12 perfect takedowns of a Tory MP’s bizarre North-South divide theory of football and the performing arts

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Here's Tory MP Jake Berry's handy map of London's ballet companies. https://t.co/DwIMpPbT0I pic.twitter.com/U2vYTeQvdB

— Colin Millar (@Millar_Colin) November 11, 2020

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Nobody in London likes football, nobody in the North has even heard of this "ballay" of which you speak. Sorry I don't make the rules. https://t.co/gUmQZWHNf4

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) November 11, 2020

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Yes. As a person who lives in the South, I can confirm this. Many of us actually live inside opera houses and communicate solely in the form of arias and recitative. Swarms of ballerinas are a daily menace on the streets, and we're warned never to feed them. https://t.co/4zMT7jRdvb

— simon maginn (@simonmaginn) November 11, 2020

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It's nuts in the south.

I went to Swan Lake (away) once. and got jumped by loads of Marriage of Figaro fans. I was struck by an ultra wielding Stone Island opera glasses.

Marriage of Figaro wasn't even on that weekend. That's how passionately they take it down here. https://t.co/HzVoSffzLP

— Steven (@mirkobolesan) November 11, 2020

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what is football? is it like opera without music?

— Henry Mance (@henrymance) November 11, 2020

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Almost completed my Stars of Ballet Panini sticker book.

Still need Vaslav Nijinsky, Gelsey Kirkland and Galina Ulanova, if anyone has duplicates.

— Michael Glasper (@michaelglasper) November 11, 2020

Yorkshireman Reece Dinsdale, who both acts and directs in the theatre and attends matches played by his beloved Huddersfield Town AFC, drew a line under the whole thing with this inarguable fact.

Football is football wherever you live. It means the same to people the world over… the same passion.
I take your point about saving clubs, but you’re doing an enormous disservice to the North, to its thriving Arts and Culture scene, if you think football is the sum of it all. https://t.co/DUUgOegRs5

— Reece Dinsdale (@reece_dinsdale) November 11, 2020

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