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All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit

This song was released in 1986 by Liverpool punk band Half Man Half Biscuit as the B side of their first single "The Trumpton Riots" - a song referencing the children's TV show. It was then included on their "Back Again in the DHSS" album a year later. The entire song, with exception of the first and last verses, is about Subbuteo:

Lyrics are copyright Half Man Half Biscuit and are reproduced here for encyclopaedic purposes:

There was one in a gang,
Who had Scalextric,
And because of that,
He thought he was better than you.
Everyday after school,
You'd go around there to play it,
Hoping to compete for some kind championship,
And it always took about 15 billion hours to set the track up.
And even when you did, the thing never seemed to work.

It was a dodgy transformer, again and again.
A dodgy transformer, again and again.
It was a dodgy transformer, again and again.
A dodgy transformer, cost 3 pounds 10.

So he sent his doting mother
Up the stairs with the stepladder,
To get the Subbuteo,
Out of the loft.
He had all the accessories,
Required for that big-match atmosphere.
The crowd and the dugout,
And the floodlights, too.
And you'd always get palmed off
With a headless centre-forward,
And a goalkeeper with no arms,
And a face like his.

And he'd managed to get hold of
A Dukla Prague Away Kit,
His uncle owned a sport shop
And he'd kept it to one side.
And after only five minutes
You'd be down to ten men,
Because he'd sent off your right back for taking the base from under his left winger.
Come to half-time, you were losing, four-nil.
Each and every goal, a hotly disputed penalty.

So you smash up the floodlights
And the game 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.

And now he's working
In a job with a future.
He hands me my Giro
Every two weeks.
And me, I'm on the lookout
For a proper transformer.

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