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Paul Merson left fuming after learning his debut Strictly Come Dancing dance would be to controversial and 'racist' football anthem Vindaloo
It was the controversial World Cup anthem which was deemed to be racist and a favourite of football hooligans.
Vindaloo, performed by Fat Les, was the unofficial anthem in the 1998 World Cup in France – in which Merson played – and was later deemed to be racist and a favourite of football hooligans. But it was tinged with racist connotations as the inspiration behind it was said to have been a heated row that Allen had with Asian writer Farrukh Dhondy in 1989 on the BBC's now-defunct panel series The Late Show. And in 2016, the BBC's own presenter Nick Ahad, whose father is Bangladeshi, told how a group of white men wound their windows down and started chanting Vindaloo at him.
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