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12 Oct 2014 19:06:01
Liked your Subbuteo piece ed, but that was a far too one-dimensional viewpoint on the past-time.
Whilst there were established competitions for the flickers, who seemed to be expert middle aged fellas with a lifetime experience, many other kids' interest in this sport-substitute quickly waned.
Rather like train sets, who had their young would-be engineers/ mechanics / architects / designers etc as participants, Subbuteo also sold stadium extras that could broaden the mind. You could get terraces, stands, and other extras. Of course, the terraces went behind the goals. Saving your paper delivery money over a couple of months, and there was the prospect of buying a corner in-fill to your ground.
I don't recall Subbuteo selling toy spectators, but the stadium could be easily populated by toy soldiers, 'borrowing' train set figures and the like. A group of kids in cooperation would be better ; more resources and sharing of collections. A ground owned by, and run for, the fans!
The adventurous owners had a double or triple terrace end that recalled of trips to, or tv highlights of, the Kop or (pah) OT, Goodison Park or Maine Road.
Sadly I don't know of any kids who became billionaires and fulfilled this dream but that is not to deny the possibilities of Subbuteo.
The only down-side was that, by the time you'd saved enough to expand the ground and its fans, the lure of life had moved you on.
Perhaps a lesson that should be remembered by owners and television companies who take for granted their supporters
money?
When is Part II of Subbuteo due?
1.) You could buy crowds for the stands, I remember seeing them in a model shop many years ago. Actually it was a stand that had a crowd in it, if I remember rightly, rather than separate crowds to place in the empty stands.
I remember getting given Subboteo as a kid, I only played it once as we had to lay it out on the floor and there were only 3 players left intact after the first match!
30 Sep 2014 17:11:24
A Referendum Autopsy carried out by Dr Frankie Boyle on the beeb's IPlayer.
Not so much "scalpel please nurse", as "giz a sledgehammer there hen".
LMAO, brilliant.
Lennon will be back at Leicester after Xmas HB, wait and see.
I'm just watching him on English MoTD actually, he's a guest pundit tonight.
Talks a lot of sense, funny, got all the Liverpool decisions spot on as well.
Like the guy.
10 Jun 2015 17:18:31
If Scotland moved to Summer football, I wonder if players (especially released players like these) may feel more ready to make loan moves to the SPLF?
09 May 2015 08:27:32
The deficit under Labour, prior to the financial crisis of 2008, was less than that run by the Tories in the 90's.
There is no doubt that the bailout to the banks and financial sector caused the current deficit levels.
National debt as a % to GDP has been far higher in the past, after both World Wars.
http://goo.gl/jhJVTv
17 Oct 2014 15:31:12
There you go ed ; the Germans play /and still do, Suubuteo.
I bet all their fans have a Subbuteo stadium somewhere around the house :-)
Viva the football revolution!
Viva Subbuteo!
14 Sep 2014 18:27:12
OK ok, less of the neo.
14 Sep 2014 16:06:43
Come next Monday ed, are you saying the Stock Market will be unaffected?
Is the stock market not used for neo-political purposes?
Will State Chinese, Russian, Arabic investors look at it as a chance to 1. make money out of Scotland / rUK and 2. further their own state interests?
All the economic stuff should have been discussed and agreed upon before any vote surely?