[theghostofrolandbarthes] It's ironic how Christian's taste in English football shirts is kind of like a visual metaphor for his sexuality. Given a free choice, he goes to watch Chelsea, who are top. When Derek Hay is there to twist his arm, he is forced to watch Spurs, who are bottom.

Thus, top and bottom in one man, in both footballing and sexual terms...it would seem that where football shirts are concerned, it is evident that C3X subscribes to Marshall McLuhan's theory that 'the medium is the message', and these colourful athletic garbs are actually instead a form of semiotic semaphore, rich in symbolic meaning.[/theghostofrolandbarthes]