Me too. It even gets a mention in the opening chapter of my next book:-
The competitive fix was provided by a ten team-strong Subbuteo league in which myself and nine of my schoolmates played a whole season on a home and away basis. There were no baying crowds of course to provide home advantage but a subbuteo pitch placed strategically on a bumpy stretch of bedroom carpet was worth its weight in gold. I had a particularly tricky foot-long ridge in my bedroom along which my right winger used to give opposing left backs a torrid time.
One guy was not so fortunate with home advantage though because his mother was so house-proud she wouldn’t let us play in his house. I bet they had no kinks in their carpet anyway so it probably didn’t do him any harm playing all his matches away from home.
