England is, unsurprisingly, a very common team in the Subbuteo world. As such it can throw up a number of variations. Here we see an away strip, machine printed with added hand painted trim. Amongst the home strips we have a hand painted version, pale short version and base variation.
Admiral was a cool kit manufacturer back in the mid seventy's and supplied a number of clubs. It's fair to say that many of the kits they went on to produce became iconic and reached legendary status. To my mind some of the best Subbuteo teams are the ones wearing Admiral. Aberdeen, Coventry, Luton Town and West Ham all wore classic admiral kits. Check out a more comprehensive range on John Devlin's fantastic
True Colours website.
England greats Kevin Keegan, Trevor Brooking, Mick Channon and Glenn Hoddle wore the strips featured on the references 317 and 231 between 1974 and 1981. I got my own replica England home strip around 1976 as a birthday present, it was very expensive. I still remember my mum wanted me to choose a different kit, no doubt because of the high price tag, but I was an insistent and selfish little boy - sorry mum.
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| Reference 321 - England away |
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| Reference 317 - England home hp |
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| Reference 317 - England home blank disc mp |
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| Reference 317 - England home pale short |
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| Reference 317 - England home white base |
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