Crystal Palace manager Ian Holloway dismissed the importance of local derbies as "nonsense" after the Eagles' 3-0 defeat at Brighton.
The Eagles and the Seagulls may not be geographically linked but have been fierce rivals since the days of Terry Venables and Alan Mullery in the late 1970s.
On Sunday Leonardo Ulloa's brace and a free-kick from David Lopez secured Brighton's first home success over the enemy from up the A23 in 25 years.
But Holloway insists he has bigger fish to fry than worrying about derby matches.
"I don't care about rivalry," said the Eagles boss. "We've got rivalry with every single team in this division to try and get up.
"So when you talk about rivalry or local rivalry it's a waste of breath and nonsense.
"I come from Bristol, no one cares. It's about who can finish the season in those top-two places, who can then muster a gallop to win the play-offs. That's all that matters."
Palace now have a two-week international break to lick their wounds before they host Birmingham a week on Friday.
And Holloway said: "There's eight games left, we've got to dust ourselves down and look optimistically at the next challenge.
"We've got eight games left to do a bit better than that. Brighton have enjoyed that but we have to get back to work. We'll live to fight another day."
Lampard stole the headlines after the 2-0 win over West Ham on Sunday by scoring his 200th goal for the club, but he was quick to praise Hazard, who netted the second goal.
The Belgium international, who moved to Stamford Bridge from Lille in June, was compared with Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola by the England veteran.
"Eden is 22. He has got the world at his feet and he can handle the pressure because he is that good," said Lampard.
"His ability and speed off the mark and the way he is able to turn on a sixpence is what all great attacking players have and he's got it in abundance.
"Zola did it throughout his career while Eden's at a relatively early part of his career but what he is showing now are glimpses that he can be in that bracket and be one of the top players in the world.
"He is very laid back, a great character and not too much bothers him by the look of it. That's the way he plays and it reflects in his game.
"I hope he carries on doing it because he's an absolute pleasure to play with."
Warnock is ready to step aside after Saturday's home defeat to Huddersfield left Leeds seven points adrift of the Championship play-offs with eight games left to play.
But the 64-year-old has told Dubai-based equity investment firm GFH Capital, who completed their ?52million takeover at Elland Road in December, that he can play a leading role in finding his successor.
"I want them to get the best manager they can get to replace me and some of them might not be available until the summer," said Warnock.
"They're in a situation now where the club is geared for the Premier League.
"The new owners have come in, it was the longest takeover I've ever known, I expected that to be finalised last August, so it has been a difficult eight or nine months for me.
"But they've come in and they're going to do things steady.
"It's not like they've got to chop and change everything now. I think two or three additions now with a very good squad, the whole club with the fans and everything, it's just geared now.
"I know they've (fans) heard it all before, but I think there's some optimism at the club.
"It's a great club and I can help them as well whether I'm here or not."
Asked if he would step aside now if the right candidate be came available, Warnock added: "Goodness me yes.
"I'm not naive. If we've not got a chance of getting in the play-offs they can do two things, they can ask me to stay on if they can't get the main man, because they might not be able to get him.
"I don't want them to panic and get anybody. I've seen some of the people putting their hat in the ring and quite honestly I think the club should be patient.
"I've got a couple of ideas of who they should be going for if that's the case, but let's see what happens.
"I think we're quite capable of going to Ipswich and Derby and getting six points, so you never write it off."
Warnock, whose contract expires in June, has made no secret of his intentions to walk away from the club this summer if he failed to clinch a record-breaking eighth promotion and lead them back into the Barclays Premier League.
He wants to return to the south-west to be closer to his family home.
"At 64 I don't want to be that far away from my family.
"I wanted to give it a go to get in the Premier League because it's a fabulous club and I still think with a little bit more fortune and a bit more investment at the right time we could have been there.
"To lose Snodgrass was a major blow. He was the only player I didn't want to lose.
"We've never quite replaced that quality. It's frustrating for me.
"If I was five or 10 years younger it wouldn't be frustrating, I'd be looking forward to everything about the future.
"It's just the situation I'm in, that's why.
"I want the club to go forward and we've still got to give it our best shot.
"If I'm still here in a fortnight's time, we've got to give it our best shot.
"The following will be fantastic at Ipswich, I'm sure that we will sell out and then Derby here on the Monday, two great games really.
"So I wouldn't write the group off."
Leeds travel to Ipswich after the international break on March 30 and then take on Derby at Elland Road on Easter Monday (April 1).
Former Southampton manager Nigel Adkins is the bookmakers favourite to replace Warnock, while Brighton boss Gus Poyet, who spent 12 months as assistant to Dennis Wise at Elland Road in 2006, and ex-Swindon manager Paolo Di Canio have also been linked with the job.
The 19-year-old, who has played three times for the Grecians this season, enjoyed a successful spell with Magpies last season.
This move is the City youth product's third of the campaign as he also spent time on loan at Hereford and Bath City.
The adjudication relates to alleged payments between Watford and finance company LNOC Limited which have resulted in the club's former owner and director Laurence Bassini being banned from any participation in football for three years.
Despite the transfer embargo, the club can still buy and sell players under Regulation 19 of the Football League Regulations, as long as they receive prior authorization from the relevant football authorities.
"It is clear from the decision of the Football Disciplinary Commission that the offences which the club has been found guilty of were committed by one or two individuals who are no longer associated with the club - and without the knowledge of the full Board of the club," read a statement on Watford's official website.
"Neither Watford Football Club - nor any of its individual officers - will be making any further comment on this matter."
