Hang tough – Gladiators get personal

Have you ever had that dream where you are a contestant on Gladiators? Ace is after you up the ropes while Ulrika looks on jealously from the sidelines.

Or sometimes Hunter is donking you on the helmet with his pugil stick and you feel you are just about to wobble off your podium.

And then you wake up and there is a cotton-wool bud for your ears on the bedside table.

The Gladiators Annual 1994 was a huge Christmas bestseller – in 1993! Such was the epic mystery of the decade that shirts forgot.

These deeply personal messages from Ace, Hunter and Nightshade are worth hundreds of pounds to 90s fans – and thousands to ones called Paul.