Subbuteo - the memories

[Yermiyahu]

I'm assuming the title was going to be "Teenage Flicks"

That would make a great title! Shame it isn't going to happen now.

 

[parklane1]

OK full disclosure. My first Subbuteo set was a 1950's set that had been my uncles, my Nan handed it to me when I was 9. But then by some miracle( my family had very little money) I acquired the 1974 World cup edition, which I played incessantly until my mid teens, I had a handful of teams and played mates, cousins etc.We even had a league at one point.
Any excuse for a game,I loved Subbuteo. One of my big things was to lay on my bed age 10 perusing the 1974 team catalog, there were 165 teams featured and my dream was to one day own every one. Anyhow by the time I was 18 Lambretta Scooters, soul music and girls took up most of my time and Subbuteo became a distant memory until.. around the year 1999 I chanced upon a set at a car boot sale. Memories came flooding back , I bought it with the idea that if I ever had a son he might like to play .

Long story short, I became an obsessive collector, historian and even started writing a book about the company and its history, there was and still probably is quite a small but obsessive collecting scene in the UK and worldwide. My vast and quite valuable collection was sold in 2003 when we emigrated to the US. Its interesting that, whilst I achieved my initial ambition of having the 165 different teams in the 1974 catalog, and so much more besides, I never played a game once whilst I was collecting.

For a couple of years it was an absolute obsession. I remember driving from London to Leeds to collect a particularly rare game ( the baseball version). I hope nobody minds me reminiscing, but it struck a cord when I saw this thread

Great story mate and well done, well it was a great story apart for the bit about the "Lambretta Scooters" .

ROCKERS RULE.

 

[Bullet]

That would make a great title! Shame it isn't going to happen now.

Sounds like you are 90% done, may as well finish it and self publish, otherwise it was all wasted time

Even if a handful of nerds enjoy the book, it will be worthwhile




Me, I never liked Subbuteo because my brother was 4 years older so would always win. He had the patience to dribble ALLLLLL the way up the pitch with 2 players, nudging the ball about 1/4 of a rotation over and over and over and over and over and over whilst I lost interest and gave up. Dullard.

I always preferred Striker - push their head down and their foot lashed out. Quality

 

[billyiddo]

OK full disclosure. My first Subbuteo set was a 1950's set that had been my uncles, my Nan handed it to me when I was 9. But then by some miracle( my family had very little money) I acquired the 1974 World cup edition, which I played incessantly until my mid teens, I had a handful of teams and played mates, cousins etc.We even had a league at one point.
Any excuse for a game,I loved Subbuteo. One of my big things was to lay on my bed age 10 perusing the 1974 team catalog, there were 165 teams featured and my dream was to one day own every one. Anyhow by the time I was 18 Lambretta Scooters, soul music and girls took up most of my time and Subbuteo became a distant memory until.. around the year 1999 I chanced upon a set at a car boot sale. Memories came flooding back , I bought it with the idea that if I ever had a son he might like to play .

Long story short, I became an obsessive collector, historian and even started writing a book about the company and its history, there was and still probably is quite a small but obsessive collecting scene in the UK and worldwide. My vast and quite valuable collection was sold in 2003 when we emigrated to the US. Its interesting that, whilst I achieved my initial ambition of having the 165 different teams in the 1974 catalog, and so much more besides, I never played a game once whilst I was collecting.

For a couple of years it was an absolute obsession. I remember driving from London to Leeds to collect a particularly rare game ( the baseball version). I hope nobody minds me reminiscing, but it struck a cord when I saw this thread

Got any photos of the collection? Get them posted if so

 

[MKSpur]

Sounds like you are 90% done, may as well finish it and self publish, otherwise it was all wasted time

Even if a handful of nerds enjoy the book, it will be worthwhile

+1 to this - Or publish the story of how you collected it all and then the tearjerker at the end when you sold it!

I remember seeing an egg chasing one once, with a scrum o matic or something - did you have that?!

 

[Yermiyahu]

Great story mate and well done, well it was a great story apart for the bit about the "Lambretta Scooters" .

ROCKERS RULE.

+1 to this - Or publish the story of how you collected it all and then the tearjerker at the end when you sold it!

I remember seeing an egg chasing one once, with a scrum o matic or something - did you have that?!

I did have all the rugby stuff, there was quite a lot. No tear jerker when I sold it.

 

[Yermiyahu]

Got any photos of the collection? Get them posted if so

I'd have to dig deep and look back through files I probably haven't opened since our move to the US 15 years ago