The Beautfiul Game

[localny]

Subbuteo that is!

Here's some of our idols playing it down the years (mainly, way baaack)

Full link is here
http://www.theguardian.com/football...-gallery-pictures#/?picture=429052357&index=3

 

[cloggypop]

 

[Dirty Sanchez]

Man I love the "beautfiul" game too.


What the fuck is the beautfiul game?

 

[localny]

Ceard a Bhfuil tu?

 

[Athens]

Ta maith go...

I can't remember any Irish.

 

[Brizzle]

I used to love subbuteo - they brought out "pro action soccer" which I was also bought as a young'un but subbuteo was my game. Used to play a group of neighbours loads!

I also have a very fond memory of my granddad teaching me the offside rule using subbuteo one Christmas 🙂

 

[localny]

Subbuteo = how you separate the true football fan from the rest.. 😉

 

[737Max]

Pah.....

It's all about this:

Now this was the beautiful game

 

[cloggypop]

This was the only competition for Subbuteo

 

[Brizzle]

Subbuteo was incredible.

 

[cloggypop]

Flick to kick

 

[cloggypop]

 

[Leo]

Pah.....

It's all about this:

Now this was the beautiful game

Loved that game.
Was well fucking noisy though.

 

[Markeh]

Pah.....

It's all about this:

Now this was the beautiful game

I still have that in my parents attic I think, nearly soiled myself the first time someone brought it into school, it was great. I got some hand me down subbuteo too, stained cloth, missing bits and most players had broken ankles 🙁

All fifa, pro evo and championship manager now... booo

 

[Frogfish]

I used to love subbuteo ...... but subbuteo was my game. Used to play a group of neighbours loads!

Ditto. There weret 12-13 of us in our road and it was either kicking a ball about in the road (throw jumpers on the ground for goalposts) usually ending up in the slaughter of the neighbours roses or on rainy days an indoor Subbuteo league !

Localny's spelling is doing my head in 😀 Boot Fee Ull !

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

We couldn't really afford Subbuteo when I was young, and I could only look wistfully at the pictures in the papers. Our alternative was cardboard football which we could make ourselves. We'd cut strips of vanguard sheets, fold them in half, and stand them in an inverted "V", with each strip being a player (complete with jersey numbers). Pressing down on them with various degrees of force then allowed you to shoot or pass. The ball was a small dice. The goal post and nets were also made from cardboard.

That was a beautiful game.

 

[Frogfish]

And we used to get up an hour before we went to bed to lick the motorway clean !

 

[localny]

One of my favorite songs of all time and not just for the subbuteo reference! But it helps!

 

[localny]

Oh and I still have a set here in the apartment. Bought it in cork about 14 years ago. The only people who "get it" are my daughter, my Malaysian buddy, and my friend from Costa Rica.

Oh and there was a guy I used to work with. When I visited his office, in manhattan, he had a room set aside with a table and subbuteo set. American guy, who...wait for it...studied at Liverpool university! Anyway, that's 18 years ago...but I still remember him falling out with me over me winning once. My keeper played a blinder..rivaled any away win in the eastern bloc,

Anyway. I'd better stop now!

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

We couldn't really afford Subbuteo when I was young, and I could only look wistfully at the pictures in the papers. Our alternative was cardboard football which we could make ourselves. We'd cut strips of vanguard sheets, fold them in half, and stand them in an inverted "V", with each strip being a player (complete with jersey numbers). Pressing down on them with various degrees of force then allowed you to shoot or pass. The ball was a small dice. The goal post and nets were also made from cardboard.

That was a beautiful game.

Shit.. I actually found a blogpost of some kids in recent years doing the same thing, except they used collector cards for the players while we made those ourselves. And we had a full complement of 11 players per team back then.

http://honey4boyz.blogspot.sg/2012/10/cardboard-finger-soccer-5-oct-2012.html

 

[Boozer]

This was the only competition for Subbuteo

That wasn't first team material in any respect. When I wanted "fast single handed action" it wasn't Striker that was pulled out!

 

[Brizzle]

I have been sorting out my family house in the past few weeks and am pretty sure I saw my set in the loft - tempted now to bring it back to London and find someone who fancies a game!