However, it has also attracted criticism for celebrating obnoxious lad culture and sexist content.
James Savage, Stoute's travelling head lad, said: "We were glad there wasn't much rain last night.
NUS President Toni Pearce recently accused UK institutions of ignoring lad culture, and in the highly marketised US, universities are often criticised for covering up violent crime in order to maintain enrolments.
There's a feeling that lad culture at UK universities is on the increase, and if that's the case, it's the product of several intersecting trends.
"But when the head lad came back into his box, he just thought he took a lame step.
In the past, he has been critical of 1990s "lad culture", something that he contributed to, albeit inadvertently, but he has also said that he used to be "one of those kids who couldn't keep his mouth shut" - which still seems to hold true.
He even went to a lad at work's wedding".
In Sunday league you can tell what a referee's going to be like from the moment they come into the car park and here comes this young lad, you know, a really skinny fella.
Bocuse is a great dinner companion – he told me of learning his trade as a young lad during the Occupation, how he was taught to kill pigs and veal calves, and later when he joined the Resistance, how he tried to kill Germans.
This tender-faced wisp of a lad, with a cloud of long, soft hair, is now memorialised in a famous photo.
The Bikers, however, who are only half north-western, make a white sauce with flour, milk and cream; Manchester girl Boggiano mixes her cheese with creme fraiche; and Kentish lad Bates goes for a kind of rich, cheesy quiche made from eggs and double cream, which I enjoy inordinately – but it works better as a cold, hand-held pie than the warm dinner I'm hoping for.
