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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Ellen Kirwin

Cheeky Liverpool fans rename Margaret Thatcher square in Madrid ahead of Champions League final

Liverpool fans have renamed Margaret Thatcher square in Madrid ahead of the Champions League final.

The Spanish capital was the first place in the world to name a square after the former Prime Minster in 2014 - and in doing so divided many opinions.

Just a year later Manuela Carmena, the mayor of Madrid, proposed changing the name of the plaza following controversy but the name still stands.

Now Reds supporters have arrived in Madrid, it seems they have done it themselves.

Fans have hung up signs that read ‘Jeremy Corbyn Square’, posting them over the Thatcher wording.

The former Tory PM is deeply unpopular on Merseyside - and particularly in Liverpool - for her treatment of the city in the 1980s.

Her policy towards Liverpool was famously described as 'managed decline' by her cabinet minister Geoffrey Howe.

Paul Doherty, from Walton, was one of those fans involved in the square's 'rebranding'.

He told the ECHO: “They commemorate thatcher in Madrid but they don’t really understand what she did to the city and our people.

“Liverpool is Labour, always has been always will be, so we decided to commemorate that with Jezza here."

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