We hate Nottingham Hotspurs

CALL ME DAvE got his replica kit in a twist when he appeared to have forgotten which football team he supports.

Although Dave has always claimed to be an Aston villa fan, he told an audience in South London that he was a West Ham supporter. Come on you Irons! They do both play in claret and blue, but that’s no excuse. So do Burnley, though I can’t imagine Cameron ever claiming to sit al ongside Alastair Campbell at Turf Moor.

He later apologised, saying he was suffering from ‘ brain fade’ because of his gruelling election schedule.

Dave couldn’t even recall the year in which villa won the European Cup (1982). If he was a true fan, it would be imprinted indelibly on his consciousness.

The fact is, Dave isn’t a diehard supporter. His team play in blue, with a yellow stripe down the back. He only adopted villa after being taken there as a 13-year-old boy by his uncle, who was the club chairman.

Why is it that politicians have to pretend they’re football fans to ingratiate themselves with voters? Tony Blair, who went to public school in Scotland, once claimed he was a Newcastle United fan who used to sit at the Gallowgate End and watch local hero ‘Wor Jackie’ Milburn.

He might have got away with it had everyone in the NorthEast not known that the Gallowgate was all- standing i n those days and Jackie Milburn left Newcastle when Blair was four.

Genuine football supporters are few and far between at Westminster. To his credit, Roy Hattersley continued to support his boyhood club Sheffield Wednesday, even though he represented a Birmingham constituency.

And I once saw Michael Foot making his way to Manchester City’s old Maine Road ground, wear in g his green and white Plymouth Argyle scarf and waving his trademark walking stick.

The rest of them manage to get it spectacularly wrong, not least when they insist on calling it ‘footie’, which is how dopey birds and public school boys refer to football.

‘My favourite footie moment? I remember it well, sitting in the Shed at t he old emirates Stadium watching Jimmy Best score a hat-trick for Liverpool against Tottenham Forest.’

If Cameron ever turns up in the Doug Ellis Stand again, he can expect some almighty ridicule from the Holte End.

Just as well the constituency which is home to villa Park is solid Labour and not a Tory target marginal. He’s j ust scored a spectacular own goal.

Over ’ere, Dave. On me ’ead!