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So I am reading a book at the moment called "Growing Up With Subbuteo" written by the son of the bloke who invented Subbuteo. Its a pretty crazy story of how subbuteo got off the ground.
Anyhow, the interesting fact is that the bloke who invented Subbuteo (Peter Adolph) was a QPR fan. The book itself shows a couple of Subbuteo men on the front in QPR colours!
Subbuteo and QPR -- who remembers Subbuteo? on 13:50 - Jun 22 by nadera78
Did you have to set and re-set the scrum five times before the ref gave up and awarded a penalty?
Interesting that the rugby game came with teams from both league and union. Surprised the RFU didn't try and ban it!
If you wanted a league scrum, you just blocked five of the six chutes. We started as Union, went to League as we lost a few players under the sofa and finished as Sevens!
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Subbuteo and QPR -- who remembers Subbuteo? on 14:16 - Jun 22 by MrSheen
If you wanted a league scrum, you just blocked five of the six chutes. We started as Union, went to League as we lost a few players under the sofa and finished as Sevens!
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Sounds like Henry Paul's career.
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Subbuteo and QPR -- who remembers Subbuteo? on 13:30 - Jun 22 by freddieeddie
I had most of the teams, stands, the lot. Had it all on the floor one night when I went to bed. My grandad lived with me at the time and he came in to say goodnight. As he walked over all I could hear was the crushing of the players under his feet. He was old and I never had the heart to say what he had done. Woke up in the morning and about 15 players were crushed to deaf and a floodlight no longer had any lights :)
RIP Grandad
But did you glue or weld? I ask because a mate at the time suggested welding using a match. Unfortunately,I ended up with virtually a head on a base for a Uruguan/Man City player but, boy, could he take a mean free kick with that head!
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Subbuteo and QPR -- who remembers Subbuteo? on 16:49 - Jun 22 with 1084 views
I used to play all the time as a kid, had my own league with mates and then used to listen to away games on capital radio whilst playing the game out on my subbuteo table.
A couple of years ago when I regularly updated by QPR website I got told in no uncertain terms by the football league that I could no longer show any pictures of matches or players on my site so instead I re created games every Sunday with my old subbuteo teams and pitch and would use photo shop to put the current kit of them. That worked quite well for three months until a brief from the football league got in touch about my site and threatening more legal action so I stopped doing it.
My son plays with it now but has managed to break most of my Brazil 1986 team
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Subbuteo and QPR -- who remembers Subbuteo? on 19:22 - Jun 22 with 1044 views
Subbuteo and QPR -- who remembers Subbuteo? on 21:24 - Jun 22 by Gloucs_R
Does anyone remember that sickening crunch sounds......
Particularly nasty injury that one, looks like he has lost his arms as well as snapping both achilles as we as full dislocation of the ankles. Even Matthew Rose never suffered like that!
Subbuteo and QPR -- who remembers Subbuteo? on 21:31 - Jun 22 by DWQPR
Particularly nasty injury that one, looks like he has lost his arms as well as snapping both achilles as we as full dislocation of the ankles. Even Matthew Rose never suffered like that!
Nothing a squirt of araldite wouldn't put right!!
favourite cheese mature Cheddar. FFS there is no such thing as the EPL
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