As always, this fixture is eagerly anticipated the World over. A Milan derby is almost a World derby.

Some of the greatest players to have ever graced the game have played in this fixture on both sides.
Nerazzuri and Rossoneri always play some of the most exciting games in Italian football.

A 6-5 in 1949 lives long in the memory as an example of how exciting this fixture can be.

This game late in the season carried a lot of significance, as they traditionally do, as Milan was chasing the arch-rival Juventus for the league title.

The teams included some fantastic players Wesley Sneijder, Javier Zanetti, and Maicon to name a few for Inter.

AC included the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alessandro Nesta and Mark Van Bommel.

Inter would open the scoring early on with Diego Milito tapping in after the AC defence completely shut down.

The crowd went berserk, after years of Inter dominance just to catch up with their rival’s title tally it would be a shame to be behind once again as AC were looking for back-to-back titles.
Milan would get back into the game, handed a lifeline by the referee who pointed to the spot kick, Future Queens Park Rangers goalkeeper Julio Cesar bringing down former Portsmouth striker Kevin-Prince Boateng in the box after he had touched the ball.

Apoplectic Cesar tried his best to distract and delay Ibrahimovic but the imperial Swede tucked it away nicely just before halftime.

Ibra would double his tally breaking free from his marker and neatly chipping away the second just after halftime.

Milan’s 2-1 up galvanised the Inter players, with their perceived injustices against them the main motivator.
It was Inter’s turn to get a penalty Milito was brought down by Abate in the box in a haze of smoke from the flares, another tradition in the Milan Derby.

Milito obliges smashing in the spot kick. Oh, but the penalties don’t end there.

Nesta’s hand raised high the ball headed on blocked by the left tricep of the legendary Italian, Inter have the chance to take the lead again.

Diego Milito completed his hat-trick with a combined yardage of 29 yards.
One last chance to seal the deal Maicon scored one of the goals of the Derby running towards the box the Brazilian decided to add a bit of magic and belted his ball into the back of the net.

Inter prevented AC Milan from winning the league again.

West Ham’s recent record against City is expectedly not as good as it used to be.

Whilst both teams have been pretty even throughout their history City has obviously taken off in the past decade.
This game was anything but a City walkover.

23 years ago, as the first year of the new millennium was coming to a close a struggling Manchester City walked into Upton Park and got smacked by a youthful Hammers team in 45 minutes of Freddie Kanoute magic.

Despite not being on the score sheet the Malian tore City to shreds in the second half setting up one and being in the build-up for the other three.

City did take the lead in the first half Spencer Prior getting a rare goal having strayed up front from defence.

But the Freddie Kanoute show started. First, he set up a pass that was tapped on for Steve Lomas to score, with Frank Lampard getting the assist.

Second, Michael Carrick ran into the box and aimed for Kanoute who missed but took all the city defence with him leaving Trevor Sinclair open to tap it in.

Third, Kanoute takes the ball from the halfway line torments two city defenders simultaneously then chips the ball in for Ian Pearce to header past the hapless Nicky Weaver.

Finally, Kanoute dribbled into the box got pulled down, a penalty was given, and Paolo Di Canio scored the fourth.

The Hammers lived up to their name hammering City.

Eventually, City would get relegated that season whilst West Ham would use this win to propel themselves over the Cityzens.

Arsenal’s recent trips to Goodison Park have not been good, with only one win in seven games.

Back in 2002, there was a particular Everton win that stands out above all others including a certain Wayne Rooney.

Long ago before he became a world-class footballer for Manchester United conquering all before him, he was a young lad on a strong Everton team.

A defence of David Weir, Joseph Yobo, David Unsworth and Tony Hibbert kept Everton in the upper echelons of the Premier League.

Rooney broke through and shocked the world on this day. Arsenal came to town, the reigning champions with all their superstars, Thierry Henry, Sol Campbell, Patrick Vieira, Ashley Cole etc…

Arsenal opened the scoring with Freddie Ljungberg making sense of the chaos around him in the box and shooting at the right time to put the Gunners 1-0 up.

