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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Did we kill Subbuteo? And should we care?

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 over the...

Subbuteo launches new France box set featuring Mbappe

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 fully licensed product...

Review: Subbuteo England Women’s Lionesses set

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 Longshore took the...

The bombshell news report that forced Subbuteo to create a monster

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 late 1990s and...

The rare German Subbuteo box set with some unusual teams

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 the early 1970s...

Inter’s crazy fourth 2020/21 kit has already been recreated in Subbuteo

Inter Milan are no stranger to unusual kit launches. The club has embraced the chaos of bizarre kit design after originally launching a zig-zag home kit for this season. However, the newly...

The inside story of the Subbuteo team that played a single game

The last international break saw North Macedonia stun Germany with a 2-1 victory in World Cup qualifying. The North Macedonia kit, with its sunbeam pattern, was never created in Subbuteo since it's such...

The UK office transformed into a Subbuteo wonderland

Offices do not need to be boring. As many people are planning a return to work after the Covid-19 pandemic there will be more than a few of us who are not keen...

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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