When drawing up a list of the world football’s most hotly contested derby encounters, the same games inevitably crop up time and again. Boca Juniors v River Plate, Partizan v Red Star, Fenerbahçe v Galatasaray and Celtic v Rangers are always among the usual suspects while a list of exclusively Italian ones would undoubtedly offer up the cross City rivalries of Rome, Genoa and Milan as well as an endless raft of squabbling Tuscans. Often forgotten when compiling such top ten compilations is the ‘Derby di Sicilia’ between Palermo and Catania, a meeting of two clubs which is as intense, fervent and passionate as anything offered up by those other local clashes.

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