Two teams were randomly 632## before the more common 1997/98 new addition numbering 633## kicks off… Who knows why but this was Subbuteo under Hasbro I doubt they cared and pull numbers out of the hat probably…

As mention on previous pages because they kept the old range going adding 63 at the front means when the new numbered teams came around a common practice was to put the old number on new teams… of course that caused confusion i.e the ref 63319 West Ham that many wrongly believe is a version of a ref 752 thanks to the 63752 label… Another is 63335 Arsenal 2nd not one person who i know has one has it correctly labeled, all having the old 63743 numbering…

Annoyingly also mentioned in the Lw section Wimbledon with the Elonex Sponsor despite being a new kit and should have a 631## or 633## ended up on 63749 again annoyingly… As it was based on the 1997/1998 kit it should have gotten a 633## but of course as mention before this is Hasbro and they most likely cared little for any of this to make sense haha … so ill put it in this section…

A big thing you’ll notice is the heavy presence of English teams and little of anything else… when the next round of teams came out as 633## there wasn’t any foreign teams… you can really tell Hasbro was ready to pull the plug…


Finally the 2000/2001 teams got added to there previous number in the Hasbro range Except a few that got new numbers. Of which the Lw book wrongly puts Liverpool as 63316 which is wrong it was a new version of 63136… Just compare version A’s to B’s and see the quality drop off…


But this wasn’t always the case with Ref 63331 being the new number for Newcastle after the 1997/1998 home was weirdly 63277 number as you’ll see. Peter Upton Claims that the ref 63331 was originally used for a Newcastle Away kit for 1997/98… for the first time, and probably the only time, Peter Upton is Wrong on this case and the team never existed (Unless proof turns up). I talked to Carl Nelson who has collected all the Premier league and as a Newcastle fan has collected all Newcastle Teams and he says it never existed and there has never been any sightings of this supposed Newcastle Away…

The Final number ever used by Ref 63341 for Man city The last team made in the origianal run of Subbuteo 1947-2000/01



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