Quote Originally Posted by Mr Soul '68 View Post
The floodlights at Edgar Street always remind me of my first visit there, April 1977. As the floodlights came into view one wag on our coach remarked that they looked like Subbuteo floodlights. Cue the whole bus chanting for the next five minutes until we pulled up outside the ground 'Subbuteo!, Subbuteo!, Subbuteo!

No doubt they have changed a lot since then. Not been there since the mid 90s though

From memory we drew that game 2-2 and Robin Friday got sent off ?
Did you know that 'Subbuteo' is the scientific name for the bird we know as the 'hobby falcon?'.
The inventor of the eponymous game wanted to call the football game 'Hobby' but that would not be permitted by trademark authorities as it was an existing word that was generic and used across the board for many pastimes. The inventor then artfully found a different way to involve a version of the word 'hobby' in the product's name.