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Leeds and Chelsea's ferocious rivalry was immortalised by the violent 1970 FA Cup final, but the hatred has endured with stadiums trashed and fans abusing their OWN bosses because of past links... now the ultimate North-South conflict is set to be renewed

Rivalries do tend to be geographic. In football, the thought of sharing the same city with another group of fans is often too much to bear.

Sometimes, though, the hatred runs deeper than that felt for your noisy neighbours. Sometimes it is about ideologies. Sometimes, it becomes personal. That is how the rivalry between Leeds and Chelsea, two sides separated by over 200 miles, began.

For a country where the division between the North and the South appear to be rearing its head again, the footballing rivalry that embodies it is also making a comeback.