Things you don't see in football any more..

[Junior Senior]

Blood on shirts during the game

Tackles

That cure-all freeze spray the physios used to have

Snow piled up next to the pitch

Moustaches (actual proper ones that men from rotherham and red dog sport....not the stubbly ones with beard combo)

Managers smoking in the dug out.

[BorntoBubble]

the magic sponge? Where has this gone.

[TightEnd]

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128 team combined English and scottish cup where I cut out all the teams, did a draw and played them all on subbuteo, putting the slips of paper into the scoreboard and then playing as the better team with your younger borther the worse team

Trying to glue players together after you trod on them by accident, leaning over the grandstand and knocking it by mistake. Trying to make a save with the goalie and moving him so hard that the goal flew onto the floor....

You can Keep your FIFA2014!

[BorntoBubble]

ahhh endless hours spent playing that. Best football game ever!

[DungBeetle]

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128 team combined English and scottish cup where I cut out all the teams, did a draw and played them all on subbuteo, putting the slips of paper into the scoreboard and then playing as the better team with your younger borther the worse team

Trying to glue players together after you trod on them by accident, leaning over the grandstand and knocking it by mistake. Trying to make a save with the goalie and moving him so hard that the goal flew onto the floor....

You can Keep your FIFA2014!

Ha - I see you have posted a picture of a subutteo team preparing to defend an indirect freekick Tighty.  Keeper is going to have a red face when it balloons up off the first 2 guys in the monster wall and loops over him imo.

[The Camel]

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128 team combined English and scottish cup where I cut out all the teams, did a draw and played them all on subbuteo, putting the slips of paper into the scoreboard and then playing as the better team with your younger borther the worse team

Trying to glue players together after you trod on them by accident, leaning over the grandstand and knocking it by mistake. Trying to make a save with the goalie and moving him so hard that the goal flew onto the floor....

You can Keep your FIFA2014!

I bought Jake a Subbuteo set a couple of years ago.

His reaction after playing for a while?

"Worst game ever."

I nearly cried.

[The Camel]

Manchester United behind going into the last 10 5 2 minutes and everyone knowing it's a matter of when not if they will come back.

It was Liverpool of the 70s this was true if.

Never wanted to score too early against them in case it made them angry.

[Karabiner]

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128 team combined English and scottish cup where I cut out all the teams, did a draw and played them all on subbuteo, putting the slips of paper into the scoreboard and then playing as the better team with your younger borther the worse team

Trying to glue players together after you trod on them by accident, leaning over the grandstand and knocking it by mistake. Trying to make a save with the goalie and moving him so hard that the goal flew onto the floor....

You can Keep your FIFA2014!

I bought Jake a Subbuteo set a couple of years ago.

His reaction after playing for a while?

"Worst game ever."

I nearly cried.

Sacrilege!

My first Subbuteo set was pre-3d figures.

I'm deffo up for a game when I come for a visit.

[Tal]

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128 team combined English and scottish cup where I cut out all the teams, did a draw and played them all on subbuteo, putting the slips of paper into the scoreboard and then playing as the better team with your younger borther the worse team

Trying to glue players together after you trod on them by accident, leaning over the grandstand and knocking it by mistake. Trying to make a save with the goalie and moving him so hard that the goal flew onto the floor....

You can Keep your FIFA2014!

I bought Jake a Subbuteo set a couple of years ago.

His reaction after playing for a while?

"Worst game ever."

I nearly cried.

Sacrilege!

My first Subbuteo set was pre-3d figures.

I'm deffo up for a game when I come for a visit.

You must have had the original version where you drew your players with a piece of chalk on a slate, then.

[Karabiner]

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128 team combined English and scottish cup where I cut out all the teams, did a draw and played them all on subbuteo, putting the slips of paper into the scoreboard and then playing as the better team with your younger borther the worse team

Trying to glue players together after you trod on them by accident, leaning over the grandstand and knocking it by mistake. Trying to make a save with the goalie and moving him so hard that the goal flew onto the floor....

You can Keep your FIFA2014!

I bought Jake a Subbuteo set a couple of years ago.

His reaction after playing for a while?

"Worst game ever."

I nearly cried.

Sacrilege!

My first Subbuteo set was pre-3d figures.

I'm deffo up for a game when I come for a visit.

You must have had the original version where you drew your players with a piece of chalk on a slate, then.

They were just a strip of plastic which you had to glue to the base.

So almost...

[david3103]

Manchester United behind going into the last 10 5 2 minutes and everyone knowing it's a matter of when not if they will come back.

It was Liverpool of the 70s this was true if.

Never wanted to score too early against them in case it made them angry.

Were Liverpool decent in the 70s then? 

[Acidmouse]

Dad bought a huge box of old subbuteo teams from car boot last year for £5, i went on a collectors forum and I sold one team for £150 alone, there was also a few rugby teams that went for £40-50. Its all about the base and age apparently!

Things you don't see anymore at games is the mass panic before a game when people show up to pay at the gate with cash! we used to have to go early late 80s just to get in on time. Huge queues would form and so many people would panic.

You don't see the Flag (BNP Mag) being sold outside grounds like you used to.

I miss the real banter players would give back to the crowd when they got stick, seems a simple telling supporters the score or celebrating gets you in trouble now!

[DungBeetle]

I have some old subutteo world cup squads.  The ones where you got about 18 players - might pop on the collectors forum and see if they are worth anything.

Got some teams I imagine might be non-mainstream as well like Morroco, Bulgaria and Mexico.

They are probably too recent though from about mid 80s.

[Ant040689]

A ball that wouldn't move sideways in the air when it should be going straight.

[RedFox]

Hurling of bog rolls (usually nicked from local pubs)