From our fashion correspondent Belle Bottoms
BRISTOL City rocketed to the top of the Worst-Dressed League last night as The Incider exposed a shocking fashion scandal at Ashton Gate.
Stars including Lee Peacock and Christian Roberts have turned the home dressing room into a laughing stock with dodgy clobber which has left fans cringing.
But The Incider can reveal the dismal dress sense now infecting Ashton Gate has filtered down from the very TOP.
For these shocking photographs – so disturbing that we had to censor our front page to protect small children – are of none other than City supremo Steve Lansdown.
Steve Lansdown (left) hits a purple patch.
It’s Gaudy Locks (far right). Words defy us.
The blood-curdling shots show our sartorially-challenged Chairman with school pals from Thornbury Grammar in the early ’70s.
In one disturbing image, he sports a shaggy porn-a-like hairdo and ’tache, tight purple T-shirt and purple trousers rolled up to his knees.
Pals last night refused to reveal what he was doing with his hands.
In the other, Lansdown shows off his figure in shiny purple flares and a skin-tight top that defies description in a family newspaper.
Mystery surrounds the objects that he was carrying, but insiders confirmed the book was not The Good Taste Guide.
Sadly, The Incider can reveal Liam Rosenior’s move to Fulham came too late to prevent the impressionable teenager being influenced by our esteemed Chairman’s fashion faux pas.
He cut a sorry figure in last month’s Incider wearing a 1970s-style Huggy Bear outfit straight out of Starsky and Hutch.
One source said: “For years City fans have suspected the Chairman’s dodgy fashion sense runs deeper than the ties he sports in the boardroom.
“Now their worst fears have been confirmed.
“How can the club expect our rivals to take us seriously as promotion challengers when they can’t even stop laughing at the way we dress?
“It’s truly sickening to think such images could be linked with our club. Players take their cue from the very top, and when they see directors dress like this it rubs off on them.
“It shows a disturbing lack of judgement in the boardroom.”
Notorious clothing catastrophes to hit the club this season include:
• Lee Peacock’s infamous Plus-Fours golfing clobber
• Christian Roberts’ bizarre beanie hats
• Liam Rosenior’s “Huggy Bear” look
“Oi, Roberts, Peacock and Rosenior: NO!”
Danny Wilson was last night trying to bring in two new signings to end the slump in fashion form – What Not To Wear TV style gurus Trinny Goodall and Susannah Constantine.
He confirmed: “It’s the only way to save our season.
“Steve Phillips is complaining because his goalkeeper jerseys aren’t lurid enough and even Buster Footman has been demanding T-shirts with delicately embroidered patterns.”
Avon and Somerset Constabulary confirmed the Robins had voluntarily called in the fashion police.
A City spokesman added: “It is an option of last resort because it would merely increase our already exorbitant policing bill.
“But we simply cannot afford to allow the club to be brought into disrepute any longer.”
Lansdown last night denied any involvement in the decision to bring in a tight-fitting purple Paisley-patterned away kit with extra wide collars for next season.
He added: “Groovy, man.”
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