Subbuteo, and the all white kit

It looks really good does that... but £265!!.
What is it, gold plated.

 

I had Hamilton Academicals for my home kit and QPR for away.

By the way, the inventor of Subbuteo wanted to call the game 'Hobby' but the then powers that be wouldn't let him. So he out-flanked them by using the last word from the Neo Latin 'Falco Subbuteo' or the Eurasian Hobby, a bird of prey.

 

Slightly off topic but did anyone play that game "Howzat!"
I vaguely remember it was a cricket game with a hexagonal dice and I always wanted it, despite not being a cricket fan in my youth. Santa ignored me though so I had to make do with the occasional game in the school playground. Speaking of which I'm about to make a new thread...

 

My mate and I were the same, we played the full FA Cup as per the draw from the third round, if BFC were out by that stage, we took a team out and put us back in, 5 mins per game using my Mum's kitchen timer, it took ages to get through it but strangely enough BFC always made the final.

 

Was that the one that fitted into a little tube?

 

My memory is hazy, but I don’t remember a tube…

 

Got it now... my mate bust the tin and kept the bits in an old smartie type tube... actually it was one of his dad's cigar tubes.

 

That was the one. Would like to see it make a comeback.

 

I was trying to think of the name of that shop… Suggs indeed IIRC. My Nan used to take me there late 70’s to get Subbuteo stuff.

 

LOVED Howzat!!

Used to play world cups, Ashes series, the lot. I even got a proper cricket scorebook to record the games I played. Spent many a rainy day creating matches. ‘Hoyland’ would play Australia with the Hoyland team consisting of friends and family.

I can’t imagine kids these days having such imaginations. Sadly.

 

The other thing me and my mates used to do, (and I appreciate we may have been especially sad) was to get the league ladders from match magazine, mix all the individual team tokens up in a bag and then use dice and a complicated handicap system to do a full FA cup from round one.

I also remember us simulating a World Cup on FIFA 94. We didn’t play a game, we just watched the mega drive play itself and reported on the results…

 

Alfie had a phase where in the build up to a Barnsley’s next match he would create the game on FIFA and let the simulator do it’s thing and see what happened. I would have a little bet on the result it created. Don’t think it came in once!

 

As you can see in the photo, the precise name of the game was "Owzthat". I had that game and played it for a number of years, probably when I was 8-13. I played Test series between England and Australia and West Indies and used proper cricket scorebooks, bought from Hough and Midwood, whose shop was on or very near Gas Nook, before they moved to Shambles Street. In order to make the game more realistic, every time I rolled anything other than a 4, it was a dot ball. If I did roll a 4, then I rolled again to see how many runs were scored, or whether there was an appeal. This method produced the kind of run rate per over which was achieved in Test cricket in the late 50s and early 60s. I used to use a range of bowlers and commentate to myself, with such utterances as, "In comes Trueman, he bowls, and there's an appeal. Umpire's finger is raised. Benaud out for 17". At the end of a Test series, I would work out the batting and bowling averages and write them in the back of the scorebook. Great for developing numeracy. No calculators in those days, of course.

 

I did. Hours with paper scorecards and Howzat.

 

I think I had Hamilton Academicals, because I liked the name. Was their kit red and white hoops and black shorts?

 

Did much the same. Kids today...they wouldn't believe yer!!!

 

Still got mine! Teams of actresses would play other sundry characters in special exhibition matches. I seem to remember Sophia Loren being a very handy all rounder

 

I've never heard of the Howzat thing, was it an older game, 60s or 70s maybe ?.
Although looking at it, it looks very similar to something we'd play, which we called Pencil cricket.

 

We filled out proper score books, but more for Subbuteo cricket, 'Owzat' as we called it would be option 2 if our mam's were moaning about putting the Subbuteo pitch out in the living room.

 

We played it in the 60's...I wouldn't be surprised if it was much older.