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2021年8月16日 · Realising the polished figures could make lung-bursting runs – or at least the Subbuteo equal – Hofmann perfected a Klopp-esque system of devastating counter-attacks to win the 1986 World Cup.

Subbuteo was invented by Peter Adolph (1916–1994), who was demobbed from the Royal Air Force after the end of World War II. Searching for a new business opportunity he turned his attention to creating a new table-top football game.

Subbuteo was launched in March 1947. It was invented, manufactured and solely distributed by Peter A Adolph from his base in Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. The first sets were sold by mail order, and also at events such as the 1947 "Schoolboys Own Exhibition".

With shortages still in place after the Second World War, and little experience, it was not an easy task. The origin story of Subbuteo's invention as told by Peter Adolph was that cheques/postal orders for 7s 6d came flooding in as a result of his initial advert while he was in America.

The two one-hour DVDs are exclusively available from Subbuteo World (the button on the right will take you there) and I hope they'll not only bring back some great memories but will also bring the table-top story right up to date.

2012年12月9日 · The new set contains rubber players that remove the old Subbuteo annoyance of players with chunky ankles caused by over enthusiastic super gluing following a snapped ankle incident. I quickly snapped up a set, with the aim of setting it up at school as some sort of behaviour incentive for my difficult, but football mad, class of boys.

Both football and Subbuteo are international institutions that have grown side-by-side since the Second World War. Subbuteo was a football game Invented in 1947 by Peter Adolph from Kent, UK. As an ornithologist he wanted to call the game ‘The Hobby’ after a beautiful bird of prey from the Falcon family.

Subbuteo was invented by Peter Adolph (1916–1994), who was demobbed from the RAF after World War II. Searching for a business opportunity he turned his attention to creating a new table-top football game. He adapted his game from Newfooty, a game invented in 1929 by William Keeling of Liverpool.

2013年10月21日 · We’ll be devoting three separate posts to the subject with this first part looking at some of the company’s earliest adverts – including one from as far back as 1951, just four years after the first sets were made available commercially..