Subbuteo 81472 L Campo UEFA Champions League Premium Pitch, Green, Ninguna

Its hard to know how to rate this pitch, as a veteran of everything from Sixties thick baize through cotton and rubbish nylon pitches to Astros by Pegasus and EW. If all you've had so far is the terrible nylon pitch from the Nineties, then this will delight you. However, it's far too thin to use on its own and needs a firm but thick layer underneath. It works best laid over an Astro but that's defeating the object, a bit like coating a gold bar in plastic. Its nowhere near as good as a similar price velour pitch by Paul Lamond which gives a good impression of an Astro at a third of the price. Straight onto a board you'll never get the ball to lift.

Having recently acquired the Winter pitch and being most impressed with it, I decided to add the Champions League pitch to my growing Subbuteo collection, however, where the Winter pitch was spot on in every way, the Champions League pitch was not, or at least not the TWO that I received, the playing surface and print quality was very good indeed, lays very nicely on my Astro Pitch and plays well, very similar to the Winter pitch, no problems there, my gripe was the quality of the actual cut of the fabric, it was far from the straight clean edge of the Winter pitch, it was very uneven and tatty in appearance, the 2 photos added were from the first CL pitch I received, and in honesty looked worse in reality than what the photo depicts, ultimately I was not happy with it so I returned it and purchased another, the second one I received again was not up to the finish of the Winter pitch but it was not as bad as the first one, it was much straighter, but still not the cleanest of cuts, this one I can live with, and if need be I'll clean up the cut myself...maybe I was unlucky and both came from a poorly checked batch(!?), which is a shame as it's otherwise a very nice pitch and at a great price currently with Amazon.

Thick and smooth. Plays really well.

Huge saving on this highly collectable Subbuteo pitch. Well made and delivered quickly and securely. Very pleased to be able to add this to my collection. Highly recommended.

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