Nice story

[Metalmicky]

Sixteen-year-old Michael Noonan struck a memorable winner on his debut for Shamrock Rovers as the Irish side beat Molde in the first leg of their Conference League play-off.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cly70e8zl32t

and his goal...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB82zXauJRc

He was also the player to get brought down for the sending off for Molde.

[Pancho Regan]

Yes I saw that Metalmicky and as you say, what a great story.

I used to have a passing interest in Shamrock Rovers when I was a young lad.
This was simply because me and our kid would spend hours playing Subbuteo, and every penny of pocket money or birthday money would go on buying a new 'team'.
Of course we would maximise the use of each team by alternating them between different clubs which had the same kit.
 
Our kid bought Celtic and the only other team they could be was Shamrock Rovers!

I'll always remember the time they thrashed Man Utd 8-2 ........

[scawsby steve]

I loved Subbuteo, and had a Rovers' team with the strip of the early 1950s, which was white shirts with red collars and numbers, black shorts, and black, red, and white socks.

Although I say it myself, I was bloody good at it.

[Pancho Regan]

I loved Subbuteo, and had a Rovers' team with the strip of the early 1950s, which was white shirts with red collars and numbers, black shorts, and black, red, and white socks.

Although I say it myself, I was bloody good at it.

Brilliant SS!

I got into Subbuteo thanks to my eldest brother who posts on here as graingrover.
He used to play the game as a kid but was too much older than me and my other brother to play with us, and he left home before I can remember.
However he bought us our first Subbuteo set and handed on his old Subbuteo pitch to us and that’s the pitch we played the game on for many years.

I still have the pitch and it is still playable.

Graingrover will verify, but I estimate that pitch is now around 70 years old.

A question for you Scawsby Steve:
Subbutteo was marketed as a ‘table top’ game but we NEVER played it on the table. We always cleared the room and spread the pitch out on the carpet.
How about you?

[drfchound]

I loved Subbuteo, and had a Rovers' team with the strip of the early 1950s, which was white shirts with red collars and numbers, black shorts, and black, red, and white socks.

Although I say it myself, I was bloody good at it.

Brilliant SS!

I got into Subbuteo thanks to my eldest brother who posts on here as graingrover.
He used to play the game as a kid but was too much older than me and my other brother to play with us, and he left home before I can remember.
However he bought us our first Subbuteo set and bequeathed his old Subbuteo pitch to us and that’s the pitch we played the game on for many years.

I still have the pitch and it is still playable.

Graingrover will verify, but I estimate that pitch is now around 70 years old.

A question for you Scawsby Steve:
Subbutteo was marketed as a ‘table top’ game but we NEVER played it on the table. We always cleared the room and spread the pitch out on the carpet.
How about you?

Pancho, I was also a devoted subbuteo player.
I got my first set for Christmas when I was about ten or eleven years old.
I also played on the carpet, not to table top.
Over the next few years I got lots of teams, floodlights, fence for round the pitch, stands, scoreboard plus extra characters like team manager and refs and linesmen etc.
I spent hours playing and had leagues.
Sometimes I would play games against  mates who were also into subbuteo.
After a while I packed it all away and eventually about fifty odd years, sold it all on eBay.
By the way, I also had a subbuteo cricket game.

[scawsby steve]

I loved Subbuteo, and had a Rovers' team with the strip of the early 1950s, which was white shirts with red collars and numbers, black shorts, and black, red, and white socks.

Although I say it myself, I was bloody good at it.

Brilliant SS!

I got into Subbuteo thanks to my eldest brother who posts on here as graingrover.
He used to play the game as a kid but was too much older than me and my other brother to play with us, and he left home before I can remember.
However he bought us our first Subbuteo set and bequeathed his old Subbuteo pitch to us and that’s the pitch we played the game on for many years.

I still have the pitch and it is still playable.

Graingrover will verify, but I estimate that pitch is now around 70 years old.

A question for you Scawsby Steve:
Subbutteo was marketed as a ‘table top’ game but we NEVER played it on the table. We always cleared the room and spread the pitch out on the carpet.
How about you?

Carpet every time. I've even heard of people buying accessories like grandstands, and fully operational floodlights. Now that's enthusiasm.

I've even heard of Subbuteo leagues. If I was younger, I think I'd want a bit of that.

[Pancho Regan]

I loved Subbuteo, and had a Rovers' team with the strip of the early 1950s, which was white shirts with red collars and numbers, black shorts, and black, red, and white socks.

Although I say it myself, I was bloody good at it.

Brilliant SS!

I got into Subbuteo thanks to my eldest brother who posts on here as graingrover.
He used to play the game as a kid but was too much older than me and my other brother to play with us, and he left home before I can remember.
However he bought us our first Subbuteo set and bequeathed his old Subbuteo pitch to us and that’s the pitch we played the game on for many years.

I still have the pitch and it is still playable.

Graingrover will verify, but I estimate that pitch is now around 70 years old.

