Orange ball

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  1. Merde Tete

    Merde Tete Well-Known Member

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    Do they still exist? (outside of people's old Subbuteo sets) Or are they obsolete, due to the fact that any match taking place within a 50 mile radius of any snowfall is automatically postponed?
     
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    An orange ball is far too sensible for the EFL to use plus it wouldn't have nike or adidas stupid multi coloured designs on it.
    I watched either a champions league game highlights last night, or it might have been Libertadores where the ball was like a mucky silver.
     
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    my uncle don ( long gone) used to have orange golf balls for playing in snow/frost at hickleton gc
     
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    I suffered from that recently. I blame chicken tikka massala.
     
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    A yellow ball used to come into use from November until about March a few years back.
    If I remember this right......?
     
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    Yeah it did.
     
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    Didcot Red Well-Known Member

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    Subbuteo was a very good game. The one fault was the size of the ball. It was the same height as the players. Even the smaller ball was about 60% as high as the players.

    “they swing and they swerve as they weave on their way.”
     
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    Merde Tete Well-Known Member

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    Yep, it was a bit odd. Although had it been to scale, it would have been roughly the size of a frozen pea!
     
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    Merde Tete Well-Known Member

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    Yep, was thinking about that the other day. Not sure when that was abandoned.
     
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    It's still the case that the Premier league uses a 'winter' ball from Nov to Mar. It's not yellow but is more visible.

    The EFL doesn't bother.
     
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    They would if someone paid them a big enough back hander.
     
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