The city comes alive. The streets buzz with chatter all week. Kids in schools mimic their heroes on the playground. Workplaces rattle with banter between friends. It's the first game everyone looked for when the fixtures came out. It's the big one. It's the derby. 

Welcome to A Tale of One City, a deep dive into 14 of the world's most ferocious, colourful and historic single-city derbies. From the famed Superclásico and Old Firm to Casablanca and Hamburg, we bring you the complete story of the games that make football what it is, from wars and controversy to legends and silverware.

For the first 14 in what will be a new, ongoing magazine series, we traverse the world from Brazil to Istanbul to bring you some of our personal favourites.

Featuring:

• The Casablanca Derby, Morocco
• El Gran Derbi, Seville
• Clásico del Fútbol Uruguayo, Montevideo
• The Merseyside Derby, Liverpool
• The Old Firm, Glasgow
• Derby della Capitale, Rome
• Dérbi Paulista, São Paulo
• Hamburger Stadtderby, Hamburg
• Cairo Top Match, Egypt
• Derby della Madonnina, Milan
• Kıtalararası Derbi, Istanbul
• Derby of the Eternal Enemies, Athens
• Superclásico, Buenos Aires
• The Eternal Derby, Belgrade
  

Order now before we sell out. Every other issue has sold out before dispatch and won't be back until we reprint in future.

Dispatch by 31 October