Question Subbuteo Sets

[Westcliff Shrimper]

Anyone on here still have a Subbuteo set? Any recommendations of where to get a decent new set with a Southend United team?

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Sometimes they use a set that covers various teams, like this.

 

[Blueronron]

Yep have original green felt pitch, scoreboard Brown and football teams names no longer in the league
Have teams Peru, Zaire, Norwich, Newcastle, Ajax, FC Twente and the FA cups and old European cup
Think I have a couple of streakers as well

They were happy day, also had the subutteo alarm clock that ticked away the minutes

 

[Blueronron]

Anyone on here still have a Subbuteo set? Any recommendations of where to get a decent new set with a Southend United team?

In the old days we use to paint over the teams, my father Inlaw painted my son the old Telewest shirts for a Christmas present one year

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

O.K. This is the only 2019/20 I can find. The seller is away tho until 14th April. Although photo shows 4 players, he says its 11 brand new players.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SOUTHEND...231282?hash=item2add0cd1b2:g:82IAAOSwuEheAlRA

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Retro Southend team set. I think he's really happy. Sorry, I say retro, but probably original.

 

[Floval Flyer]

I remember giving all my original 70's and 80's Subbuteo teams, all boxed, including several sets of goals, pitches, scoreboard, stands, dugout and loads of other bits away when we moved house in around 1985. Would be worth a fortune now.

Also gave away all my Action Men stuff, had tons of it, another gold mine.

Collectible toys now. Never gave it a second thought at the time.

 

[kaymac]

Still got my International Edition box set, lot of players with long term injuries the last time I looked....

 

[leeblue]

I have a set with my spain 82 england team..

 

[ESG]

Still got a box load of Subbuteo in the loft. IIRC there are 8 teams, a box of inter changeable goalkeepers, pitch, goals and corner flags.

We had a league of about 8 of us at school and the CEO, fixtures secretary and head of travel and hospitality arrangements was non other the AndyT!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Still got a box load of Subbuteo in the loft. IIRC there are 8 teams, a box of inter changeable goalkeepers, pitch, goals and corner flags.

We had a league of about 8 of us at school and the CEO, fixtures secretary and head of travel and hospitality arrangements was non other the AndyT!

Ditto.But back in the 60's in our case.With at least 4 players currently on SZ.

 

[Westcliff Shrimper]

Thank you all - especially @THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK for the link to this year's kit ! !

Anyone suggest a starter set to get, well, started with? Fancy reliving a bit of my distant childhood.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Yep have original green felt pitch, scoreboard Brown and football teams names no longer in the league
Have teams Peru, Zaire, Norwich, Newcastle, Ajax, FC Twente and the FA cups and old European cup
Think I have a couple of streakers as well

They were happy day, also had the subutteo alarm clock that ticked away the minutes

So many questions

Were the streakers on those bases and flicked onto the pitch like the players? Were they male or female?

Is scoreboard Brown when they use to call our ex-manager over the tannoy "Electrician to the scoreboard, electrician to the scoreboard"

 

[Its Only A Game]

I’ve still got a Melchester Rovers team from Roy of the Rovers.

 

[BedfordShrimper]

If you are into your subbuteo stuff, check this guys out. He has posted a few things Southend related recently also...
I am not sure entirely if they sell actual figures or just prints though..

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">To start the week, here is the latest addition to the Subbuteo Style collection....Southend United. <a href="https://t.co/RylyJCFh0o">pic.twitter.com/RylyJCFh0o</a></p>&mdash; Subbuteo Style (@SubbuteoStyle) <a href="

https://twitter.com/x/status/1247055511993884674

">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Rob1920]

I’ve got a fairly complete generic set in the loft, standard red & blue teams. Back in the day I even had the official subbuteo floodlights!

 

[Westcliff Shrimper]

If you are into your subbuteo stuff, check this guys out. He has posted a few things Southend related recently also...
I am not sure entirely if they sell actual figures or just prints though..

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">To start the week, here is the latest addition to the Subbuteo Style collection....Southend United. <a href="https://t.co/RylyJCFh0o">pic.twitter.com/RylyJCFh0o</a></p>&mdash; Subbuteo Style (@SubbuteoStyle) <a href="

https://twitter.com/x/status/1247055511993884674

">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This guy sells digital prints. One on the list to get...

 

[Blueronron]

So many questions

Were the streakers on those bases and flicked onto the pitch like the players? Were they male or female?

Is scoreboard Brown when they use to call our ex-manager over the tannoy "Electrician to the scoreboard, electrician to the scoreboard"

No streakers were static and both men and women
Haha re scoreboard it’s way before your time, it was a time when men had to manually change the score, I’m going to dig them out over weekend

 

[Blueronron]

I’ve got a fairly complete generic set in the loft, standard red & blue teams. Back in the day I even had the official subbuteo floodlights!

God Yes I forgot about flood lights, lit up with small batteries, use to love winter , dark nights and just the flood lights on to illuminate the pitch or if not light enough , my dad held a torch lol

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

I used to prefer playing Striker where you pressed the players head to kick the ball. Seem to remember the heads would get a bit wobbly after a while, as only thin wire?