All Modern-Day British Professional Footballers

A bit of an anti-post this - with their lifestyles of extreme conspicuous consumption, and the occasional ill-advised and inarticulate comment on a subject matter outside the footballing box, it is has long-since been accepted wisdom that 'blue is the colour' for most of our ball-kicking brethren. And I, like all left-leaning football addicts, hypocritically turn a blind eye as I pay my money and get my fix. There are, of course, honourable exceptions to the 'footballer = Tory' rule but frankly I'm struggling to muster much evidence to date. For now:-

- Sir Alex Ferguson - fairly loathsome on most counts (though strangely less so now that Chelsea have bought their way into the big time) but has always, to his credit, been a consistant supporter of the Labour Party, and witnessed by this recent event - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6896760.stm.

- Graeme Le Saux / Pat Nevin - reputedly had the piss taken out of them by other pros for reading the Guardian (sic), so we'll give then the benefit of the doubt

And that's it.......