Subbuteo Rugby teams first appeared as an accessory in the early 1970s, and were firstly only available in the Chunky style figure on the all one piece base. The story behind those figures dates back to a very long and bitter battle between Peter Adolph and Newfooty, which ended with…
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How Subbuteo got one of the world’s most famous kits wrong
River Plate booked their place in the Copa Libertadores final after a late penalty against Brazilian giants Gremio. The Buenos Aires club will now face either Palmeiras or arch rivals Boca Juniors in a mouth-watering final that represents the biggest trophy in South American football. A Superclasico final is looking…
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Panini Premier League stickers are back and we want them to do Subbuteo next
Nostalgia fans rejoice – Premier League football stickers will be made by legendary company Panini from 2019/20. The Italian sticker makers, who lost the rights to the Premier League in the early 1990s to start-up Merlin, has won them back and now plans to reinvigorate the world of sticker collecting….
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We told Maltese table-toppers Gzira United about their very own Subbuteo team
This is a new series of articles by Subbuteo.Online in which we explore the reference numbers of the lightweight Subbuteo days from around 1980 to 1996. We hope by showcasing and following new teams fans can learn a bit more about the wider world of football and its links to…
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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 West Ham. But that is exactly what he got, as the Hammers ran riot in a 3-1…
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The history of Subbuteo Rugby
Subbuteo Rugby first appeared on the market in the mid 1950’s. It was available for about four years when due to very poor sales it was deleted. This first version was far removed from the version that we came to know and love. It was available in two Boxed Sets,…
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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 made by Nike. The result is a bit of a horror show of patches, stripes and hoops…
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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 but for many that is not really enough. It is why we constantly get excited over the…
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The man keeping Subbuteo Rugby alive
Subbuteo goes beyond football, and it was the discovery of the rugby version that rekindled my interest in Subbuteo more than a decade ago. Subbuteo Rugby was a game of complexities and confusion. There was a combined set for league and union, but it was never marketed perhaps as well…
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Subbutegoals – Paulo Di Canio pushes over the referee
This was the moment Paulo Di Canio completely lost his head. After a foul on Arsenal’s Patrick Viera, who promptly pushed the offending player over, there was a clash between Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday players in the 1998 Premier League fixture. What happened next is one of the most controversial…