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Since both Hearts and Hibs originated in the Old Town, rivalry between the clubs was always inescapable.
Sectarian loyalties became articulated in club support for, respectively, Glasgow's Celtic and Rangers, Edinburgh's Hibs and Hearts and, early on, for Dundee's Hibs (from 1923 United) and Dundee F.C.
Other rivalries such as between Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian in Edinburgh or the Dundee and Dundee United divide were but pale reflections of this fiercer and peculiarly Scottish rivalry.
Sectarianism of a more muted kind also lay beneath the Hearts and Hibs split in Edinburgh
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