As these articles are required to begin: "It was thirty years ago today..."
Thirty years since John Lennon was killed in New York.
Football and Music has more on the relationship between The Beatles and football - turns out they
weren't all that bothered. Although there is also a suggestion that Brian Epstein told them not to
make their allegiances clear to avoid upsetting the red or blue sides of Liverpool.
Instead of showing footage of matches from yesteryear as I usually do every Friday, I thought
I'd share a selection of videos about one of my favorite hobbies from childhood in the United
Kingdom. The table soccer game called Subbuteo.
In the above commercial (presumably from the 1960′s), it captures the excitement of a young
boy playing Subbuteo and imagining that he's playing like the professionals.
