Jeremy Clarkson has said that despite it being his nearest team geographically his son did not want to become an Oxford United supporter.

The broadcaster said when his son was young and announced that he’d like to support a football team, he told him that “he shouldn’t just support whatever team happened to be doing well at that moment, because choosing a football club is a decision for life”.

“To make doubly sure he didn’t go with Manchester United, I then said he needed to have some geographical connection with the club," he wrote in his latest Sunday Times column.

“He was unhappy about this, because the nearest proper outfit was Oxford. ‘I’ve seen them, Dad,’ he explained, ‘and they were terrible.’”

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Mr Clarkson, who chronicles his efforts at running Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington on his hit TV show Clarkson's Farm, wrote that he then told his son that they lived half the time in London.

“It took a little while, but eventually we got to where I’d been steering him all along: Chelsea.”

Mr Clarkson also said he “couldn’t care less” who owns Chelsea next or why Roman Abramovich bought the club .

“So you’re going to burn everything you ever bought from Topshop now that you know Sir Philip Green may be a wrong ‘un? You’re going to put your Royal family tea towels in the bin because of Prince Andrew? And you’re going to unread all those Jeffrey Archer novels and unsee all those Harvey Weinstein movies?”

He added: “I hope, of course, that Chelsea is now bought by someone nice. Gyles Brandreth perhaps. Or Pam Ayres. But I also hope it’s bought by an arms dealer who has enough spare cash to keep us fighting for glory in Europe. The truth is, I don’t really care either way.”

He said the main point about football was he spent time with his son and going for a pint and a curry afterwards.

Read the full column at https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jeremy-clarkson-pam-ayres-pol-pot-chelsea-roman-abramovich-comment-3fclzs5gk