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More Beautiful Pictures of Tiny Plastic Football Men

From the Telegraph‘s “Pictures of the Day”: bespoke Subbuteo figurines. From left to right: Fabrizio Ravanelli, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Steven Gerrard, Alan Shearer, and Obafemi Martins. Hovering in the background like the smiling, bespectacled god of a race of men who are curiously affixed to brightly colored disks: creator Tom Taylor.

More Beautiful Pictures of Tiny Plastic Football Men

by Brian Phillips · February 24, 2009

Nick
If you turn the Martins one upside down, it looks like he is parachuting.

Parchuting into the Championship.

February 24, 2009 at 6:08 pm · Reply
Brian Phillips
Whereas Gerrard is like, “handcuff this.”

February 24, 2009 at 7:40 pm · Reply
bObO
Alan Shearer has long been an admirer of Tommie Smith.

February 24, 2009 at 8:24 pm · Reply
bObO
Likewise Gabby of Benny Hill.

February 24, 2009 at 8:25 pm · Reply
gvb
Ravenilli is half Imperial Guard.

February 25, 2009 at 10:26 am · Reply
gvb
*Ravanelli

February 25, 2009 at 10:27 am · Reply
bObO
I’d like to see Tom Taylor get really creative and do a Luke McCormick one.

February 25, 2009 at 3:04 pm · Reply
justinemaeperez
nice.. hehehe…

May 5, 2009 at 10:13 pm · Reply
justinemaeperez
nice..
beautiful..

May 5, 2009 at 10:14 pm · Reply