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Summer 2015 event
15/07/2015 20:14
I was unable to take part in the recent old subbuteo tournement at Stoke on Trent (it fell on my birthday) and a planned competition at Easter between members of the South Staffs TSC did not come off either, primarily due to illness of certain leading players, and work commitments (yes,...
Cannock Chase Tournement 2014
21/09/2014 18:24
Family illness and work commitments reduced the entries down from 10 to 6 at Hednesford Centenary Hall on Sunday 21st September 2014,but everyone got to play 5 games, and the Staffordshire Cup Final** was resolved at long last.
1st session Carl Bradbury ...
Analysis of team figures
06/09/2014 21:43
Like a sad sod that I am, I spent an hour compring the differences between the different types of Subbuteo teams with the following suprising results-
Bases Figures ...
Sunday 21st September 2014
06/09/2014 21:25
There will be a full meeting of the South Staffs Club at the Centenary Hall,Hednesford,Staffs on the above date from 2pm-4pm. Three boards will be made available,all real baize snooker cloth,although I am in the process of making myself a(nother) new board with fake Astroturf (Fablon...
South Staffs TSC to play at Hednesford Centenary Hall?
17/08/2014 20:01
Following discussions with Car and Sean Bradbury and Lee Morrall about the need to find a venue for matches,Mike has made enquiries about hiring a small room at Hednesford's Centenary Hall, next to the Catholic Church. By a remarkable turn of events, this was the very same venue which hosted the...
Stoke-on-Trent Open 2014
17/08/2014 19:53
A new tournement was put up by the newly formed North Staffs TSC at Clayton FC community hall on Sunday 10th August, and yours truly (Mike Bradbury) was unlucky not to win it. Winning five games on the trot and without conceding a single goal, he was up against veteran but still competing Colin...
Book about history of Subbuteo/Table Soccer in Staffordshire & Black Country
01/08/2014 13:31
Following a request from a former organiser of the Lichfield TSC to help out with their history, I have decided it was high time someone wrote the history of Staffordshire subbuteo, going back to the mists of time when Guy and Lance Smith and the Suttons had a club in Tamworth, and in 1970 joined...
New Rules spoil the game
01/06/2014 21:04
Each year new rules are put in force which continue to ruin the game as we knew it, and continues to alienate new players, and cause long-time players to turn their backs on the game they used to enjoy when the rules were sensible and football-based. For 40 years it was 2 positional flicks at a...
Knighton & Clun weekend
01/06/2014 20:24
Well, the long anticipated weekend to visit Tom Taylor (of the Woodentops shop and Lichfield TSC fame) and Guy N.Smith (founder of the Staffordshire Subbuteo Association in 1970 with Mike Bradbury) ended up as a disaster! A month in the planning as each new date proposed meant that somebody couldnt...
Meeting 16/3/14
16/03/2014 20:06
A meeting took place today in Rugeley, attended by Carl Bradbury (Rugeley),Mike Bradbury (Willenhall), Adam Bradbury (Walsall) and Elliot Bradbury (Halesowen). Also showing an interest were Adam's children, Nathaniel and Georgia.
Carl suprised Mike with his form and inflicted his first club defeat...