David Cameron in Villa Shirt

[frank]

The PM was photographed today jogging in Hyde Park wearing a no 10 Villa shirt:


The Evening Standard reporter who saw him wrote in his blog:

The PM passed me as I cycled west through Kensington Gardens just before 7.30am this morning, just past the Serpentine Gallery.
I did a double-take - he was surrounded by FIVE protection officers (four men and a woman) - and noticed he was wearing a footie shirt with his name and the number of 10 Downing Street on the back.
At first I thought it was a West Ham shirt but then realised it was more likely to be Villa - nearer his Witney constituency.
But I needed a pic. First I waited for him near the Serpentine gallery, and then as he and his team passed the Serpentine lake. But with only my BlackBerry to hand, I couldn't get the "money shot" - one that showed CAMERON 10 on the back of the shirt.
Despite his scary-looking police officer (the bald one who looks like ex-Villa goalie Brad Friedel) giving me a filthy look and demanding: "Haven't you got anything better to do?" I pedalled back to Hyde Park Corner for one last attempt.
There Mr Cameron and his officers had stopped for a breather, having probably been running for at least 30 minutes. I introduced myself as being from the Evening Standard and asked if he would pose for a picture with his shirt - but he declined and would only say: "I am an ardent fan."
(At first I thought he was talking about the Evening Standard but he repeated the phrase when I said I liked the No10 on his back.)
Sadly, I didn't get a shot of "CAMERON 10" but you can just about make it out from my amateurish video clip above.
Downing Street's press office hasn't responded to my question about whether the shirt was a present, but a spokesman for Aston Villa told me he believed the club had presented the PM with a replica shirt - but couldn't be sure it was the one he was wearing.

Here's the link which includes the video clip:
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[damon loves JT]

getting a bit podgy, isn't he? will look like Nicholas Soames in a couple of years.

[VillaZogmariner]

You'd think he could afford the latest shirt, unless he too isn't a fan of the checks.

[LeeB]

We should issue some kind of 'fatwa', as this is a close to blasphemy as it gets in my godless world.

[mazrimsbruv]

Thought it was common knowledge that the PM was a Villa fan? Why does this hack seem so reluctant to believe it?

First of all it must be a West Ham shirt. Then it must be a present from someone. Then he thinks he's saying he's "an ardent fan" of the f*cking Evening Standard??

Twat

[Risso]

He'll have to change it to Albrighton Street for this season.

[LeeB]

He'll have to change it to Albrighton Street for this season.

Tidy.

[Villa'Zawg]

Perhaps this thread should be merged with the nutters and Nazis thread to keep all the unpalatable topics in one place.

[dave.woodhall]

As ever, time to point out this is the same David Cameron who always said he wasn't a Villa supporter.

[villa `cross the mersey]

As ever, time to point out this is the same David Cameron who always said he wasn't a Villa supporter.

Neither was his uncle !

[Rip Van We Go Again]

As ever, time to point out this is the same David Cameron who always said he wasn't a Villa supporter.

Quite.
It was bad enough with Blair romancing about Newcastle, now we've got this bloated buffoon professing to be a Villa supporter.

What next?
Nick Griffin in one of our 70's retro shirts?

[D.boy]

In the shirt, on the park!

[usav]

As ever, time to point out this is the same David Cameron who always said he wasn't a Villa supporter.

Surely nobody was a Villa supporter before they became a Villa supporter?

[dave.woodhall]

As ever, time to point out this is the same David Cameron who always said he wasn't a Villa supporter.

Neither was his uncle !

His uncle was. No problem with his uncle at all.

[rjp]

In the Grauniad article it says that 'reportedly' his uncle was former Villa chairman Sir William Dugdale and he became a fan after he took him to a match.