This is a picture from Paul Willetts’s new book Teenage Flicks: Memories of the Sub-Beautiful Game, a collection of soccer anecdotes interspersed with photographs of Subbuteo, the infinitely customizable soccer board game popular in the mid-to-late 20th century. The Guardian has a terrific gallery of pictures from the book up today. From their introduction:
If you grew up in the 1950s, 60s, 70s or even 80s, chances are you’ll have recreated football’s greatest moments from the comfort of your own home using tiny plastic men on a cotton pitch, the slightest creases in which could drastically alter the course of even the biggest game.
Great stuff, even if, like me, you’ve never played Subbuteo. Now if we could just get a Lego recreation of the Zidane headbutt…
Read More: Leaves of Grass, Subbuteo
by Brian Phillips · November 7, 2008
Love it. I used to play Subbuteo before I was lured by the Playstation, though I wasn’t into it enough to get the stands or the bobby or the streaker.
Someone wrote a song about Subbuteo once upon a time, of course.
I’ve always wanted to play Subbuteo.