NHL held the Summit Series and that was, while an event where the best ice hockey had ever been played until then, also a clash of systems, if you will.

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Sports supposedly unite nations and make friends.

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Thing is, big players did not want yugoslavia because it was a really decent socialist country. They found people who were made rich in the process and were willing to start spreading the hate. Fans were manipulated by some leaders who also ended up full of money at the end of it all. And all the countries ended up poorer and in the worst state than before and still not recovered.
Sport also suffered, because than you had 5-6 big clubs and now everyone ended up with 1 derby and a bunch or blah games. 

We have similar rivalry games like this between colleges and things like that.  Most of those are within the same state though, not within the same city.  I think there are some more regional rivalries though on a High School level for sure.  Actually, the city  I grew up in has two large high schools and they are probably each others biggest rival even though they are in the same city and part of the same school district.

Hi @cryptoandcoffee,Violence, violence, has always existed, here in Colombia, the whole cause, the happiness of the winner makes the celebrations end in death, and those who lose, kill others simply by for being dressed the shirt of the opposing team.
Blessings:(

can i presume that you guys have both seen "the Football Factory?"
It addresses this very thing

>Rangers were backed by the Catholics and Celtic the Protestants.

You might want to change this bit around or some Scottish person might kill you, on either side. Rangers were backed by the English and the protestants. Celtic were backed by the Irish and the catholics. The whole fued went back to the clubs origins and is rooted in history and wars between england, scotland and ireland. Some things go beyond the actual sport and just give people a place to voice their other issues.

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