Subbuteo

If you stuck them with Bostik it looked like they were wearing thick beige legwarmers.

 

Hey Saddy lol, I always thought it was best to use airfix model glue. But you had to be careful with your skin, it was dangerous stuff to use as a kid.

 

Aye, great memories. It’s a bit strange watching adults taking it so seriously though

 

Yeah I've never understood those people taking it so seriously these days, and over reacting.
Although I did go a bit apesh*it once when my star player got crushed lol, and I couldn't fix him.

 

Heres a few bits I've collected over the years.
Still have loads of subbuteo from when I was a kid !

 

Sorry mate, you are getting confused, you are thinking of Josh Benson.

 

Casden Soccer (Bobby Charlton) was my first table top game. Controlled the players by twisting knobs on the four corners of the pitch. I remember I had a game that was like a tiddlywink version too; great feeling tiddling your wink over the keeper into the net from the half way line.

I got Striker the year after most of my mates, so they were a year better than me. And the Xmas I got mine, they were getting the upgrade of the diving keeper version.

 

As I said in the previous thread I’ve still got all my old teams, the pitch, goals and balls. I never got round to building a stadium. I’m curious about that in fact - how did you play the game without knocking over grandstands and floodlights? As a kid in the 1960s I used to scrabble around on the floor except when playing away games in the league I joined. Some players had tables big enough to play on - I did not!

It just occurred to me reading about painting players - I had the all white team as one of my sets and was maybe ashamed about the Leeds connection. Solution? Paint the shorts dark green and what was our away strip in the Premier League season nearly 30 years later? White shirts and dark green shorts. Spooky!

 

I have a subuteo never played with it, bought from a second hand shop in the eighties. Also the Barnsley premier team (kit) not sure how I came across it or bought it. Obviously after 1997.
similar to the ones shown by Djtone. But sure the one with ORA on the shirts.