Newcastle United will release the new Adidas 2024/25 home kit on 7 January after the launch date was leaked in a legal dispute with Sports Direct. Details released by the BBC confirmed the club’s much-anticipated new home shirt will be revealed on 7 June. It will be the first time…
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SubbuteoFest 2022 review: What I thought about the two-day table football event
Late July 2022 saw the UK’s biggest celebration of all things Subbuteo and the two-day event was a major hit. SubbuteoFest, organised by Haverhill Subbuteo Club with the support of the English Subbuteo Association, promised to be the biggest table football event of its kind in the UK across Saturday…
SubbuteoFest 2022 nears as UK set to welcome massive Subbuteo fair and tournament
The biggest Subbuteo event of the year is set to arrive in a few days as the doors open to SubbuteoFest 2022. A historic festival of Subbuteo, the event will host the first official Subbuteo tournament in the UK since the 1990s and hundreds of attendees will also be able…
Subbuteo is back as clubs welcome record numbers
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 recorded a bumper crowd as fans of the game who had reconnected with the community flocked to the opening night….
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 early 2000s. It’s very much the forerunner to The Hobby magazine but has a much more forensic…
The Hobby Magazine order update
I wanted to share an update about The Hobby magazine. If you ordered before 1 March you should have your magazine with you by now as part of the first print run.If you ordered after 1 March you are part of the second print run. That is now due to arrive…
The Hobby magazine posting update
Hi, I thought I would do a quick update as it’s been a week since many of you bought the magazine. The magazine is now on the way to me from the printers. It was delayed by a couple of days and my next day delivery is actually going to…
Subbuteo club rebrands and reveals post-Covid restart date
A Subbuteo club near Southampton has rebranded as it plans for post-Covid meetings. Solent Table Soccer & Subbuteo Club in Hampshire has rebranded with a new logo design by Westwood Table Soccer and has announced it will be launching a new member drive in preparations for new meet ups in…
Subbuteo to launch historic England Lionesses women’s football set for the first time
Subbuteo is set to sell the first ever women’s football set in a historic move for the brand. A new officially-licensed Subbuteo England Lionesses set is based around the women’s national football team and is the first time Subbuteo is selling women players to the UK public. The Subbuteo England…
Subbuteo’s founder built a rival game to take down his old company
In another delve into the often weird and wacky history of Subbuteo we take a look at the time Subbuteo’s founder Peter Adolph actually plotted to replace Subbuteo with a new game. After selling Subbuteo to toy giant Waddingtons for £250,000 plus share options, Adolph was employed as a consultant…