Subbuteo

Quoted from rancido

Great ! So me and my mates weren't the only mad ones around playing Subuteo. I remember the flat plastic players from a set that my brother had and I also recall one or two flat cardboard ones that my eldest brother , who is 84 now , used to have.
Mine were the solid plastic figures. On the subject of naming players , I took one, cut his head off, painted the remaining stump with red paint and called him Ed Missing! He had a lethal left foot but was no good in the air! My mates thought I had gone too far at that point and accused me of not taking the game seriously enough.

I had the floodlight version of subbuteo, no longer have the floodlights has Mr Fenty is currently using them at BP.

I wonder if anyone on here remembers the game "Newfooty"

It was the pre-cursor of Subbuteo... came out between the two World Wars. Not much online about it except for this brief Wiki page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfooty

My grandad used to run a league in the Grimsby area where he lived ( maybe even further afield ) - he had a newsagents and loads of the lads who took papers used to play the game

When I was a kid my grandad still had all the old paraphernalia.... teams galore as they were cardboard kits inserted into a groove on a lead base. H&S would never allow it nowadays!  

My dad told me that the guy who invented it let the patent lapse after WWII  and whoever it was who came up with Subbuteo after WWII cottoned on to that and the rest is history

http://www.peter-upton.co.uk/newfooty.htm

Loved Subbuteo like others with a few mates had a league, it really worked well as my friends supported Hull Scunny and Leeds nearly every game was a derby or grudge match. I bought the Leeds team then painted them in Town colours (red socks and numbers inc) using airfix paint. Still got the stuff in a cupboard somewhere, played with Son Of and Younger Son Of when they were kids in the late 90s as well.

I had the floodlight version too , always needed a few tubes of bostik to hand

In the mid 70’s (roughly) I had “Striker”, in which the plastic players kicked the ball by you pushing their heads down.  Really powerful shooting, but if you got too enthusiastic it was easy to break the players   Very hard to keep the felt pitch flat, even after ironing!, but the diving goalies were great

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Quoted from lee65

In the mid 70’s (roughly) I had “Striker”, in which the plastic players kicked the ball by you pushing their heads down.  Really powerful shooting, but if you got too enthusiastic it was easy to break the players   Very hard to keep the felt pitch flat, even after ironing!, but the diving goalies were great

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Me too. It was probably the best football game after Subbuteo IMO. Five a side wasn’t it. You could bounce the ball off the side barrier.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Me too. It was probably the best football game after Subbuteo IMO. Five a side wasn’t it. You could bounce the ball off the side barrier.

You could if you could get the over enthusiastic players to keep it below the flexi barrier height  

Quoted from lee65

You could if you could get the over enthusiastic players to keep it below the flexi barrier height  

The secret was to not get the player too close to the ball so his foot didn’t get under it. Much like in real football 😁