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[Football] Subbuteo, What team you have in the opening box ?
- Thread starter Leekbrookgull
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Remember the factory in Chiddingstone Causesway near Tonbridge as a kid.
Loved subbuteo but the setting up the pitch and accessories was more fun than the actual game!
It was this one I had. I suspect I was given it, as I can't think of any reason I would have bought it. Except of course for 'practice' games when they would regularly lose 23-0 to my Brighton team.
Screaming J
He'll put a spell on you
I bought bits and pieces as couldn't afford a boxed set, so started off with two teams, balls and goals and added a pitch later when I had the cash. First teams were the Albion and - from memory - Arsenal. Goodness knows why Arsenal, never liked them particularly!
Probably because they were red - and so a good colour clash.
Taybha
Whalewhine
Peru obviously.
Change at Barnham
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Ajax and Celtic were my favourite two Subbuteo teams.
I was gutted when Ajax played at the Amex this season in black instead of their classic red and white kit.
I was gutted when Ajax played at the Amex this season in black instead of their classic red and white kit.
Leeds.
My middle brother had Chelsea.
We also had Liverpool, Citeh, WBA, Wolves, Derby and Arse.
I still have a little notebook with all the scores.
Leeds.
This was 1969.
On the box I wrote Sprake, Cooper, Charlton, Reanney, Hunter, Gray, Bremner, Giles, Lorrimer, Clarke, Jones (Bates on the bench).
Later I added Jordan, Ellam, and McQueen
My middle brother had Chelsea.
We also had Liverpool, Citeh, WBA, Wolves, Derby and Arse.
I still have a little notebook with all the scores.
Leeds.
This was 1969.
On the box I wrote Sprake, Cooper, Charlton, Reanney, Hunter, Gray, Bremner, Giles, Lorrimer, Clarke, Jones (Bates on the bench).
Later I added Jordan, Ellam, and McQueen
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,599
I had the 74 version. The version I was promoted from Division 2 with in 1978.
I was playing kids two years above me and was hated by the 4th year. I came down faster than I went up- much to the joy of the older boys. My biggest achievement being to keep the reigning champion down to 0-2. Some of those kids played electric Subbuteo. Thinking about it, I reckon that match was lined up first on purpose.
One game I had a broken goalkeeper and the bastards wouldn't lend me one. So I had to forfeit.
And amazingly it was always the teams playing Leeds that suffered from the traditional leg-breaks.... Even their Subbuteo version were dirty.
And we had no superglue back then. The state of some of my players, bollock deep in boiled horse bone.
So you cheated
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,599
My parents bought me that, so must have been Christmas 1980. I just didn't get on with it and soon went back to the cloth.
Araldite. That was the glue of choice.
The scoreboard was great but otherwise I wasn’t impressed with Subbuteo cricket or rugby. Never owned them, though, just knew others who did.
Now you’re talking.
They have tried to revive it but I’ve seen the modern remake and it’s not a patch on the original, that was grrrrreat!!
jakarta
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As you say basic teams were red with white shorts and blue with white shorts.
Living in the North-west they were obviously Man Utd and Everton!
Living in the North-west they were obviously Man Utd and Everton!
Comrade Sam
Comrade Sam
I'm touched and your praise brought a tear to my eyes. I remember them with equal fondness. I tried to relive the subbuteo buzz with my daughters during lock down - they didn't bite so it all went back under the eves. I did make Tallulah a personalised BHA in a handmade box during the months of filling time during Covid. I was relieved we no longer wear Adidas as the triple stripes are now beyond my eyesight and steady hands.
