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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Subbutegoals: Ashley Young’s terrible corner kick for Manchester United

Poor Jose. With a World Cup-winning giant baby in midfield, a misfiring Chilean on £500,000 per week and a fanbase getting restless, the last thing he needed was defeat at the increasingly impressive...

Exclusive: No new Subbuteo sets or teams in 2018, confirm Hasbro

There will be no new Subbuteo launched this year by Hasbro, the toy maker has confirmed. Subbuteo.Online asked Hasbro and its UK licensee Paul Lamond games if there were plans for new teams,...

John Lewis has an exclusive vintage-style Subbuteo set for Christmas

UK department store John Lewis has brought back its vintage-style Subbuteo set for Christmas 2018. The box set is sold only in John Lewis stores and online and has a box designed to...

Subbuteo Stadiums: Fan recreates Brighton’s Goldstone Ground in Subbuteo

A Brighton fan has lovingly recreated Brighton and Hove Albion's former Goldstone Ground in Subbuteo - and it looks amazing. Subbuteo, having been created in the 1940s, lends itself perfectly to classic grounds...

Sport Billy might be the weirdest Subbuteo set ever produced

A rare an unpopular Subbuteo set has appeared on eBay -with bidders already sending the price past £30. The Sport Billy Subbuteo set is a strange box set produced for a couple of...

We painted the new Barcelona Nike 20th anniversary mashup kit in Subbuteo and it went as badly as you would expect

Barcelona are about to launch a special edition kit to celebrate the club's 20th anniversary with kit supplier Nike. The kit, according to FootyHeadlines, is a Frankenstein-like mashup of every single Barcelona kit...

The football teams that deserve to be immortalised in Subbuteo

Hasbro has no interest in bringing back Subbuteo or creating quality new sets. In the UK Paul Lamond does a sort of 'Subbuteo-lite' with a few licensed teams and the general Subbuteo shape...

Subbuteo’s rarest box set has appeared in an antiques shop in London

A Subbuteo box set dubbed 'the Holy Grail' for collectors has appeared in a London antiques shop at a bargain price. The 1973 Munich edition of Subbuteo was spotted by eagle-eyed shoppers in...

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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