Talk:Subbuteo

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How about a bit more about the playing aspect of the game?

Re: playing aspect
Well, we now have a basic outline of how the football version is played, hopefully someone can follow suit with the Rugby and cricket. Having said that however, from what I hear the Rugby version's rules were convoluted and didn't function that well, so summarizing them concisely might not be easy.

Gorillaz
Are these Gorillaz' fictional characters quotes of any interset, since there are just fictional characters ? Lvr 17:03, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

There was another game, in this vein, that I can't seem to find.
I used to own it, and it was controlled by little dudes with magnets, and when you pressed down on them, they'd bop the ball off. It was very similar to Subbuteo, but not quite as fiddly.


 * Pro Action Football, perhaps? I had that in the mid-'90s. Good little game, but a bit too quick and random compared with Subbuteo (the ball used to just end up pinging around the table in the games i played). I liked the goalies that caught the ball, dribbling was decent (if a bit too easy), the pitches were quite good - comparable to Subbuteo astroturf - and I remember using the (much-sturdier) goals to replace my broken Subbuteo ones. Not sure how applicable it is to the main article (since there were plenty of other games around that served as competition, after all), but there's some info on it here, and it could maybe get its own article, since it was pretty popular. Seb Patrick 07:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, that's actually the exact one I was looking for. Thanks!

My brother and I were given one set each - not one between the two of us - of a game called "Table Soccer" - pitch was cardboard, with the two shades of green grass favoured by football pitches of the 70s.

There were two teams - one red, one blue. The ball looked more like a tiddlywink than a ball. According to the rules, you kick the ball like as if you were playing tiddlywinks - with the side of the base. Only drawback was that throw-ins and goal kicks were ten a penny, as the ball always went behind the goal line or off the edge of the pitch for a throw-in (more like a kick-in). We had to modify the rules to allow for that, as we kept losing the ball behind the skirting board or under the bed (we played on the bedroom floor), by doing it from the front!

The rules were, for a kids' game, very strict - no player could touch the ball more than twice - loses possession to the next nearest man - it was often difficult to ascertain that, without a tape measure or something, you had to declare that you were going to shoot, you could only shoot from inside the fourth crease (it folded up into four) and so on.

There were twelve players - eleven on the pitch and one on the supplied score sheet - when you scored, that player would move up one. Ball had to go fully over the line for it to be a goal.

Also, some boys at my boarding school were playing a football game where you push down the players' heads to kick - however, they were unfamiliar with the general rules of football - you don't take a goal kick from a goal, nor do you take corners at your own end of the pitch!

Arthurvasey (talk) 09:57, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Factory
The text refers to the factory moving from Kent in the early 80s. When Hasbro bought Waddingtons (late 90s) there was still a small factory in Kent - near Ashtead from memory. I've no reference for this as its only my own memory - can anyone substantiate & provide info as to where it is made now? tig 21:04, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

(additional info) Having had contact with some of the people who worked at one of the factories in the 1960's, I can verify there was one in a small village named Chiddingstone Causeway. You will find this address on many of the boxed sets of this era (or it was on the sets that I owned). I believe it then became a Clinton's Cards producer and these days is home to various smaller business units.

Picture positions in text
The History blurb mentions pictures of players pictured above / pictured below etc. I don't think they match up anymore; should be looked at. It also isn't clear, at the end of that same paragraph, when the flat photograph players replaced the plastic modelled ones. JaffaCakeLover (talk) 20:10, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Colours
Since when have you been able to represent both Arsenal and Manchester United with the same (Ref 001) coloured figures??? Gloveman (talk) 12:08, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose that Sports table football be merged into this article, since the games are virtually identical and a single article (with a distinct name) would resolve the ambiguity between this game and table football.  Mini  apolis  21:32, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose This article is about the brand name Subbuteo. There is no evidence to suggest "Subbuteo" has become a generic trademark, but even if it has, separate articles remain for Hoover and vacuum cleaner, and for Coca-Cola and cola. Any confusion would be best handled by a hatnote. Cnbrb (talk) 15:19, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but those examples don't justify what are—in essence—duplicate articles (FWIW, I'd rather not be bothered with a merge :-)). All the best,  Mini  apolis  00:22, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

in the image of the 3 figures, the caption may hold an error

 The other two are as originally painted, reference 6 in yellow and ref 65 in white representing the United Kingdom side that played against Wales in 1969

Wales is in the UK and to my knowledge the 'UK' has never had a football team. Do they mean England? i'm not well versed in football although.

Jackass cooper (talk) 19:05, 25 November 2021 (UTC)