A question for you Scawsby Steve:
Subbutteo was marketed as a ‘table top’ game but we NEVER played it on the table. We always cleared the room and spread the pitch out on the carpet.
How about you?

Pancho, I was also a devoted subbuteo player.
I got my first set for Christmas when I was about ten or eleven years old.
I also played on the carpet, not to table top.
Over the next few years I got lots of teams, floodlights, fence for round the pitch, stands, scoreboard plus extra characters like team manager and refs and linesmen etc.
I spent hours playing and had leagues.
Sometimes I would play games against  mates who were also into subbuteo.
After a while I packed it all away and eventually about fifty odd years, sold it all on eBay.
By the way, I also had a subbuteo cricket game.

Hound, you had me until you sold it all on e-bay mate!
What you had was priceless!

What remains of our set is in my loft. We too had the perimeter fence (totally superfluous), floodlights (why?!), scoreboard, replica FA Cup, European Cup etc.

Not many people know that Doncaster Rovers actually won the European Cup in 1967, beating Mansfield Town (aka Sweden) 6-3 in the final having knocked out Real Madrid (aka Leeds United & Swansea) in the semis.

[drfchound]

I loved Subbuteo, and had a Rovers' team with the strip of the early 1950s, which was white shirts with red collars and numbers, black shorts, and black, red, and white socks.

Although I say it myself, I was bloody good at it.

Brilliant SS!

I got into Subbuteo thanks to my eldest brother who posts on here as graingrover.
He used to play the game as a kid but was too much older than me and my other brother to play with us, and he left home before I can remember.
However he bought us our first Subbuteo set and bequeathed his old Subbuteo pitch to us and that’s the pitch we played the game on for many years.

I still have the pitch and it is still playable.

Graingrover will verify, but I estimate that pitch is now around 70 years old.

A question for you Scawsby Steve:
Subbutteo was marketed as a ‘table top’ game but we NEVER played it on the table. We always cleared the room and spread the pitch out on the carpet.
How about you?

Pancho, I was also a devoted subbuteo player.
I got my first set for Christmas when I was about ten or eleven years old.
I also played on the carpet, not to table top.
Over the next few years I got lots of teams, floodlights, fence for round the pitch, stands, scoreboard plus extra characters like team manager and refs and linesmen etc.
I spent hours playing and had leagues.
Sometimes I would play games against  mates who were also into subbuteo.
After a while I packed it all away and eventually about fifty odd years, sold it all on eBay.
By the way, I also had a subbuteo cricket game.

Hound, you had me until you sold it all on e-bay mate!
What you had was priceless!

What remains of our set is in my loft. We too had the perimeter fence (totally superfluous), floodlights (why?!), scoreboard, replica FA Cup, European Cup etc.

Not many people know that Doncaster Rovers actually won the European Cup in 1967, beating Mansfield Town (aka Sweden) 6-3 in the final having knocked out Real Madrid (aka Leeds United & Swansea) in the semis.

That is some achievement Pancho, who would have thought it was possible.
Living the dream eh.
I did get much more than I thought I would have done when I sold all the stuff, people were bidding way above what I had put it on at initially but I hadn’t used it for ages and was happy to see it go.
I did actually play one or two games in my bedroom will the “big light” off and the floodlights on but it wasn’t great for finding the ball when it went off the pitch.

[Draytonian III]

I had a five or seven a side ( can’t remember which ) Subbuteo set, it had cardboard walls about 2 inches high and curved plastic corners so you make the ball travel around, like an ice puck does. It came with two teams, one blue shirts white shirts like Everton and with Red shirts white shorts like Man Utd, this was in early 1970’s. I wanted a different team colour so I went to the local Co-op toy department with my birthday or Christmas money a team I liked the kit of Hamilton Acc, red and white hoops, this would have about 4 years before I ever set foot inside Belle Vue.

[knockers]

I had the Melchester Rovers team from Roy of the Rovers where they all looked like the individual players.
Bizarrely I also bought the Zaire national team!

As well as the original cloth pitch I also had the astroturf one but it was rubbish as wouldn’t stay flat unless anchored down at each corner and the ball didn’t run right on it.

Tv towers and dugouts were also part of my collection.

Simple and good times

[Pancho Regan]

I had a five or seven a side ( can’t remember which ) Subbuteo set, it had cardboard walls about 2 inches high and curved plastic corners so you make the ball travel around, like an ice puck does. It came with two teams, one blue shirts white shirts like Everton and with Red shirts white shorts like Man Utd, this was in early 1970’s. I wanted a different team colour so I went to the local Co-op toy department with my birthday or Christmas money a team I liked the kit of Hamilton Acc, red and white hoops, this would have about 4 years before I ever set foot inside Belle Vue.

We had the 5-a-side (or maybe 7?) set aswell Draytonian but never enjoyed it half as much as the full version.

You must have been psychic buying Hamilton Accie!