oldjamfan1

Paul McCartney and Wings - Give Ireland Back to the Irish

The English Beat - Sugar and Stress

Suzi Quatro - Can the Can

Sam Cooke - Bring It On Home To Me

The Small Faces - All or Nothing

The Electric Light Orchestra - Danger Ahead

The Jam - Girl on the Phone

In Rome it certainly could have been mate. I think Rovers were just generally more high profile back then - I lived in Glasgow in the post-1995 period and you used to see loads of kids (and adults actually) sporting the famous halved shirts. Same as you do City shirts now. Obviously blue and white is not palatable to one half of Glasgow or it would have been even more prevalent.

The Jam - Mr Clean

Yeah you certainly used to see the odd fake shirt in the shops of Mallorca in the mid 90s. They were very obviously fakes though.

The Beatles - Martha My Dear

Some great news about Dom Matteo https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52398988

The Dickies - Eve of Destruction

Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me?

Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up

The Christians - Harvest For the World

It would have taken an exceptionally talented player to get into the team in front of those three to be fair (all arguably at the peak of their powers as well, certainly in the case of Dunn and Jansen anyway)

It was just you mate - they didn't like the way you spelt your surname. Mr Daffodil always got an excellent reception down there.

So, in a nutshell Ireland's Rover it looks like you have got yourself a genuine 'player-issue' shirt from the 1995/6 season. The eBay seller may have got a couple of details wrong (the wrong season and also the fact that it wasn't entirely a one-off shirt, which wouldn't have helped with your research into it) but well done you, lovely shirt that!

Deep Purple - Hush

It looks kosher to me. There was definitely no ASICS badge on the shirt for that game (see photo). I think it may have been 95/6 season though?

That’s the point Mike. I didn’t really assume it, I asked you whether that was the reason, given that he hasn’t come out as far as I know (either as gay or as anything else). Without really wishing to labour the point there must have been something about MGP that made you think or assume that he was gay. The fact that you were only 14 at the time you made that assumption might actually explain it to be fair. Your posts are usually very measured and it just surprised me a bit that you threw MGP’s name into this for no apparent reason. For the record I don’t care what his or anyone’s sexuality is.

Roxy Music - Street Life

The two bits in bold - firstly, what behaviours were MGP and his associate exhibiting that made you think or indeed assume he might be gay? (e.g. if they were holding hands or kissing or in some way acting flirtatiously etc then it would be a reasonable assumption to make, otherwise enjoying a meal with someone regardless of their gender suggests absolutely nothing about their sexuality or whether they are in a sexual relationship. I must have had literally hundreds of meals and/or nights out with male friends and business associates - some of them on many occasions - but I can't imagine anyone would have ever thought "I wonder if oldjamfan is gay" - or maybe they have, I don't know?). Secondly, there is no 'implication' to the question. It was a perfectly straightforward question as to what made you think MGP might be gay - I have heard other people make the same suggestion and could only assume that it was based on a slightly effeminate/androgenous appearance. You seem to have taken offence at the fact that I am calling you out for making a massive assumption about someone based on I-don't-really-know-what, and named him on a public forum.

Based on what Mike? A slightly effeminate/androgenous look? Totally agree with your second sentence by the way but what does a 'gay' person look like?