MOTD Top 10: Premier League derbies, past and present

Derby day, there's nothing quite like it.

Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards will return in the spring with their latest series of the BBC Sounds hit, ranking their top 10s from an assortment of topics across the Premier League era.

One of those subjects will be derbies and we're giving you an early chance to get involved, by letting you pick your top three, with the trio seeing your choices before they record the pod.

«These games will always matter more to supporters than other games do but it is amazing how much the occasion affects players too, and how quickly you get sucked into the rivalry even if you haven't grown up with it. You feel the same way the fans do,» said host Lineker.

«Between us, we featured in quite a few.

»Alan has played in several Tyne-Wear derbies and Micah plenty of Manchester ones. When he was at Aston Villa, he had a taste of the Birmingham, or Second City derby, in a League Cup tie too.

«I played in the north London and Merseyside derbies and El Clasico.»

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Newcastle v Sunderland is always a huge event in the North East.

Sunderland are unbeaten in the past nine meetings, all in the Premier League, but the last one was in 2016 because of the Black Cats' slide down to the third tier.

«Here if you make a good tackle you're applauded almost as if you've scored a goal. It's almost like playing a game on the street,» said ex-Sunderland and Inter Milan midfielder Yann M'Vila, who reckoned the fixture had a better atmosphere than the Milan derby.

An indication of how big the rivalry remains is that 16,654 went to the Stadium of Light to see Sunderland beat Newcastle's under-21 side in the EFL Trophy in 2019.

Ex-Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin says the first