🇬🇧 EnglishFootball Strike vs Toy Soccer Cup: a free-kick duel, or the whole match?
One is a split-second shootout between striker and keeper. The other is a real match, seven players a side. Which one suits you?
The notebook
Long-form stories from behind the game: how things are built, what broke along the way, and what we learned about tabletop football. Written by Miguel Ángel Villar Alarcón, who builds the game — one article at a time.
🇬🇧 EnglishOne is a split-second shootout between striker and keeper. The other is a real match, seven players a side. Which one suits you?
🇬🇧 EnglishBoth are free, both run in the browser and both let two people play on one screen. One is a one-button laugh; the other is a whole football world.
🇬🇧 EnglishScore! Hero hands you a move to draw. Toy Soccer Cup hands you the whole match. An honest comparison, with every fact about Score! Hero taken from its own listing.
🇬🇧 EnglishSoccer Stars has over 100 million downloads. We made Toy Soccer Cup. Here is how they really compare — with every fact about Soccer Stars taken from its own store listing.
🇬🇧 EnglishOne European competition ran for sixteen years, was decided by a play-off at the Camp Nou — and UEFA still does not count it.
🇬🇧 EnglishNobody has ever taken the World Cup trophy home. And the FA Cup lifted at Wembley is the fifth cup to carry the name.
🇬🇧 EnglishThe 1930 final was played with one ball in the first half and a different one in the second. It only gets stranger from there.
🇬🇧 EnglishEverything about Subbuteo in one place: the rules, the pieces, the collecting, the history — and the odd fact that the game is named after a bird of prey.
🇬🇧 EnglishEvery history of table football starts in the 1920s. All of them are about eighteen centuries late.
