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Time for another pulp countdown, and today it's my top 10 sports depicted on Hot Hits album covers!

At #10: Association Football! Well did you ever?
At #9: motorcross! Brother Louie AND a Suzuki trials bike? I'm so there...
At #8: lawn tennis! I could ooh wacka doo wacka day all day you know...
At #7: the skeleton bob! Not sure it made Milwaukee famous; wasn't that Laverne and Shirley?
At #6: rugby! League or Union? More importantly the themes from Shaft AND the Onedin Line?? Crazy times...
At #5: the long jump. It's an unusual outfit for track and field, but you wear it well...
At #4: Formula 3! With those tyres you could pull some mouldy old doughnuts!
At #3: archery! Yes that's Carole Munro, and yes this includes The Young New Mexican Puppeteer. They're both class!
At #2: angling! Before pole dancing there was pole fishing, though this soundtrack would probably suit both...
And at #1: croquet! Stuck in the middle with you indeed!

More poptastic compilation albums by jaded session bands another time...
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