It was for several reasons that Open Goal found itself at various points in Larndarn town last weekend, watching the marathon.

Seeing the missus for a combined total of seven seconds in five hours was one, the other was to look at what were the most popular football shirts among our mile-craving, lunatic element of society. That and Liverpool were on the telly.

The answer? West Ham, of course. The Hammers boasted the most shirts by some considerable margin, followed by QPR, Manchester United, Stuttgart and France (not particularly in that order).

Amazingly there were more Borat thongs than people wearing Liverpool shirts (I wonder that says about our society as a whole?). Spurs and Arsenal shirts were conspicuous by their absence, given that we were in the capital, while Red Devil-wearing runners were often greeted with jeers. Arsenal fans must have seen their capitulation coming…

Fair play to the lad who wore an Aston Villa kit, complete with shorts, socks and shin pads. Next year, though, someone should tell him he needed to stop doing that about 15 years ago.

Then there was Oxford United fan…. If it wasn’t enough that, upon only reaching the 6 ½ mile mark he looked as though he was losing the will to live, realising he had another 22 miles to go, he then looked down and saw he supported a bag of shite. Poor lamb…

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