My parents did get me one second hand Subbuteo figure once, apparently it was Subbuteo marathon runner (strangely in a white football kit and with one leg). His name was Thomas Lewis and we had many a fun night doing the London Marathon on the pavement beside our shoe box home. I still look forward to going home to my old box just for a chat.
I had an old Namibia team complete with box (must have been from the 70's) for my set when my dad gave me his old one back in the 90's. Namibia! What a random side to make a set of.
I expect Thomas Lewis has lived a very full life and has achievedallthere is to achieve in the Subbuteo marathon world. I wonder if he'd have the time of day to speak to the likes of a shoe box dweller such as yourself Swim....
I hadn't eaten for a year and I walked 20 miles barefoot to play football with a brick in the depths of winter
Who knows, every player was black and the kit was green, Unfortunatly digging around in the attic to check just sounds horrendous and I Cba!
Aaah yes, did I mention that I too hadn't eaten for years and was beaten on the bell end whilst walking 20 miles barefoot in the depths of winter to play football with a brick, on my own....sometimes my parents would make it up to me for inflicting this treatment by purchasing a subbuteo team (the Scotland World Cup '86 XI, for example).
Actually, before Subbuteo I had a different version called Newfooty which I actually preferred. From memory, Newfooty was a neater game with better figures and far better goal nets - the Subbuteo nets were quite crude in comparison. The Newfooty nets were better built with a close green mesh; the Subbuteo nets looked like coarse pieces of string strung together. Still, it looks like Subbuteo became the popular game and Newfooty passed into oblivion.
