Album Review: Armchair Loyal - “All You Need Is Ndlovu”
This album, I dare say, is one that’s very much for a niche audience. Imagine Idles with the politics replaced by a love of '90s football. For fans of a certain age (including this long-suffering Hartlepool United supporter) there's certainly plenty of wry chuckles here right from opener Play Football With Your Heads ' lyrics such as - "Before Zayn Malik, there was Frank Yallop!/Before Jeremy Vine there was Brian Kilcline!" . This harks back to a time before the Premier League was a money man's playground and ordinary working class people were priced out of going to top flight games and you'd actually see the players drinking with the fans in the pub rather than throwing champagne parties at their mansions. Second track A Cliche Of Gaffers namechecks the likes of Steve McClaren and Alan Pardew and goes through the A to Z of football bollocks-speak while Young, Gifted and Right Back takes a humourous look at the life of lower league journeyman football...