With just two years to go until New York hosts the World Cup final, could ‘soccer’ culture finally be taking root in the Big Apple? To find out, FourFourTwo crossed the Atlantic to see Manchester City’s sister side NYCFC face the Red Bulls in the feisty Hudson River Derby.
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00:00Okay, so here's the situation.
00:06Red Bulls versus New York City is a derby that doesn't have a storied history, but it
00:10does have a fierce one.
00:17And tonight, both teams are in great form.
00:21Both teams think they're going to win this game.
00:23Both teams need to win this game.
00:25442 is here in the Citi Field Stadium to see what happens.
00:35But before all that, we took the liberty of the afternoon to sit down with some fans of
00:39Citi and some fans of Red Bull just to see what the story is here, to tell you the side
00:44of it you probably haven't heard yet.
00:51Hey, listen, we get along right now, it's okay because he's a good guy.
01:21He's actually a very good guy.
01:22But for 90 minutes, I don't like this guy for one, for nothing.
01:25That's right.
01:26That's right.
01:27I saw him go back to Jersey all day.
01:28Before and after the game, it's all love, but during the game, we hate each other to
01:31death.
01:32That's it.
01:33That's a high school ring.
01:34Yeah, that's fake school rings.
01:35I got one.
01:36I got one.
01:37I got one.
01:38I got one.
01:39I got one.
01:40I got one.
01:41I got one.
01:42I got one.
01:43I got one.
01:44So we've got, and I love to be incredibly British about this, but we've got two New York City
02:01game rebel fans there.
02:04These chairs are throwable, they should be a 100 yards apart with a police cordon.
02:11America's got so far to go with these rivalries, man, so far to go.
02:15I thought, NYFC people have bought you, but I guess not.
02:19NYCFC, sir.
02:20You gotta have that C in there, man.
02:21New York City Football Club.
02:22That's for you, sir.
02:23New York City Football Club.
02:24New York City Football Club.
02:25New York City Football Club.
02:26But that's the problem.
02:27These guys only come from the city.
02:29That's why we're the true New York team.
02:31You know, it's pretty crazy because we haven't been neck and neck like that for a bit for
02:35the last couple of years.
02:36You know, so to actually see that, that we're actually playing for positions this high.
02:46Love it!
02:47Did you just go to the hardware store there, Vic, to get a hacksaw?
02:50Get the hacksaw, yeah.
02:51Here it is.
02:59Full-on barbecue.
03:03What do you say?
03:04What's like the thing?
03:05City!
03:06Go City!
03:16It's all good.
03:22Let's go, Devils!
03:24Let's go, New Jersey!
03:27New York, let's go!
04:45Here comes Malakai Jones, Noah Ayla defending, Jones getting the cross, Cedric, oh my god,
05:05Cedric!
05:36Harper from distance, oh it's in!
06:03Spectacular from Cameron Harper, level in the Hudson River Derby!
06:23New York City will be patient, Zanz to Wolfe, Wolfe cutting inside away from Morgan, leaving
06:29for Graham Cross, oh it's in!
06:33Take the load off, Moussa Fakhraoui!
06:37His first goal of the year, at long, long last, and what a match to do it in!
06:43It's in!
06:59And just like that, New York is blue.
07:02City 2, Red Bulls 1, the MLS season does roll on apace, but that's been it for us at 442
07:09here in New York City.
07:11Thank you so much for joining us on this little journey.
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07:27going to leave you with my brand new friends, the New York Red Bulls fans, who are just
07:32having the worst possible time.
07:35Goodbye!