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Their lead over Manchester City at the top of the table is currently seven points, with Tottenham nine points off the pace, Chelsea 10 points away and Arsenal and Manchester United 16 point behind and more likely to be renamed after Hogwarts houses and forced to play in deely boppers than they are to be crowned champions of England this year.

It should, for all intents and purposes be a cynical trail of broken Deely Boppers, frayed pink Stetsons and truncated pop-career dreams.

By that time it had already grown from a tiny protest/art happening that began in 1989 to a sea of a million gurning ravemonkeys in deely boppers surging through the streets in an undifferentiated mass, soundtracked by the thud of lowest common denominator German "Schranz" techno.

As long as people aren't wearing crotchless jeans outside primary schools or deely boppers with attached sparklers on petrol station forecourts, we've all got the right to wear exactly what the hell we like and I can barely believe that we're having this debate.