Paris FC put up a good fight at the Parc des Princes on Sunday but this derby does not yet feel like a rivalry
By Get French Football News
The first of two Paris derbies in the space of eight days gave Paris Saint-Germain a chance to make a statement against their upstart neighbours. The tifo display in the Parc des Princes ? which read ?Paris c?est nous? ? could be read as both a nod to the clubs? shared history and a reminder of the one-sided nature of the derby.
For a few years, they were the same club. Paris Saint-Germain are the result of a merger between Stade Saint-Germain and Paris FC in 1970, which the latter split from a few years later. PSG were soon winning trophies but Paris FC went through decades of obscurity before emerging as Ligue 2 regulars in the years before they were taken over by the Arnault family and Red Bull.
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