Late last year the BBC published an article about the resurgence of Subbuteo. It was a great article but one paragraph stood out like a sore thumb among the comforting…
Stephen Hurrell
Stephen Hurrell
Stephen is the founder and editor of The Hobby Online and The Hobby by Subbuteo.Online print magazine. He is a giant nerd and specialises in Subbuteo, retro football kits and consumer stories. A journalist and editor of 15 years, he has written about football for some of the UK's biggest publications.
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Subbuteo clubs are welcoming back players in record numbers over a year after a finger was flicked in the UK. Solent Subbuteo And Table Soccer Club reopened this week and…
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Popular Subbuteo-themed Youtube series Table Football Monthly has called time on the show after 19 months. Keith Littler, the brains behind the monthly series, has announced problems with Youtube’s new…
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Jason Christopher did not intend for this to happen. A lapsed Subbuteo player who used to play in tournaments, he wanted a desk ornament in homage to the game he…
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The Mundials are Subbuteo’s most-loved goals thanks to their continental style and relative rarity. The goals were launched in the 1980s as updated versions of the equally popular Championship goals…
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A few months ago the makers of Subbuteo announced a new Deluxe pitch. It caused a bit of excitement because for the first time since Hong Kong-based Longshore had taken…
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A new Subbuteo box set featuring French football stars on the cover is now on sale. Subbuteo has launched the set via French toy company Megableu and is selling the…
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Are the makers of Subbuteo actually listening to feedback? It would definitely be a new development in the sorry saga of a once great toy brand but since Hong Kong-based…
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This week a very interesting document landed in my inbox courtesy of Glen, or CanadianHammer on Twitter. He had found a copy of Flick me sideways!, a collector magazine from the…
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Subbuteo is very much the global game and a large part of that was due to expansion by founder Peter Adolph and later Waddingtons. The company launched German teams in…