Subbuteo

[Protein Junkie]

I was lucky to have a brother just a bit younger than me.must have been early 70’s and we had a league of about 12 teams every year.
Home and away matches, league table too.
Fast forward to about 10 years ago. Me and me Dad who is now 84 delve into EBay and bid for loads of the old cardboard teams. Red and blue easy to get and end up with a dozen. Off we go again with the League.
Stopped about six year ago.

 

[Protein Junkie]

I was lucky to have a brother just a bit younger than me.must have been early 70’s and we had a league of about 12 teams every year.
Home and away matches, league table too.
Fast forward to about 10 years ago. Me and me Dad who is now 84 delve into EBay and bid for loads of the old cardboard teams. Red and blue easy to get and end up with a dozen. Off we go again with the League.
Stopped about six year ago.

Awarded to myself this time

 

[Impeccable One]

I was always so jealous of people who had their pitch on a board! Made it seem like a top flight pitch in comparison to my Sunday league effort with its lumps and bumps! .

Not jealous of mine. My dad was shit at DIY, and used a crap piece of plyboard. After less than a year it warped to fuck and everything rolled to the middle. It ended up like a Wimbledon game :O

 

[dickie davies]

I loved subbuteo in the 80s. I obviously had city teams but also had brazil, everton and sheff weds for no reason whatsoever

There was a shop in stockport called, i think, Toys n Hobbies? On princess street. That was my subbuteo stockist of choice

Back in the 70's the place to buy subbuteo teams in Stockport was Vic Moores on Wellington Road
They had a fire and all fire damaged stock was reduced to clear
You could pick up Subbuteo teams for 10p

 

[Vicmeldrew666]

I had subbuteo as a birthday present around '77. Bog standard set. Day one my younger brother stood on one of the goals, so airfix glue to the rescue!
Also got the Ajax team from my cousins and a working floodlight, from their parents.
My dad then attached the pitch to a slab of chipboard but managed to bend the touchlines outwards (nobody really cared), so it could be off the floor, initially on a pair of trestles he made, which were not perfectly level, adding interest to the game. Fortunately got a 6x3 snooker table for Christmas that year so that made sure 1 team wasn't kicking uphill.
In '78 someone gave me the City Subbuteo team as a birthday present. Immediately we noticed that one single player had been left with pink feet and never went completely in the direction you flicked it That one was always known as 'Paul Futcher with no boots on'.

 

[Harlaching Sky Blue]

Anyone ever remember those pack of numbers you could stick on the back of the players Shirts with minute tweezers....you needed eyes and precision of a brain surgeon and even then they ended up being unreadable and wrong way up. If you mastered sticking them on you could never read the numbers anyhow without a medical microscope. Waste of time and effort but kept me and my brother busy for hours.

Played subbuteo for years but never actually understood the rules!

 

[bernard o'silver]

I was never into Subbuteo. I did love this game though and spent many happy hours playing this with my mates.
Anyone else have this game - despite it being endorsed by a creepy guy in a red sweater?
You needed a marble (remember them) to play the game.

I loved that game as a kid too.By the way is the lad on the cover a time traveller, he appears to be wearing the new City top

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

If you are interested in selling your sets, it might be worth researching the value of it all.

There will almost certainly be collectors willing to pay for a collection, especially if it’s in good nick. They love original boxes.

Seek out an auctioneer, who specialises in toys.

I only know this stuff because Mrs Vienna is an avid watcher of these sort of programmes.

I think I probably just tell myself that I won't make any money on it and that ebay is a pain in the arse so that I can keep it all, that way I can look through it all whenever I feel like I need a bit of a nostalgia hit :)

 

[mattcity5]

Anyone ever remember those pack of numbers you could stick on the back of the players Shirts with minute tweezers....you needed eyes and precision of a brain surgeon and even then they ended up being unreadable and wrong way up. If you mastered sticking them on you could never read the numbers anyhow without a medical microscope. Waste of time and effort but kept me and my brother busy for hours.

Played subbuteo for years but never actually understood the rules!

Yeah i had them! Totally forgot about them. They didnt stay on too bad - once you managed to get them on...

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

I had subbuteo as a birthday present around '77. Bog standard set. Day one my younger brother stood on one of the goals, so airfix glue to the rescue!
Also got the Ajax team from my cousins and a working floodlight, from their parents.
My dad then attached the pitch to a slab of chipboard but managed to bend the touchlines outwards (nobody really cared), so it could be off the floor, initially on a pair of trestles he made, which were not perfectly level, adding interest to the game. Fortunately got a 6x3 snooker table for Christmas that year so that made sure 1 team wasn't kicking uphill.
In '78 someone gave me the City Subbuteo team as a birthday present. Immediately we noticed that one single player had been left with pink feet and never went completely in the direction you flicked it That one was always known as 'Paul Futcher with no boots on'.

My Ajax subbuteo team is fondly remembered from the great bedroom disaster of 1974 when a small wardrobe fell on them resulting in multiple breakages. I've since scoured the media but not found any reference to it.
It's like the forgotten tragedy.