Here at Derailed we're not normally ones to use "gay" as a derogatory term, but in trying to think of a subject title we realised that we ARE trying to cater for an internet audience. We'll do whatever it takes to generate some clickthroughs, even if means resorting to crude prejudices.

Anyway. T-Mobile have announced that they'll be riding in a new kit for the 2006 Tour de France. It's still the hugely effeminate pink/white combination, so don't be expecting to be able to look like Jan without giving motorists fodder for shouting "poof" at you. But, in a gross act of appeasement, they've added a little blue line across the chest. We all know that blue is the universal colour of "boy".


You'll still look like a disgusting, unimaginative blob in it, don't worry.

Apart from it isn't all being done in the name of profits. It's actually a charity cause for UNICEF to raise funds for education in Africa, something that should really make us feel guilty for taking the piss earlier, but doesn't. One hundred percent of the seventy-five Euro sale price goes to the charity and the company has pledged 3,000 Euros for every stage the team wins. (And, in an alarming vote of no confidence, "something special" if they manage to get the overall.)

It's a good cause and, presumably, the more Africans T-Mobile manage to get educated the more people there are in the world to assemble complex mobile phones and work in call centres for a few pence a day.

Buy the new jersey here:
http://www.fanshop.t-mobile-team.com/output/controller.aspx?cid=212&detail=10&detail2=39