Half Man Half Biscuit - All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit Reaction

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@octaviussludberry9016 8 ай бұрын

I work with Neil, the bass player. I'm a huge fan and did a proper double take when I saw him at work. I still can't talk to him because, you know, heroes.

@rogerbillings5081 Жыл бұрын

Love this song! Exactly describes the childhood Subbuteo experience! Lol. National Shite Day and Knobheads On Quiz Shows are another two great HMHB tracks. Last lines refer to his friend now working in the DHSS unemployment office and him picking up his Giro - unemployment pay - every two weeks.

@paulcasey5486 10 ай бұрын

i went to school with the lead singer nigel he was a great laugh in school great react.

@Sandy-dd4le Жыл бұрын

A proper Xmas song.

@kevinlakeman5043 Жыл бұрын

Holy shazzbot! Half Man Half Biscuit came into my life in college. A friend picked up a used copy of "Back In the DHSS" cuz of the manic cover. It became the favorite of many a drunken, stoned, whathaveya evening on Transylvania Park.

@arkroyalrifemoonbasealpha6101 Жыл бұрын

I can`t believe you`re reviewing the great HMHB fantastic band

@kennymcleod3016 Жыл бұрын

As you get into HMHB you will realise there are a lot of niche uk early eighties references so that might make it difficult for you but they are a very special band for alt music fans of that era (like me)

@TheSealords Жыл бұрын

Ok, I have a fair deal to say about this! For one, as a kid, I had a Scalextric track (slot cars) and I had a dodgy transformer as well! Secondly, I played Subbuteo as a kid and have an unopened box in my garage. It's a table soccer game. And finally, my brother has a sense of humour, so he found a store online that sold replicas of the old Dukla Prague away kit. I now have a Dukla Prague away kit replica in my cupboard. It's a strange yellow shirt with some purply logo in the middle and purply sleeves.

@SPKdesign1 Жыл бұрын

TCR was far better.

@outernothingness1177 Жыл бұрын

HMHB are like nothing else. And for the most part, that's a good thing.

@davidellis5141 Жыл бұрын

A Kit is essentially a jersey. A true Toronto Mapleleafs 🍁 fan would want both the home & away jersey 🏒.

@hanierfamily Жыл бұрын

Well, of course. Or a Habs fan.

@davidellis5141 Жыл бұрын

@hanierfamily When I was a kid the Habs of Montreal were awesome with Guy Lafleur & Ken Dryden they had flair versus the broadstreet bullies of The Philadelphia Flyers !

@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering Жыл бұрын

🤦‍♂️ more of this pish ? Good night all 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@cookinfat 11 ай бұрын

This song is the story of my childhood

@milesnixon9554 Ай бұрын

I went to a sports shop in Prague to ask for a Dukla Prague away kit and the feller looked at me like I was mental.

@groovygregsmith Ай бұрын

Eeh you made me spit me tea out, well done lad.

@milesnixon9554 Ай бұрын

@@groovygregsmith Your comment well cheered me up. Was a bit pissed off before. Thanks feller.

@jonathancole833 Жыл бұрын

This song warns of the dangers of table football megalomania, something I almost succumbed to in the early 1980s.

@taxibeforesunsetclips7629 Жыл бұрын

I've got this on a tape somewhere. Think I recorded John Peel one night. I thought it was pretty cool, my mates thought I was off my rocker.

@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis. Жыл бұрын

To help you non-U.K. people out a 'Scalextric' set was an electric racing car game either run by batteries or transformer plugged into an electricial socket (outlet). 'Subbuteo' is a soccer game, with a mat (field) and goals either end, played with pieces which were models of players on a base with a semicircular bottom that you'd flicked onto the ball to 'kick' it, you could get sets of these pieces/men representing different teams of players.

@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering Жыл бұрын

“ Flick it .. to Kick it “.. 😅 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis. Жыл бұрын

@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering 👍😂

@groovygregsmith Жыл бұрын

How the Hell do you get half of this? Glad you liked it though.

@teanosuger Жыл бұрын

I buy my Mother Joy Division oven gloves….they’re very good

@TheoZoffrok 5 ай бұрын

I don't know if you've done My Perfect Cousin by The Undertones, but that also refers to the football game referred to here: Even at the age of ten Smart boy Kevin was a smart boy then He always beat me at Subbuteo Cos he flicked to kick And I didn't know...

@hanierfamily 5 ай бұрын

They were both great songs. We don't remember that game where we come from.

@jabbathehut656 Жыл бұрын

OK you have started down the the Half man half biscuit rabbit hole. you have a long way to fall yet. This is a very early track. Try these for the different vibes of HMHB The light at the end of the tunnel, National shite day, What is Chatteris, Oblong of dreams, Alehouse Fussball, Midnight mass murder, What made columbia famous, lord herefords knob, 24 hour garage people

@colrhodes377 Жыл бұрын

This is the kind of song that Victoria Wood would've done, but nor as well done.

@kevinlakeman5043 Жыл бұрын

Never got into this one. Doesn't keep your interest for long before drifting off on some odd turn. Much prefer stuff like "Reflections In a Flat", Joy Division Oven Gloves, or Sealclubbing.

@thereunionparty Жыл бұрын

Kudos on being probably the only music reactors to feature Half Man Half Biscuit. I think your research on Dukla Prague is slightly awry though. In the football (soccer) playing nations, replica football kits are quite the thing. Fans wear them though, either the team they support or maybe other foreign or international teams. (It's nothing to do with "fussball"). A Dukla Prague away kit would have been quite an obscure collector's item back in the day. As you say, it's a fun song about the frustration of chilhood/teenage games, which were never as good as they looked in the tv adverts. I think it also refers to having a "friend" who is more well off than you, and who is destined to be in a superior role when you leave school. It reminds me a bit of "My Perfect Cousin" by the Northern Irish group The Undertones. Incidentally, both HMHB and The Undertones were particular favourites of the legendary British DJ John Peel, who was a champion of many less commercial or alternative bands.

@timarmstrong3251 Жыл бұрын

Dukla Prague were an absolutely garbage team from Czechoslovakia as was. The idea that anyone would want a Dukla Prague home kit for Subbuteo would be silly enough, but an away kit? And that's the joke. Though if you go to a HMHB gig half the audience will be wearing them! And yes, Scalextric never worked. It was a dodgy transformer - again and again. Thanks for this, it's a very early HMHB classic. They are still going strong and amazingly are probably more successful and well known now than they were in their pomp. That's where 6 dates a year gigging and refusing to perform when Tranmere Rovers are at home can get you. Nigel Blackwell for Prime Minister!

@jonathancole833 Жыл бұрын

I seem to remember that Dukla Prague were an Army-sponsored club - I don’t think they exist anymore. They almost knocked Manchester United out of the European Cup Winners Cup in 1983.

@derekwilson6612 8 ай бұрын

They were the army team. I saw them when Hearts played them in 86. We were robbed in the away leg but when the home fans have guns you don't argue too much.

@groovygregsmith Ай бұрын

Vatican Broadside.