Players attacked on the pitch, 160 arrests in just one afternoon and fans punching police HORSES... as Sunderland and Newcastle prepare for the first Tyne-Wear derby in eight years, Mail Sport looks back on one of Britain's most violent fixtures

Few derbies in international football have as much historic tension as the one played in Tyne and Wear, a county whose very establishment in 1974 caused controversy due to the cities' mutual dislike.


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