Subbuteo table cricket required a large area, preferably one where china ornaments could not be shattered by the sort of pulverising hits Chris Gayle can only dream about.

Cricket and rugby versions were also produced, but were much less popular. The most common score in Subbuteo cricket was six byes, due to the vagaries of the bowling contraption's line and length.

KENT, England – With a quivering finger, England Subbuteo veteran Rudi Peterschinigg conceded the free kick that sent his country’s World Cup quarter-final into extra time before smashing his ...

For non-UK readers, or those too young to remember, Subbuteo was a hugely popular pastime constituting a set of table-top games such as football (soccer), cricket, rugby and hockey.

Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom: With a quivering finger, England Subbuteo veteran Rudi Peterschinigg conceded the free-kick that sent his country's World Cup quarter-final into extra-time before ...

A SUBBUTEO superfan had to move to a bigger house before his wife blew the whistle on his collection. Stewart Grant, 39, has more than 600 different teams.

With a quivering finger, England Subbuteo veteran Rudi Peterschinigg conceded the free-kick that sent his country’s World Cup quarter-final into extra-time before smashing his plastic goalkeeper on ...

BBC News meets the son of the man who invented Subbuteo, the famous table-top football game.

The problem, at least with Subbuteo Cricket, is that it was almost impossible to play. However tenderly you flicked the slingshot bowler over, he could never land ball on pitch, and the little ...

With a quivering finger, England Subbuteo veteran Rudi Peterschinigg conceded the free-kick that sent his country's World Cup quarter-final into extra-time before smashing his plastic goalkeeper ...

A world cup Subbuteo tournament, complete with a figure of injured England star Wayne Rooney on crutches, will "flick-off" on Saturday. Table football shop owner Tom Taylor has made a mini-Wayne, who ...

A SUBBUTEO superfan had to move to a bigger house before his wife blew the whistle on his collection. Stewart Grant, 39, has more than 600 different teams.