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What’s The Best Rules Version For Solo Play?

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It’s a question I’ve been asked a few times in the past, is there a version of the rules that can be used to play solo without much or any alterations. I’ll try to answer that from a personal point of view after discussing a few things first. After recently talking to a lifelong friend, Sean Taylor the conversation eventually got round to Subbuteo as it somehow always does when we get together. Sean and I both played for the same club during our youth, Sean played a little longer than myself at that level, and would probably be regarded as the better player, but that aside we both had a healthy passion for Subbuteo which is still with us to this day. Sean was saying that he was never interested in solo play until the Government locked us down, and stopped football. He quite quickly became obsessed with getting some kind of football fix. That is a very similar story to my own, and my reasons for starting to, or should I say attempting to play the game single handed. He and I