How many songs can you name that reference Subbuteo?

I can only think of one.

My Perfect cousin The Undertones.

Five Man Army - Massive Attack

Half Man Half biscuit - All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Strip

The one off the Subbuteo advert

Is there a subbuteo advert? Has there ever been one?

Any of the above reference subbuteo cricket?

You really do need a week in the Lake District laying down in a dark room.

None by the way.

Apart from scruffy kids my next big fear in the lakes will be the professional hikers......the ramblers.

What a pack of bastards they are.

And I bet none of them ever played subbuteo.

Especially the rugby league version.

Artisan bread - The sub was a beauty though.

If you want to be a clever twwat you could include any song that references 'hobby'.

That's cos Subbuteo got it's name from the hobby, a bird of prey, the latin name for which is subbuteo.

no. You couldnt.

It has to be subbuteo.

Subbuteo (the game not a band) had an album out in the 70's. (May have been 60's).

As an aside my most expensive team if I was to sell on the current market values, due to rarity etc, would be......have a guess?

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I never had Subbuteo, I had total action football. (Photo nicked from google, i'm not in it)

Also had World Cup Cricket.

Right. Those are shit. Compared to these:

"Fast single handed action"

I remember those days.

They really are scary...... they all have grey beards, even the women! They all have backpacks full of Kendal mint cake and lentils n stuff only a rabies infected Guinea pigs would eat. The all have strange weather beaten faces and wear shorts which show of their spindly legs which look like walnuts in condoms. They don't speak, but keep looking to the far horizon occasionally looking at the map tied around their neck and their rubber coated compasses even though they're stood under a massive road sign. They are intense people who never smile and can bore the paint off a tug boat. You'll have a field day showing your utter contempt. Go for it.

Memories of Subbuteo, was a bugger when you knelt on a player , basically killing him, two broken legs, arms and a crushed head. I used to put Sugar on the pitch to replicate a game played in Winter when it was frosty or snowing, don't tell me mam like , she always wondered were the Sugar kept disappearing to.

In the 70s used to be a big Subbuteo section in the department store on Blackpool seafront, was in my element , had the stand/terraces , the lot.

Mr Horden I got my first 2 Subutteo teams from there. And goals and balls too! I had a hand me down pitch/set from my older cousin who had knacked or lost most of the stuff!!! As for broken players, its amazing how many people used some sort of superglue that actually melted part of the player!
Twud appear though I wasn't as Posh as though, as I built my stadium out of Lego and a woodwork project at school (I failed woodwork and the stand collapsed soon after). In hindsight to make Subutteo real they should have supplied Subutteo H&S inspectors to declare my stand unfit!!!!!!

Binns was the place for Subbuteo in Hartlepool although Mike Goughs might have also sold it?

Think St Etienne were the first team I bought and I painted the pools kit and team myself.

Had the pitch stuck to some solid board. Couldn't stand it when you went round a friends and they just had the pitch rolled up and creased etc. Peasants.

Had 2 grey stands with no roof and a blue and red stand which had a roof. Painted all the fans and stuck em on with blue tac.

Had a camera tower and a police dog.

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Used to get mine from Mike Goughs. Had the scoreboard with the paper cutouts and a few other bits. Pools came as Hartlepool/Ipswich in a plain blue shirt white short combo. Was probably too young to play it properly so just used to act out the previous week's pools games with yubeps brother.

Sportsworld in church square ran by Derek Short i think it was had the best and biggest selection of subbuteo i remember

Can remember sportsworld in york road.
Sure there was a Sportskit on other side of road.
Good man Derek remember him from Hpoil golf club in the 80,s

It was a cracking shop wasn't it? a magical place for a young football fan. My old man made me a couple of wooden stands, wish I had kept them , looking back they were works of art, he must of spent many a Saturday afternoon up in the loft making them. I used to glue my players together as well , always found the players performed better once the glue had been applied

Back on track

Admiral Fallow - Subutteo

That's not bread.

I actually went to a Dukla Prague game when I was last in Prague.


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The Base Is Round Against The Ground by Savaged By Otters, nothing short of wonderful.

Reminds me of a nightmare I had, where I was responsible for marketing a game called 'booker', a cross between bowls and snooker. It was a complete farce, the rules hadn't even been agreed on or anything when there was a press conference.

Ronnie O'Sullivan was the 'face' of it but he happened to be at a low ebb of a bipolar cycle, and kept vanishing back to his dressing room. Symbolic of something, but I don't know what.

Loved Subbuteo despite getting my arse kicked all the time by my older brother.

The keepers used to get broken all the time.

A few were repaired with blutac. If you shot hard enough the keeper would just bend.

Bingo must have lasted seconds then? Only joking.

As an aside, being an only child, I created a cricket game using paper, a pencil, an eraser, and a die.

You only needed two pencils for the cricket game. .

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It means you fancy your mam.

I spent ages trying to buy an Astro turf subuteo pitch. Finally succeeded and got the wife to wrap it up for Xmas for the lads to go with their hand painted new teams. Xmas morning comes and I can't see the tube it comes in anywhere. I asked where it was and she pointed to a 6 inch square parcel on the ground. Please God Nooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Yup ..... She proudly pointed out she'd managed to fold it and 'squeeze it in' to the end of a shitty roll of Xmas wrapping paper and saved having to buy more
The look on the lads faces when they unwrapped it was disappointment personified. As though a tramp had walked in and pissed on their presents.

The pitch laid out featured ridges and squares and totally useless. In true Mam style she said" Oh.....it'll be alright" It wasn't. She even offered to iron it. They declined.
And all to save a bit of shitty paper.

Owzat!

The scrum machine in Subbuteo rugby looked like the sort of artisan bread that Mr Butt would travel up to Berwick for.

Also was I the only one who used Airfix soldiers as the crowd? Poolies were a mix of WW2 British Commandos (best duts) and WW2 US paratroopers (nice jackets and boots). Leeds fans were the Napoleonic infantry which meant they had a flag. There were a lot of matches ruined by pitch invasions triggered by that lot.

Finally, I fell out with a good mate at primary school when an argument about 'dragging' ended with him stamping on Coventry away. Still not happy about that carnage being unleashed.

Largely responsible for my terrible performance in maths in third year. Play it anywhere unless the teacher was particularly alert.

What did you use for the supporters coaches..... Armoured personnel carriers?

Only had one bus which was a DUKW amphibious vehicle. No seats but no windows to get put out either.

Well if the DUKW was the away supporters coach and there was any chew, it could drive off through the model Marina .

I got the Astro Pitch eventually. Had to unroll it and put thick books on for a few hours (just to flatten it) before you could play on it.