Table Football Monthly: Lockdown Special Part 3

[@jr7077]

Genuinely superb - great to see such passion. Bravo.

[@billthomas8205]

Thank you so much, Keith - in these weird times you surely count as a key worker for keeping us informed, entertained & educated. Truly the highlight of the week!

[@TableTopYears]

Thanks Bill...my wife has many alternative names but I'm going with yours. Keith

[@thegaffer]

Thanks Keith for continuing to produce these fantastic episodes. It's one of my favorite shows to watch (on TV or elsewhere). Informative and entertaining - the perfect combination.

[@thecontractor365]

Best show on any platform....👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. And thanks for the full length intro...⚽️⚽️⚽️.

[@TableTopYears]

Pleasure...made me chuckle when I stitched the full theme in.

[@philipeccles6032]

Really appreciate the time and effort from yourself and all contributors. Great to have something like this to watch, taps into football nostalgia and childhood joys of Subbuteo. Still play Subbuteo although due to various pitch is boxed up for the moment, the recreations are amongst my favourite segments, to have the commentary whilst it all happens on a Subbuteo pitch is wonderful - Thank you

[@TableTopYears]

Thanks Philip...it's a challenge making commentary and speed of play match but immense fun. You'll notive I've never included a game with a bicycle kicked goal. haven't worked that one out yet. Keith

[@garypritchett8136]

Great show as ever. As a youngster playing the game, I never really noticed the switch over from zombie to lightweight, I just enjoyed playing. Nothing like the excitement of going into town to buy a new team. Had some of the happiest times of my 10-16 yr old days playing the game. I’m a villa fan and my mate was Blues, although we played Subbuteo hundreds of times, we never played that particular fixture too often for the risk of it getting too competitive and us falling out!. Happy days. UTV

[@barryhogan3795]

Keith fantastic show as ever, you realise we are not going to want to go back to once a month after this. You are certainly bringing a bit of normality to my housebound life. stay safe and take care

[@martinshipman3260]

Cheers me up no end when these videos come out!

[@mcnab4236]

Thank you so much for making these great videos! Just started collecting again ❤️❤️

[@eoinagnewmusic7538]

It was birthday today, and this was the cherry on top - thanks so much Keith!

[@leeradford2024]

keep up the great work.fab show and some great nostalgia .

[@JP-cq5um]

Hello, I'm a boy from Portugal, I loved your video as always. I and my father love to play subbuteo but we always end up arguing because when shooting on goal it ends up leaving its position and we couldn't know if it was a goal or not then we were upset with each other. They could offer two metal goals to not create so much confusion. I would be very happy if they invited me, a hug from Portugal.

[@ulli1895]

Keith, as long as you deliver more Lockdown Specials, the lockdown gets really special. Missing Smiffy and of course Danielle in the programm though. Thanks to Trevor Spencer as well. Great show again :-)

[@shantydoctor]

Another great edition Keith, cinematic recreation! Really great info on the player types. A real lockdown cheer up, thanks dude

[@eslermanu47]

I AM 73 AND JUST BROUGHT DOWN FROM THE ATTIC MY 1957 SUBBUTEO PLAYERS AND PITCH I HAVE THE OLD WIRE GOALPOSTS AND THE FLAT PLASTIC PLAYERS

[@jimmer1159]

Brilliant as usual Keith , have to say some of those lightweight kits do look great on the pitch!!!

[@rebelwriteruk]

just watched ur last 3 lockdown videos as ive just subscribed. I had a smile to myself when you asked the competition question in part 1 about Jim Cumbes. As a Villa fan for my sins since birth (thanks to my Dad for that) I remember him well, his was affectionately known as Dracula due to inherent fear of crosses, he was a tall Keeper but catching a cross was something he never mastered lol. When Ron Saunders came to Villa My Dad wrote to him to ask if I could meet the players, we were invited to the Bodymoor Heath training ground to watch. At the end of the training session the training staff were putting crosses in whilst Keith leonard challenged Jim for the ball. needless to say Jim Cumbes was consistently catching the cross to my amazement. When I met him after as a cheeky 13 year old, I asked him how come he dropped so many catches in matches? He ruffled my hair laughed and said its a game plan. then walked away. Well it worked cus we got promoted and won the league cup that seson.

[@TableTopYears]

I saw him play a few times - can't ever remember being disappointed but do remember the big cheer everytime he launched one of his long throws

[@phillkemp7491]

Great video, more fascinating info on the great game. It,s a credit to you that you continue to put it together, I,m sure we all look forward to it on a Saturday, there,s some debate there on which player sets are best, all mine are heavyweights from when I was young. Stay safe, looking forward to the next one

[@leebradley8672]

Thanks Keith another Great Show Love it. Take Care m8 👍👍

[@georgefcht]

I met David Fairclough at Anfield last year and got him to sign the match programme with those commentary words. Amazingly, he said no one has ever asked him to sign it like that before. It's the thing he's most famous for!

