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« Reply #15 on: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 10:45:32 » |
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I still have about 20 teams complete in their boxes, a couple of pitches etc. Best ball was The Italia World Cup one.
Played in a Subbeteo League in my youth, now that was competitive, with loads of cheats.
We played a few Christmas's ago with mates, best football game of all time for me.
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« Reply #16 on: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 20:38:08 » |
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Subbuteo. Fuck me that brings back memories. When I was a kid, me and my mates had the works. Pitches pasted onto chipboard with fence surround, world cup goals, adidas Tango balls, the lot.
Some of this stuff goes for silly money nowadays. I had a 1981 FA Cup final set with the Man City and Spurs teams, and one sold a while ago for something like £180!
I think most of my stuff ended up being hoovered up by the old dear.
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« Reply #17 on: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 20:59:44 » |
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I used to love putting a bit if side on that ball....curling it into the net with a bit of bend. And he draw for the subby FA Cup............Crewe won it one year  |
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« Reply #18 on: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 21:33:11 » |
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I got a second hand set when I was young (late 70s) and promptly repainted a lot of the teams, turned out they were old teams from the late 60's and probably worth some. Just added more and more teams throughout the 80's - some amazing kits back then. I also was lucky enough to have an astropitch which was quality.I used to love the different types of goals you could buy - world cup ones, different coloured nets.
It was the game I played most as a kid, world cups, leagues, cups, absolutley loved it.
Probably kept a lot of super glue companies in business though.
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« Reply #19 on: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 21:37:57 » |
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Smacking that ball through a wall......and the keeper ...on the end of a giant pole pushing it round a post.
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« Reply #20 on: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 21:42:44 » |
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polishing the players bases with a bit of Pledge - used to make them slideeeeeeee.............
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« Reply #21 on: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 21:45:58 » |
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Me and my brother had a massive set which my dad got for us 2nd hand. Glued the pitch in ply board and played for hours. Floods, hoardings the lot, we even had that bloke that dressed up in the union jack suit?  ? Wasn't he a perv? |
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« Reply #22 on: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 21:48:48 » |
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And the ball...bigger than all the players.
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« Reply #23 on: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 21:50:25 » |
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anyone else been watching the top 100 toys on Ch4 ?? I know I am old but is it me or do they not make toys like they used to ??
Don't get me wrong - I love the whole xbox/ps3 thing but where is your subbuteo/action man/meccano of the present day ?
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« Reply #24 on: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 21:51:29 » |
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And the ball...bigger than all the players.
Used to love the addidas tango ball - plus they once brought out a sponge ball which was funny as fuck |
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« Reply #25 on: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 21:58:55 » |
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also Roy of the Rovers had "Mike's mini men" which was a story based on table football. ah fuck I'm getting all nostalgic now
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« Reply #26 on: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 23:49:26 » |
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Some of this stuff goes for silly money nowadays.
As a kid I was more interested in quantity than quality, so I ended up with a shit load of obscure Subbuteo teams bought on the cheap as no other fucker wanted to buy them. Which turned out to be a good move, sold them off a few years back and got £100+ for some of them. |
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« Reply #27 on: Sunday, December 18, 2011, 00:12:57 » |
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Me and my brother had a massive set which my dad got for us 2nd hand. Glued the pitch in ply board and played for hours. Floods, hoardings the lot, we even had that bloke that dressed up in the union jack suit? ? Wasn't he a perv? Had to rack my brain a bit Flash but his name was Ken Bailey and he lived in B'mth, departed this earth now. No getting involved in the perv bit |
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« Reply #28 on: Sunday, December 18, 2011, 08:02:05 » |
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Subbuteo was so popular the BBC made a TV drama based around it, playing for Real (1988) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397004/. I think it was rubbish. Subbuteo is so named because the creator originally wanted to call the game The Hobby. After being refused trademark against such a generic name, he instead chose the latin name of The Hobby bird, a type of falcon - falco subbutteo (translation "smaller than a buzzard", a buzzard being butteobutteo). Its a good job he didn't use the latin for the Australian Hobby, Falco longipennis. |
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