Manchester United and Manchester City fans may be enemies on the terraces, but they have joined forces to revolt against a ' nonsense' campaign to cancel the ships on their club crests over claims that they are symbols of the slave trade.The giants' badges both feature three-masted ships - an emblem of the city and more specifically a tribute to the opening of the Manchester Ship Canal in 1894.But Left-wingers say the ship, a symbol of the city also carved into the town hall and the city council's crest, symbolises the slave trade, and should be replaced by a bee - the poignant symbol used in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017.
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