[@davidhunter8049]

Brand new fan here,love the vids. Keep up the good work and stay safe 😁😁😁

[@KebabMusicLtd]

Wow, what a strange episode. At 11.52, the photograph shows my Uncle George Cummins (visible Luton Player, far right): 13.00, my namesake Gerry Byrne is featured and to top it all off, the revelation of 1961 (the year of my birth) and the introduction of 00. scale plastic figures. Lockdown really was a strange time...

[@sixsix60s]

A presentation on the 90s boxes, in various editions i am sure you own, would definitely be interesting as well. Some kind of “unboxing “. There also people my generation who grew up with LW and never heard of the HW before the internet :)

[@maryculnane7506]

Love your vid's ,so glad you're doing this.👊karate Tim.👊.

[@pierrechastenais5609]

at:30:10: NASL subbuteo from the 80s!!! Sting vs Whitecaps!!!

[@jamiebroughman5626]

thanks all cheers to another great round

[@horstdeimel]

Yeah yeah, back in 1988, ...what a time, ...in sports table football ! I played the ETE Europa Cup Final vs Willy Hofmann in Salzburg, Austria! Like all the other top players, Marc Clairbois (B), Gerhard Ecker (A) and Martiin Bom (NL) I lost in the Final. Results to be found on the www,fistf.com page in datacentre.

[@michaelgale8458]

Absolutely magical experience

[@sunshinecoastsubbuteo799]

Nice work again Keith

[@michaelmogan5563]

What was the band? What was the children's tv channels? you have us intrigued! And who the on earth gave a thumbs down.... Rogue!!!!

[@TableTopYears]

Hello Michael - answered you via email.

[@carlosjuliorodriguezcaball7146]

Gooool. El casino de pillela en KZbin

[@choforogarcia2498]

I would like to purchase the game!

[@vitorianus2408]

people just one question, is it also worth brazilian because i'm loving the channel and the subbuteo itself?

[@ROWZED22]

Thanks, once again

[@ROWZED22]

As evra, extremely informative. A Subbuteo history degree should be on the national curriculum

[@ralphpomeroy3690]

Not sure about the 'fragile' flats ,in almost fifty years I've probably seen less than ten broken ...they are actually very resilient , the bases don't warp like heavyweights, no limbs to break,no weights or inner disks to work loose and no soft legs like the lightweights ... what you do need to try is an FF ball and NN goals with the old fellas in place of the beach ball

[@TableTopYears]

Thanks Ralph - you're certainly correct about the bases. I have a nice collection of lonesome immaculate bases :) I've had a handful snap at the join with the base which is so frustrating as replacements are so hard to find but I've put some padded flooring tiles around the base of the table now!

[@ralphpomeroy3690]

@@TableTopYears well that is a fair point it is best to play somewhere carpeted ...plus if someone has straightened them in the incorrect way the legs can weaken ...the right way involves a heavy book .. a glass of Jameson's ...a cigar ....and a gas hob .. never fails 😂

[@TableTopYears]

@@ralphpomeroy3690 That's useful. I have been guilty of trying to straighten - mid game - with a little flexing of the player (never thought that through). I'm off to place a few of them under the O.E.D now. I was going to use a fine tome called 'All I know about Table Football' but not sure a postcard will do the trick! Thanks for getting in touch.

[@martynwilliams3765]

Oh you just did 😁😁

[@Nuttybott]

Thanks once again for another great show Keith. Enjoyed the feature about lightweights, although I have to admit that as a child of the 70s, the LWs never really did it for me. I never liked the hollow 'clunking' sound when they connect with the ball, as opposed to the solid and satisfying 'click' a HW makes. And the more accurate and detailed machine printing of the kits (even down to elaborate designs/sponsors' logos etc) might have been a delight, if it weren't for the fact that from the 80s onwards clubs have changed their kit designs so bloody often that any new design becomes obsolete almost immediately... certainly within one season in most cases. No, give me the 70s and HWs any day of the week - the painting may not be as accurate, but the figure itself is far better, without sponsors' logos the kits can often double up as several different teams (I hate sponsors' logos on football shirts anyway), and the HW figure has a much more realistic and convincing pose, unlike the LW which to me looks knock-kneed. 🙂

[@mod7930]

I agree. The HW figure is aesthetically bang-on. The kits mid-60's to early 70's look superb. Check out the photos of the Everton players kits (around 18 minutes) in part 2 of the lockdown special.

[@martynwilliams3765]

You never mention the zombies I wonder why

[@slayerplauge]

man that check in the cup final was blatant and planned - disgusting play