Ask anyone to name sport’s great rivalries and the list starts to write itself. Celtic and Rangers. United and Liverpool. Barcelona and Real Madrid. The Yankees and the Red Sox. Kilkenny and Tipperary. Boston’s Red Sox went 86 years without a World Series while the New York Yankees won 26. So what qualifies as a rivalry? It’s the team that lives next door, the yardstick your team is measured against, the sense of history – but mostly it’s jealousy and rivalry that lives in the accumulated past. One season’s result barely alters the balance of perceived power from both sets…

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