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Amazon, with their unerring sense of product targetting sent me an e-mail this morning suggesting that I buy this piece of filth. Notice how a certain Sham 69 song has been slipped in amongst all the other well known 'cricket anthems'. Skinheads and cricket: a marriage made in heaven. Expect to see Sham feature on every compilation aimed at nostalgic adults from here until Christmas.

They never seem to bring out the compilation I want though: It would be called The Very Best Sad Dad Album in the World Ever and feature a carefully selected mix of rare early punk and metally Goth type stuff, screaming electronics, and Ennio Morricone film scores. The TV ad would be great: Home in Surburbia with typical sit-com type dad opening his Christmas present. Cut to fast edits of grainy footage from Stacia to Nick Fiend to Lee Van Cleef. The final shot has a pastiche of the old cassette ad starring Pete Murphy only, rather than looking cool, Sad Dad is slumped in an armchair drooling and clutching an empty bottle of gin to his chest.

I'm going to shut up about Sham 69 now, but I will just say that Martin is spot on when he says that the UK Subs were a lot better. Which chorus would you rather sing along to, 'Hersham Boys' or 'All I wanna know is does she suck'?

Finally, who would have guessed that those clever record company bods would have put 10cc's 'Dreadlock Holiday' on a cricket album? I heard it for the first time in years in a pub the other day (The Compleat Angler in Norwich, should you want to ensure your ears remain unsullied) and it really must win the prize for the most racist piece of crap ever to grace the Top Twenty.