91. School Team Lyrics - Chumbawamba

I always wanted to play 

In the school football team 

But the coach said I wasn't fast enough 

I wasn't no good it seemed 

I used to watch them practice 

But I never got a game 

I went to every trial they had 

But every time I failed 

I didn't want to be Pele 

Unlike all my mates 

That wasn't my ambition 

I just wanted once to play 

The football team would travel out 

Playing other schools 

But they'd never take me on the bus 

Although I begged them to 

Of course they'd all return 

With talk of Robbo's goals 

And how little Nobby Forder 

Took the defense all on his own 

All the ninety minutes were relived 

Well, that's how to me it seemed 

As I sat in awe and watched myself 

Playing in my dreams 

In my dreams... 

Playing in my dreams... 

In my dreams... 

But never once the real thing 

They'd never let me play 

They just said I wasn't good enough 

And I'd just get in the way 

But then one day it happened 

A real scorcher in mid-March 

Paul Robbo broke his leg 

And Nobby Forder holidayed in France 

Kevin Soaper and Big Nose Duggan 

They both caught chicken pox 

They were both at home confined to bed 

To nurse their itchy spots 

It was the all-important semi-final 

Second leg of the cup 

Against local rivals Queensbury Boy's School 

They were one nil up 

The coach turned to me in desperation 

And he pleaded for my help 

"This is it, your big chance David! 

Can you make the numbers up?" 

Well I grinned from ear to ear 

And I must have looked quite chuffed 

As I seized my opportunity 

And told him to get stuffed!