‘I don’t like corporate boxes’: Jeremy and Ben Corbyn on Arsenal, coaching and Starmer The former Labour leader and his son reveal how football changed their family, and discuss the pleasure and pain that comes from loving such a voraciously capitalist sport.
Corbyn watched the boys and girls running, passing and yelling with such freedom but he also revealed that, two miles away, there was concern that far-right protesters would gather that afternoon outside Finsbury Park mosque.
Last Saturday morning, with the biting cold and bright sunshine providing a perfect day for football, Jeremy Corbyn climbed off his bicycle at Tufnell Park playing fields.
Among other reasons for their separation, he believed Ben should go to the local comprehensive while Bracchita, concerned about their son’s education, chose a grammar school eight miles from Finsbury Park.
His youngest son, Tommy, never liked football but how did Ben and Seb react when Arsenal lost?