The Everton equaliser came after Lee Carsley’s shot cannoned off the post with everyone in disarray as to where the ball went the one person who kept his cool was Tomasz Radzinsky who fired past David Seaman.

The Toffees held on against Arsenal until the dying minutes of the game, when up stepped a young Wayne.

Touch, turn, bang, goal.

Wayne Rooney’s career summarised but everyone who was at Goodison that day saw it coming.

His first touch controls the ball turns to face goal and lets loose a cannonball that beats Seaman with no chance for the England international.

Everton would finish seventh that year not far behind rivals Liverpool whilst Arsenal would finish second five points behind champions Manchester United.

One of the most controversial races in the history of Formula One, especially in retrospect as Felipe Massa has quite literally sued F1 because of this race in the past few months.
This was the first-ever night Grand Prix and it was set to be the most exciting race of the year.
2008 was already a fascinating season with four drivers in the race for the title.

Kimi Raikkonen was reigning champion, Felipe Massa was on the verge of finally winning his first world title and Fernando Alonso was looking to regain the title he had won twice prior to Raikkonen.

The young stud putting everyone on edge was Lewis Hamilton at the time still a rookie in the Formula One World Championship.
Massa and Hamilton had won nine races between them in the build-up to the first-ever Singapore Grand Prix at the Formula One World Championship.
Qualifying had the top three drivers in the top three positions, Massa on the pole with Hamilton closing out the top of the grid, and Raikkonen on the second row with Robert Kubica.
Massa started brilliantly stopping Hamilton from overtaking, whilst Alonso had to start in the 13th position on the grid ahead of the race.
Then a Nelson Piquet Junior crash meant that the safety car had to be deployed, this meant that Alonso still had a chance of catching the frontrunners.
Everyone went for a refuel and the pit lane became more jammed than Piccadilly on a Friday night.
With that Massa got stuck in the traffic as did Hamilton and others such as Nico Rosberg.
Ferrari then made a massive mistake when Felipe Massa went out of the pit lane with his Fuel pipe still hanging from his car.

Forced to stop again in the pit lane he lost vital seconds a place. As it turns out the Fuel rig was completely stuck in Massa’s car.
Alonso would take full advantage and after Rosberg pitted one more time Alonso took the lead and kept it until the end.

Rosberg would finish second and Hamilton third.

As it turns out, Piquet admitted a year later that he crashed on purpose to give Alonso the advantage in the race.

It was the crash that prevented a dominant Massa from picking up his sixth win and eventually the World title, Hamilton’s first consequently.

The first-ever World Cup final of Rugby between the All Blacks and the French flair at Eden Park in Aukland.
New Zealand were well known for their World domination and France had been famous for playing beautiful Rugby throughout the 1980’s.
France had won the five nations championship earlier in the year with a Grand Slam.
They beat Wales 16-9, England 19-15 at Twickenham, Scotland 28-22, and Ireland 19-13 with a fantastic team built around Serge Blanco and Phillipe Sella.
New Zealand had built a brilliant team and took the lead early on with some dominant play in classic All-Blacks style, to take a 9-0 lead.

France did kick a penalty to make it 9-3 but New Zealand kept marching on it was 15-3 then soon they scored using brilliant quick passing the French would have been proud to score their second try with David Kirk getting the ball down.
Almost instantly Kirk ran through the French defence again and after a couple of quick passes John Kirwan was free and he raced down the line to score the definitive try finishing off the Les Bleues.
Grant Fox would kick New Zealand to glory for the rest of the match with Michael Jones scoring the other try for them.

France would get a consolation through Pierre Berbizier, who saw a pocket of space took advantage and got France their try.

36 years later in France this time they beat the All-Blacks and looked ready to finally lift the elusive World Cup.