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Every football fan will argue that their club's biggest and fiercest rivalry deserves its place on the UK's 'Mount Rushmore' of derbies.
Well, even talkSPORT has struggled to narrow the picks down to just four selections.
A photo of the iconic Mount Rushmore carving8
Sports fans use Mount Rushmore - the iconic carved sculpture depicting influential US presidents - as a benchmark to list the most influential things in a specific subject - but talkSPORT argues four is not enough!
Every Thursday, Max will pick his definitive list using the Mount Rushmore ranking method - four iconic people, matches etc - in a variety of categories. However, four is quite hard, so he's arguing for a fifth, which is why Max has called his Mount Rusmore-or-less.
And there's no better place to start than derbies; it's the one every fan first looks for and is essentially a cup final within itself.
Celtic vs Rangers: 'More than just football'
Scott explained: "This is a 50-50 divide within the city, separated by the River Clyde, and it's more than just football.
"I know that's cliché, but this is political, this is religious, and it's the fiercest derby out there.
"And that 12.30 kickoff on a Saturday or a Sunday, which is in place, by the way, for policing and safety purposes, is compulsory viewing."
Celtic and Rangers fans have been banned from attending Old Firm away matches as a result of theon-pitch clashes between supporters.
"I'd much rather watch League One than Scottish football," Scott added. "However, when it's the Old Firm Derby, you have to watch it.
And even if you're one of these people that sits there and thinks, 'Rangers and Celtic wouldn't make it out of the Championship', you cannot deny that this, as a derby, in and of itself, is unlike anything we'll ever see in England.
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Celtic and Rangers players scrapping in an Old Firm derby8
Dating back to 1888, Glasgow hosts one of the fiercest derbies in football and you can guarantee there will be fireworks
Police officer and stewards force fans back after they invaded the pitch following a penalty shoot out after the Scottish Gas Men's Scottish Cup quarter-final8
As well as fiery battles on the pitch, both sets of supporters have been involved in large-scale disorder leading to away fans being banned from games
'The biggest and best rivalry'
"This is partly down to the violence which we've seen prevent away fans from going into the stadiums.
"In many ways, it's a stain on the game, but you cannot take away from how passionate this is.
"For me, watching the Old Firm Derby, it's like a break away from a much more sanitised version of football that we get in the Premier League.
"And I love the Premier League. It's still the best league in the world, but the authentic, raw passion that you get in Glasgow on an Old Firm Derby day is unrivalled.
"Arguably, it's the fiercest, the biggest, the best rivalry in UK football in derbies!"
Aston Villa vs Birmingham is 'an absolute corker'
Scott continued: "I think people have a little bit of a recency bias because Birmingham haven't been in the Premier League since 2011, but that doesn't take away from how much these two clubs hate each other.
Although the sides have been in different divisions, the passion between Birmingham and Villa fans remains highCredit: Getty
Jack Grealish of Aston Villa gets up after being struck by fan during the Sky Bet Championship match between Birmingham City and Aston Villa at St Andrew's Trillion8
Although the sides have been in different divisions, the passion between Birmingham and Villa fans remains high
A composite image of both a Man United vs Liverpool match and Celtic vs Rangers8
The UK is home to some of the most fiery rivalries in world football where you can guarantee things will get heated among fans, players and coaches
"St. Andrews and Villa Park are just 2.4 miles apart. It's, in fact, the closest derby in England."
The Second City Derby hasn't taken place since 2019, when Jack Grealish was assaulted by a Blues fan on the pitch before he scored the winner in a 1-0 triumph for Villa in the Championship.
Scott said: "That catapults his career, or one of the many things to catapult his career to become a treble winner that we saw at Manchester City.
"Just because it's outside London, just because these two clubs aren't always in the Premier League, doesn't mean this isn't an absolute corker of a rivalry."
Arsenal vs Tottenham is the only legitimate elite-level derby in London
This season, there are six Premier League clubs based in the capital, which means there are 30 combinations of a London derby each year.
And that's just in the top-flight; Charlton Athletic, Millwall, Queens Park Rangers, and West Ham make up the London sides in the Championship - with all 10 sides also potentially facing each other across each of the two domestic cup competitions as well.
However, Nottingham Forest fan Scott argued: "I've got a bee in my bonnet about Londoners trying to create a rivalry out of everything.
"QPR against West Ham, it's not a derby. The only legitimate elite-level derby in London is the North London Derby.
"It's a genuine turf war. You go back to 1913, and the Woolwich Arsenal, now Arsenal, were a South London club until they moved to Highbury, and it became a turf war.
"And that's essentially the feel I get from Arsenal and Spurs fans about how much they hate each other. It's like a gang turf war.
"This is a legitimate, fierce, massive UK rivalry.
"And the irony is, this now-famous song about North London forever that Arsenal sing, it's not legitimate.
"Spurs have been the forever North London club. And so, apologies, Arsenal fans, it's a massive derby, but Spurs were there first."
Micky van de Ven challenges Bukayo Saka8
Arsenal's move from south to north London in 1913 sparked the rivalry that has seen countless flashpoints - and Arsenal winning the league at Tottenham's home twice
Statistically, the dirtiest derby in UK football
It's not the Old Firm Derby. It's the Tyne-Wear Derby, averaging over five yellows a game and a red card every other game.
"It goes all the way back to King Charles I, who essentially gave Newcastle a monopoly over the coal industry, which had an economic impact on Sunderland. That's where this hatred begins.
"And it's not just back to the times of King Charles and Cromwell. This is industry rivalry, whether it's coal, whether it's shipmaking.
"They've always been at loggerheads. They've always been in competition, and you see that on the football pitch.
"I think they'll probably look down on these sort of so-called London rivalries when QPR or Fulham are playing Chelsea.
"It's not a scratch on the Tyne-Wear Derby, let me tell you."
Police officers hold back a crowd of Newcastle United fans outside the stadium prior to the Premier League match between Newcastle United and Sunderland8
Police officers hold back a crowd of Newcastle fans outside St James' Park prior to Sunderland's arrival in March
Paul Scholes of Manchester United clashes with Jamie Carragher of Liverpool as Nani lies injured during the Barclays Premier League match between Liverpool and Manchester United at Anfield on March 6, 20118
Man United have many enemies in the Premier League, but the rivalry with Liverpool trumps that with City as well as the Merseyside derby Liverpool contest with Everton
What has been snubbed?
"I haven't included Millwall vs West Ham," Scott began while leading up to his fifth and final selection.
"I haven't included the Steel City derby in Sheffield. I haven't included the East Midlands derby, the Brian Clough derby between Forest and Derby. Haven't included the Merseyside derby, for crying out loud..."
But to add insult to Everton's injury, Liverpool have been included - but against arch-rivals Manchester United.
"The reason being, these are the biggest clubs in England, two of the biggest institutions in world football.
"Both have got 20 titles. Liverpool, of course, have a slightly richer European history, but you think about [former managers] Fergie, Paisley, Shankly, Klopp.
"They have permeated English football imagination since the get-go. Two clubs, both with their own sort of tragedies.
"These are the biggest clubs in England. Nobody can argue otherwise, and therefore I can't not have them in my Mount Rushmore - or less of UK football derbies.
"It's elite. Simple as."