Table Football

[rah]

check this site.

http://members.aol.com/foosballUK/home.htm

headline...
FOOSBALL UK TABLE FOOTBALL INFORMATION

Is this it?

[Worthingtons]

You got it Rah, Cheers

Who calls it Foosball

[MikeH]

Originally posted by Boddington's
90% of pubs have a pool table.

Not in Reading they don't. Too many crap town center chain pubs. Hardly any of them have tables.

[TheStinger]

No one in this country had heard of foosball until friends came along. I got Table FOOTBALL as a christmans present in the 1970's

[Worthingtons]

I've only been in one pub in Reading, fortunatly that had a pool table

[MikeH]

That's true, I never heard the term Foosball before Friends.

[MikeH]

Actually it's real name is Deutcher Meister:

[Worthingtons]

Damn this euro stuff

[Sava]

Sorry, I don't know much about marketing or jobs in Chicago... I'm still in college...

[Worthingtons]

Do you like it there tho?
How does it compare to New York or any other East Coast Cities?

[rah]

I've never heard it called anything but Foosball.
Even back in the 70's.

The killer score move has always been to do the inside pass between your men in the front row back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, (as many times as it takes to get the goalie out of position), then wrist slam it home. All the best players here can do it and it is quite effective. It takes a great defenseman to stop it consistently.

[Sava]

I've never lived any where else... the weather is the worst part... cold, snowy winters... warm humid summers... BLACH

Chicago is great, though!! Restaurants, museums, sports, entertainment... it's got it all. I can't compare it to NY because I've never been. But the best part is, we don't have New Yorkers here.

[rah]

The biggest difference is that Chicago has Alleys, so all the dumpsters are behind the resturants instead of right next to the entrance. That single fact has ruined many a dining experience for me in New York. It also makes Chicago appear to be a much cleaner city.

[Sava]

and plus... where else can you find rah, Ming and ME in the same metro area!!

[Worthingtons]

The killer score move has always been to do the inside pass between your men in the front row back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, (as many times as it takes to get the goalie out of position), then wrist slam it home. All the best players here can do it and it is quite effective. It takes a great defenseman to stop it consistently.

Disagree, I use this move this all the time, but a good player can read it, combined with a stepover or another such simular trick and it might fool a good player. To someone who doesnt play it looks wonderful and people think it's an amazing skill but in reality this move is too easy to antipate (the exception is where you can use your strikers very effectively to hit the ball diagonally, which is something i am not great at).