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land Goddard created quite a fuss last year With his Whithread nominated dehut. Ho/iiage to a Fir/rig Sgt/ad. hut on the eVIdence of th:s disappointing follow-tin. he still has ltlattl‘. to prove. Using the Stalinist Soviet Union of tfliiti as a hackdrop. Goddard attempts to examine hoth [)()}:Il(1£ll and personal themes in bittersweet comedic fashion through the build up to an all- important tootha'l match hotneen Spartak Moscow ithe workers team) and their city rivals Dynamo ithe secret poiice TOélllll. Spartak's coaching pair of Copic and Tomsky are the slapstick douhle act focus of the story leading up to the hig day. But Goddard's heaw-handed approach to dialogue and plot propulsion. coupled With the thinness of his characterisation. makes Dynamo read more like Carry on up the Gu/ags than any kind of deeper. thought-provoking tragi-comcxty lwhich is clearly what the author is attemptingi. A shoddy and slapdash attaii. this is far from dynamic. (Doug Johnstonei
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Thank God lor somehodyi for hands like Trumaiis Water. Much like a CKY 2K dootus. they really do not give a fuck. and this ontological truth is eVident in every good— note-gone-had on this devastating LP.
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