SENSE OF HUMOUR BYPASS

Last updated : 20 January 2005 By editor

Des Kelly in the Mail,

’We have discovered what the unacceptable face of football looks like and it is anything but pretty. It is Boris Johnson.

’Police at Anfield warned United fans waving spoof 'Vote Boris' posters printed by the Red Issue fanzine that they would be arrested. One ticket holder was even turned away at the turnstiles for singing 'there's only one Boris Johnson'.

’The bungling Tory MP, you might remember, was responsible for an editorial in The Spectator accusing Liverpudlians of wallowing in their 'victim status' after Iraq hostage Ken Bigley was killed. The police deemed use of Boris's name alone was inciting trouble.’