P is for Posh Tiddlywinks!

We've seen the figures once or twice in comparisons or H is for . . . 's, but here is the whole game, with .gif! Wadington's Table Soccer, a football game in a board-game box, but not really a 'board' game.

The box, as we've seen the figures before the artwork's depiction of the player might come as a bit of a surprise as it shows a reasonable rendition of a chap in 'footie bags' waiting for the whistle, yet we know the actual playing pieces are more . . .

. . . blob-like! However, casting back to the previous shot - this is because it turns out they are, or need to be; robust 'sticks' for firing tiddlywinks! Although this was in storage I'd forgotten that basic element of the game, it's a fancy version of tiddlywinks!

The likelyhood of them breaking (and you often find them either broken or glued near the ankles (occasionally missing a head!), lead to a spare on each side, and the chap I introduced as a referee previously is - in fact - the goal-keeper, or 'pair' of goal keepers! I put an extra figure for each team in years ago, just 'cos I had them.

4-4-2 v 5-2-3!

A .gif which shows first all the components of the tray and then a set-up for a match with the 'casualty substitutes' placed with 2 spare 'balls' on the far touchline - well; you might lose one under the skirting-board!

Note also that the playing 'board' is not the usual hardback book-binders heavy card, but something more akin to washing-powder box card, which folds in three, and the goals clip to each end with a pair of little studs.

What she thinks of Deadbeat Hairstrand's meme!

You see me here, you see me there, you see me pretty-much everywhere! I was . . . err . . . looking for . . . stuff! Yeah! That's it, I was looking for stuff; he keeps complaining about all the stuff so I thought I'd check-see if there was any stuff to remove!

The lawn is looking more like an Arizonan 'yard' after the weird weather we've had this year!