In my lifetime, our biggest rivals have been, in no particular order:

Spurs

Leeds

West Ham

Arsenal

Millwall

Man Utd

Liverpool

Out of those, some are more terrace related than actual football on the pitch and the likes of QPR and Fulham wanted to be our rivals where we kind of laughed at them.

I guess a lot of it, will come down to who is the successful team of the moment, so since the late 70's onwards, the likes of Liverpool, Arsenal and Man Utd have becomes the teams you always want to beat. Of course you always want to beat anyone, especially Spurs & Leeds, but in the last few seasons, I suppose I want us to beat Arsenal and Liverpool more than anyone, because both annoy me equally - especially their fan-bases.

But I post this now, because even though they have been very successful for a fair while now, Man City never bothered me and I was of the opinion that if we can't be winning things, I would much rather City did than Arsenal, Utd or the Dippers. But I think that may have now changed. With the two Enzo's now at City, I am looking to the games where we play them, and I probably want to win those more than any others this season. The thought of us losing to the bald pep-lite fraud and the tattooed Argie c*nt....................well it just can't happen. This rivalry might only last all the time Maresca is there (which hopefully won't be long at it will all end in tears), but the first time we play City will be the day after my birthday in December and it will be the best birthday present I could wish for if we take those 3 points.

In my parallel universe there is only one rival, Liverpool.