When I was a kid at junior school and first played football, actually 20 kids chasing a ball round a cinder pitch. The Albion in Shaw. A replica shirt was unheard of.

A few years later, we moved to Feltham, West London. My mum and dad took me and my brothers to Loftus Road. My mum had knitted us all blue and white sweaters. The Latics wore tangerine and blue. It will always be my first choice kit.

I don't care what Bates did or didn't do. If you want to base bad owners on the shirt colour. We should never wear blue again!