The table football game Subbuteo is now 76 years old, but despite its age it still holds a place in the hearts of a broad church of enthusiasts. twoht
Perhaps the high point came on April 10, 1980. At the start of that evening’s Top of the Pops, after a chart rundown came a studio appearance by Irish band The Undertones performing their newly-released single“He always beats me at Subbuteo/’Cos he flicked to kick, and I didn’t know.”
Originally sold by mail order with orders fulfilled from a spare bedroom, the first version of Subbuteo was very different to the game with which later generations would become so familiar. The players themselves came on a cardboard sheet which had to be cut out and affixed to small plastic bases. The goals were made of wire with paper ‘netting’ attached. Most significantly of all, there was no pitch.
With the muscle of the producers of Monopoly and Cluedo behind it, Subbuteo continued to grow. The game expanded into rugby, cricket, hockey, speedway, snooker and angling And the level of attention to detail could get granular. Advertisement hoardings, scoreboards, television gantries, corner flags, the St John’s Ambulance people, the police, special figures to take throw-ins and corners, ball boys, VIPs, scaled-down replicas of major trophies. If it was associated with the actual game of football itself, it could be added to your collection.
The biggest single reason why it survived the video game boom was the hobbyists, who kept Subbuteo’s flame alive throughout the years when the game wasn’t widely available. The internet has brought these people together, and there are now numerous blogs and websites devoted to the subject. And the hobbyists can go deep. Very, very deep indeed.
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