subbutteo

Everyone had a Lou Macari, short player where the airfix glue had melted his alegs a little when attempting a mother tramping accident.

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Pumphol has put a set down his trousers :D

Got it one christmas, and was looking forward to it.

Greatest load of sh!t i've ever got for christmas. Tried to 'play' it once, then it went in the bin.

old sets unused or only ussed once fetch £300 now :0

Ranks along with monopoly as one of the few games where no one plays by the official rules. Flick to kick means flicking a la releasing a bogey using a thumb in my opinion, subbuteo rules counts these as illegal preferring a nancy flick with finger alone.

you needed your dad to pin your pitch on to a board

My grandad did that for me, bpp :)

I had stands, fans, floodlights, a scoreboard, perimeter fence, dugouts with managers and coaches, corner kick takers, throw-in takers, a TV gantry with cameramen and commentators...

Used to put the pitch up on a 6 foot snooker table.

My most obscure team was Fluminense and I also had Nantes.

^^ Fluminense very specialist - not like Notts County, Newcastle, Juve eall as one LOL

hobby hawk

didnt they have one set for several teams. i seem to remember sheff utd doubling up some obscure south american team. and norwich home and west brom away was the same set i think.

Armenia Belefield (German's) were the closest I could get to my own team. I had the stand and floodlights.

used to play on a**pile carpet matches always abandoned after 10 mins :-(

remember asking for the new electric scoreboard after the 78 world cup.
was well chuffed with it but a little disappointed that it wasnt actually electric.

Had Sub-batea..........players heads kept coming off...

how did it become so popular? it was **e
players got broken wholesale

my glued legs/torso XI were unbeatable. maybe the extra weight ?

amount of flick **ers you couldn't make up though :|

it's a flick ffs not a general full hand manipulation (that's extra)..

Joe Jordan 19 Dec 14:37
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I told you that in strict confidence :(

and then STRIKER came along (complete with torso twisting goalies).

Anyone remember it?

Yeah, i had striker ,pushed there heads down to kick the ball, then came big league where you pulled there legs back and let go

anybody remember a tv programme on bbc1 about subbuteo? im beginning to think i imagined it cos nobody remembers it.

I was mint & played in the UK Championships one year - lost to that lad from Brimingham with the long finger nail. Never had a grandstand. Used to use Melchester Rovers (i.e. Liverpool which my Mam painted a thin yellow stripe on using a**tail stick & Humbrol enamel paint). Happy days :)

Playing for Real?

yeh that rings a bell. the team was umm real...hull or sumink stupid i think?

falkirk

Still got the figure of the England mascot, old bloke i think called Ken ?, in a red jacket and top hat waving a rattle.

It was that cr^p that nobody ever played with me so used to play it on my own

I ran leagues .. the lot :(

lol real falkirk was that it? quality show, shame its not on dvd. yes i did just look!! :)

Two other games I remember fondly were the horse racing game Escalado, and a dice based statistical football game called Logacta Chart Soccer or something similar.

^ Jesus Christ, logacta. Labour of love, that! I also played a game called 'Bryplay' which was a card-based football game based on each side having an ability of 'A' (Real Madrid etc) through to 'D' (total no hopers).

Logacta was excellent - used to play it for hours on end with a friend. Even had European competitions where I first got to hear of teams like Roda JCK / AZ Alkmaar etc.

pumphy
:D

Cork - played in all black

was that the only paint you had :^0

Max and Paddy 19 Dec 14:55

I had stands, fans, floodlights, a scoreboard, perimeter fence, dugouts with managers and coaches, corner kick takers, throw-in takers, a TV gantry with cameramen and commentators...

Mr Kenwright will be in touch asap.

for a new manager .

and the pitch :D

I remember as a kid (and being a Blackpool fan) we couldn't find a Blackpool subbutteo team anywhere in the local shops, so we went into Blackpool itself to try and find one. Could we find a Blackpool team in Blackpool itself?!?! Could we buggery!

My mum and dad got me subbuteo target man by mistake the one where the box made up the pitch like a five a side stadium, ended up being so much better,my m8s pitches used to crease and scrumple up, plus with the pitch having sides on it never went out of play

My Dad made me a hard table with a cardboard surrounding to put the pitch on. It had 4 legs.

Spent many a teenage year playing Subbuteo Leagues with my best M8 and had 50 teams including Brazil and the green of Plymouth.

Sadly I did commentaries on a Phillips Tape Recorder with its 2 reels and I played for 7 hours every week on my own.

My Darling Dad eventually said "I wish I had never made that bl++dy table!" lol

Still got a black fingernail from flicking too hard. ]:)

the astro roll up pitch was the dogs bllx

but cost about £20

my dad taped mine to a sheet of plywood instead :(

just to prove my mam and dads complete lack of any knowledge of what kids want, one of my teams i got in the green extra team box was kershaw from the german bundesleage 2nd division,I was heartbroken as I had asked santa for leeds strip away , yellow with blue and white stripes on sleeve, my dad said some german kid called adolph schmitt probably had my leeds team and santa was a fool

^^^ cruel logistic**-up X-(

forgot about my scoreboard!

and i used to do full league programmes on my own. me versus me. was funny, but sometimes the team i wanted to win didn't necessarily prevail.

and i used to spend hours just practising at set pieces. swerving it round walls and trying to score direct from corners - you could bounce it in off the goalie's aris.

my nanna stood on my floodlights and broke them - boxing day morning :(