It's nice to have more of a challenge on the gridfill this week. I'd call this a balanced puzzle. For anyone still struggling to get a toehold, take what the setter gives you, ie the long across entries. Work your way inwards.
Rossim, I have to correct you. Subbuteo is a 'table-top' football game, not a table football game. Examples of table football were Brighouse, Sokaball...and you'll still find the machines in some pubs, though they became unpopular with the pub business because they took up too much space and you couldn't put £200 into them in a minute. Do you remember Fred Trueman's weekend program about pub sports ?
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