All that feeds into the myths, reinforcing them: Real Madrid as the power, Atletico the people; bourgeoisie against proletarians; right-wing against left-wing (even though the far right is as implicated in Atlético as it is in Real Madrid, and the city's third team, Rayo Vallecano, largely ignored, is the one which has more left-wing influence); the swish, sanitised north against the 'real' city of the south; the favored against the persecuted; the media darlings against the unfashionable battlers...