subbuteo. football, on a table, with a giant ball

[terry nutkins]

i used to love this game

i had about 50 teams, the stadiums, an astro turf pitch AND a normal one (both pinned to a board)

used to be in a league and entered tournaments, even used to put furniture polish on the base of my players so they would slide for miles (sad i know but i was 12)

so imagine my dismay when i saw a new subbuteo set in argos with CARDBOARD PLAYERS and a crap new logo

NOOOOOOOO! :mad:

(i always imagine what it would be like to have a giant ball in a football match, like in subbuteo. i suppose to peter crouch it would look normal size)

[slept in]

That sounds rubbish. No wonder kids are killing each other all over the bloody place. Now do they have a Subbuteo equivalent in Barcelona?!

[Little Beaver]

All I remember about subbueto was discovering the calves-up remains of my Dynamic Number 10 Shirt™ ("he covered every blade of grass on the pitch") embedded in my left knee, usually two fours after I'd finished playing.

[Solid State]

For a short time, around the age of 11 or 12, I too LIVED for Subbutteo.

[iamrobd]

Here's a fact that I know you will love Tezza. Its got puns and a bird of prey in it.

Subbuteo is in fact named after the latin name for the bird of prey the Hobby. The latin for a Hobby is Falco Subbuteo. Subbuteo is a Hobby. Get it?

[Ichi.One]

"When I was a child I played subbuteo on
My table then I graduate to studio one" :-D

can't imagine playing it as a kid
is it because it rains so much in the uk that you
had to play football on the kitchentable ?
never undstood this "subbuteo"

[Jolyon]

i was still playing it up to my early 20s!!!

[Justin Chodzko]

I remember Blow Football were you ended up dizzy & hyperventilated after 10 minutes.

[RD]

i still have about 8 teams, most of which i found 2nd hand about 20 years ago.

apart from the handpainted & numbered 70's villa team i have a nice liverpool away (white shirts red shorts) & celtic. ohh & i have a set of goals & the pitch!

anyone remember subbuteo rugby? i had that too....totaly stupid but i loved the kicker who was 4 times the size of the rest. you pushed his head down & the right leg lifted. also the scrum was weird a kind of flattened plastic rugby ball with a hole in the top. you put the ball in the hole & it would randomly come out on one side. can't remeber how the line out worked...mental

[terry nutkins]

Here's a fact that I know you will love Tezza. Its got puns and a bird of prey in it.

Subbuteo is in fact named after the latin name for the bird of prey the Hobby. The latin for a Hobby is Falco Subbuteo. Subbuteo is a Hobby. Get it?

yep i knew this

puns + bird of prey x football = :cool: