Subbuteo

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terry

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Did anyone else play this? We used to have hours and hours of fun with this. Commentaries, leagues the lot.

Sainsbury's gave me a Yorkie Subbuteo egg, presumably for being a good customer!
 
I may be one of the rare ones but I never played subbuteo at all. I always wanted to but had to make do with lego and transformers.
 
Played Subbuteo a bit,but preferred the Cricket game where u bowled the ball down a little chute,pulled back and forwards a little lever for the batsman to hit the ball and the fielders caught the ball in a little cup attached to their feet.
The scoreboards were quite nifty as well.
 
A few of the kids round our way played Subbuteo a lot, regular comps etc. I used to do ok until one of my strikers ended up with two little blobs of super glue round his ankles, due to a career threatening injury!

Arkwright! Played thet too mate! Was it called 'Test Match' or somert?
 
Yeah I had the cricket too. You held a handle horizontally and the bat was attached at a 90 degree angle and you twisted the handle to hit the ball. You are right about the fielders. I'm not sure about the bowlers. Can't remember them at all.

The football changed and they brought in small balls and chutes and things. The small balls were better. Yes we got load sof injuries and used Airfix glue to repair them. You'd bring one back on too soon and he'd keel over if you were too rough.

There was rugby too I think but I never played that.
 
Ther was a little cup attached to the bowlers arm which u placed the ball in,you then pushed it back then forward and the balll rolled down the chute directing it towards the batsman.

I believe it was called test match and was manufactured by a company called Peter Pan if I recall.
 
"There was rugby too I think but I never played that. "

We never played anything that the Welsh were better than us at... :shy:
 
Ye sounded like ye had a mad time as kids.....thank god I didnt grow up in England (for this and many reasons!) ;)
 
No there was a Subbuteo Cricket. Not Test Match. It was a proper Subbuteo game on a green cloth pitch.

Some people have said that the rugby was good. It had some sort of scrum machine.
 
Bought the game for my two sons some years back.Spent ages getting Spurs and Arsenal teams and the whole shebang.
First time we played we movedfrom the dining table to the carpet because the youngest was having trouble reaching across the table. Unfortunately the dog came in and sat on one of the goals. No.1 son ran across the pitch to chase the dog away and managed to wipe out most of the Spurs team by treading on them.Typical!

Anyway it's a crap game!
 
Subbuteo was amazing, not just because i happened to be really really good at it (i'll be rubbish now mind) with the different teams, were you Juventus or Grimsby?

Manchester City or Coventry City?
Hibernian or Werder Bremen?

All the really obscure foreign teams - Prague(s), Croatian teams.
Had a huge tournament in Y6 of school on the astro-turf one, now i seem to have lost all the subbuteo balls and the goals are broke but still got a couple of pitches and the players.

Also managed to invent so many new games (not just the rugby one there was) and could race the players round the edge of the pitch.

Got me all excited now.

Martin
 
I used to have a big pile of Lego bricks behind the goal, singing 'knees up mother brown' and when I scored they'd have a right old bundle onto the pitch.
 
It makes me think of the classic song "All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit" by Half Man Half Biscuit.

There was one of a gang
Who had Scalextric,
and because of that;
He thought he was better than you,
Every day after school,
You'd go around there to play him,
Hoping to compete in some kind championship,
but it always took about 15 billion hours to set the track up.
And even when you did, the thing never seemed to work.

It was a dodgy transformer, again and again.
It was a dodgy transformer, again and again.
It was a dodgy blue mass, again and again.
It was a dodgy transformer, cost 3 pounds 10.

So he sent his doting mother
Up the stairs with the stepladder,
To get the subutteo
Out of the loft.
It had all the accessories
Required for that big-match atmosphere.
The crowd and the dugout,
And the floodlights, too.
but you'd always get palmed off
With a headless center-forward,
And a goal-keeper with no arms,
And a face like his.
And he'd managed to get hold of
A Dukla-Prague Away Kit,
cause his uncle owned a sport shop
And he'd kept it to one side.
And after only five minutes
You'd be down to ten men,
cause he'd sent off your right back
for taking the base from under his left-winger
Come to half-time, you were losing, four-nil.
Each and every goal, a hotly disputed penalty.
So you smash up the floodlights
And the match was abandoned,
And the dog would bark
And you'd be banned from his house.
And your travelling army
Of synthetic supporters
Would be taken away from you
And thrown in the bin.

And now he's working
In a job with a future.
He hands me my Gyro (as in gyroscope, not "hero")
Every two weeks.
And me, I'm on the lookout
For a proper transformer.
 
Nearly put Dukla Prague as one of the Prague teams but by the time i came to have Subbuteo i think they'd gone out of existence.
 
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