Gordon Hill aka the Wealdstone Raider's fame frazzles the mind
So it's come to this.
A man whose drunken rant about an opposition team having no fans is a celebrity.
The rant - something you see at football matches up and down the land every single Saturday, without fail - has made Gordon Hill famous.
It's propelled him into the top five of the UK singles chart and has no doubt earned him a very handsome pay day.
More than seven million people have watched the video of said rant, Hill has 125,000 Twitter followers and now goes up and down the country appearing at nightclubs and having pictures taken with beautiful women on his arm.
And on Saturday in Wolverhampton city centre the queues were huge as hundreds of seemingly sane, apparently sober people voluntarily paid £1 to meet a man known for saying "you've got no fans" and "you want some?" in a 30-second YouTube clip.
Bizarre.
As a Wolves fan who went to Saturday's game at Molineux, I could shout at Blackpool's rather meagre away following that "you've got no fans", get someone to record me saying drunkenly volleying it in their direction and then post it online.
Would that make me worthy of being a celebrity?
Personally I've got nothing against Gordon, who seems like a nice enough bloke.
Goodchilds is an reputable estate agents and Breakthrough Breast Cancer is of course an extremely worthy charitable cause. The fact £1,000 was raised from the day is wonderful.
It's just the fact this man is so famous that frazzles the mind.
If an academic genius, a brain surgeon or a brilliant economics expert was in Wolverhampton doing a Q&A on Saturday, no one would have batted an eyelid.
But some 48-year-old bloke saying "you've got no fans"? They queued around the block.
What a world we live in.
