The winning Liberal Democrat soccer team

CAMDEN’S Labour group spent 12 months plotting footy revenge on their Lib Dems rivals – only to lose again.

Councillors and campaigners from each party took to the field at the Castlehaven pitch in Camden Town on Friday night – a year on from the Lib Dems’ grudge match victory last time.

The game was held to encourage donations to the New Journal’s Christmas Hamper appeal. As usual when these two teams meet, it was not a match light on controversy.

Will Labour have better luck when the two teams clash at the ballot box in May?

The Lib Dems say a late equaliser by Labour housing chief Sagal Abdi-Wali to make the scoreline 6-6 was netted in ‘Eddie time’. Mayor of Camden Eddie Hanson had been in charge of the stopwatch.

But the yellow team’s complaints died down when they promptly won a penalty shootout to take the bragging rights – just four and half months before the local elections.

Labour only scored one of their penalties with hot-shot captain Camron Aref-Adib among the missers.