The team you’ve never seen play but everybody knows what their away shirt looks like:
Half Man Half Biscuit are massive Tranmere Rovers fans. Wikipedia says:
Who Ate All The Pies had this to say about the band and this track :
“In 1986, cult Birkenhead punk-folk band Half Man Half Biscuit – one of John Peel’s favourite all-time groups – released their infamous debut single, ‘The Trumpton Riots’. On the B-side was the almost-as-infamous track, ‘All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit’, a wonderful study of adolescent rivalry and table football.”
Sample lyrics: “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..”
Also – The band performing the song on the Old Grey Whistle Test:
HMHB went back to the Xmas theme with this track from their Trouble Over Bridgewater album, released in 2000. A purposely clichéd tune which will make you sing along (another cliché) along with with clichéd lyrics and the topper to all this – some children singing the chorus. You can’t help yourself and you will be humming it after listening:
Half Man Half Biscuit – It’s Clichéd to Be Cynical at Christmas
I love HMHB, and they have sung a fair number of songs about football clubs.
“I was a teenage armchair Honved faaaaaaaaaan!”