In Madrid on Saturday night Liverpool and Tottenham face each other in the Champions League football final.
Both sides will have many partisan supporters and I’m one being a born and bred Tottenham resident
It is however only a game and its worth keeping in mind that far more unites the two areas than divides:
1 Both Liverpool and Tottenham are Labour areas
2 Both Liverpool and Tottenham voted Remain
3 Both Liverpool and Tottenham are working-class areas whose industry was devastated by Thatcherism
Cheer on the appropriate side tonight but the history of working-class solidarity should be the winner in the end
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