Right Up Sunday

[steve]

Great story! Love a bit of trivia. Was wondering about the Kingstonian connection. Think this needs to go on the relevant wiki page(s), including Prolapse artist page. 

Pretty sure I remember seeing that duck dance on TV. (Alas, can't find it on YouTube.)

Cheers,

SW

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, RobF <robfleay@...> wrote:
>
> On 17 February 2011 16:47, Dr Mango <dr_mango2004@...> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > > Peel mentions trying to rope in some celebrities to give post-match
> > reports, but did any ever happen?
> > See the wiki:
> > http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Football_%28Guest_Reviewers%29
> >
> >
> In the interests of trivia - I noticed that Mick from Prolapse did several
> of these match reports, but I couldn't figure out the Kingstonian
> connection, so being in a band with one of Prolapse, I asked him about it
> and he said:
> 
> Cherry Red sponsored Kingstonian, so we would get in for free and sit in the
> directors box, We followed their FA Cup run that season, Dover, Brighton and
> then sadly knocked out by Aylesbury of all people!  After the Brighton game
> (1st round proper), there was an old chap in the bar, who said he'd been
> following them for 80 years and this was the happiest day of his life!  The
> Aylesbury game actually made it onto A Question of Sport what happened next
> as the Aylesbury team did a duck dance in celebration, which may well have
> been one of the earliest mass novelty celebrations.
>