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I think mine is at parents place still - 1970s box, old square and new school goals and Southampton and Dundee United teams from what I can remember. Will ask when I call home this week. Hours of timewasting fun! Mine also fitted on my snooker table made it much more fun.

 

Testmatch was great and was a bugger to play if the pitch wasn't ironed first.

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As with a lot of things my parents never quite got me the right thing eg Raleigh Commando instead of a Grifter, sensible coat instead of a snorkel one and so it was with Subbuteo. I got Striker (iirc) instead where you pressed the players head down to make him kick the ball.

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Anyone remember this one? Great game...

 

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Tomy Electronic football, or something like that? Superb fun, although I remember that the footballs were tiny, so much time was spent looking for the football under furniture after a wayward long-range shot :-(

 

Also had Test Match Cricket (with the bowler who used a piece of gutter to bowl the ball!) and Cup Final (3-a-side football with a spring-kicking action, goalies who could throw the ball and a football made up of black and white hexagons) Good times, good times...

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Loved it as a kid, was in a league playing Saturday mornings round friends houses. Can still name my side with Bruce Oakes at centre back and Dave Handley at no 10 scored loads he did. The only problem being Greenstone winning the league every year and me coming 2nd......Jonny Harris wot a player!

 

Great memories, we all made up names for our players and took it in turns to host matches with awards given for best facilities and best refreshments, our mate Derek won that one as his Mum would make us a burger. We had a hardcore of five players in the league with an additional two joining us for the last season. Greenstone are up in the loft now but by coincidence I bought my nipper a Saints team for Christmas. Fancy getting the league going again ?

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Got to be the best boy's toy ever. Did I say toy? Far too serious to be called a toy.

 

I remember my dismay when Mum bought a new dining table. It was oval, which meant the corners of the pitch fell of the edge and corners had to be taken from where the penalty box joins the goal line.

 

Every team had an "Allan Ball"type short arse who had suffered multiple fractures and ended up glued to the base by his knees.

 

Cricket was decent enough game as well once you got the hang of it , perfect for when rain stopped play in the real game going on in the garden.

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Played this in the early 70's when at Glen Eyre secondary. There was a proper league set-up with two divisions of about 10 teams (if I remember rightly). Fixture lists were drawn up. Most of us had our pitches stuck down onto a sheet of hardboard - I had to carry mine what seemed like miles from the hardware shop in Swaythling all the way home which was a real effort for a small nipper! I've still got the pitch and some teams - I think the goals might be a bit broken now. I also remember having a linked fence around the perimeter, four battery driven floodlights and a scoreboard. Good memories. My sons have not shown any interest in it.

 

However, a bad memory that springs to mind was playing games at the home of one of the lads in the lower division. He lived with his Dad in a run-down council house. Games were played in the living room on a carpet that had been soiled many times by a pet cat (and possibly other things) and it stank to high heavens! Nice lad from a very poor family, but we didn't let on and suffered in silence to make sure he was able to take part.

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