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Flick to Kick: an illustrated history of Subbuteo
door Daniel Tatarsky
'A later trip on to vinyl for Subbuteo
was on Half Man Half Biscuit's beautifully titled track Áll I want for
Christmas is a Dukla prague Away Kit', from the B-side of the twelve-inch EP 'The
trumpton Riots'(1986). While the Undertones had given the game only two lines,
the Birkenhead band gave it a whole two verses:
| And
he'd managed to get hold of a Dukla prague away kit
Cause his uncle owned
a sports shop and he'd kept it to one side
And after only five minutes you'd
be down to ten men
Cause he'd sent off your right back for taking the base
from under his left winger
And come to half-time you were losing four-nil
Each and every goal a hotly disputed penalty
So you'd smash up the floodlights
and the match was abandoned
And the dog would bark and you'd be banned from
his house
And your travelling army of synthetic supporters
Would be taken
away from you and thrown in the bin |
It was probably not the best example to set young Subbuteo players
but that didn't stop the record spending several weeks in the indie charts. It
didn't make the main charts.
The Dukla Prague kit is not that dissimilar from
the one The Undertones used for their single cover (similar to the Roy of the
Rovers kit) and is now a collector's item.
