Football is a battle. Two sets of 11 players attacking one another each other with a size five piece of thermoplastic polyurethane. So I don’t care if this is your first visit to the Bernabeu, you can’t watch this figurative war wearing two tribes’ colours. It's the footballing equivalent of putting milk in your tea cup before hot water.
This season I’ve watched my team play competitive fixtures in Europe against two historic clubs, in two iconic stadiums. But I was completely unmoved when confronted with the souvenir half-and-halves (€20 a pop).
