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Best For Fun (Garlando G500 Football Table) |
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 Why should table football be limited solely to drunken nights at the local when the Garlando G500 brings the quality, build and appeal of coin-op tables to the home? If you love your football but lack Terry’s tenacity and Rooney’s ruthlessness, this is the perfect complement to a lad’s night in. |
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The trouble with table football has always been that outside of thousand-pound-plus pub machines (you know the ones – always peppered with cigarette burns and rogue lager from over-exuberant onlookers) the home-purchase tables have unanimously been wobblier on their feet than most of us after a night on the tiles. Which is why the Garlando G500 is like a breath of fresh air to the "sport" – an injection of Gerrard in a team of geriatrics if you will.
Recently voted the best table football under £1,000 by the world’s best-selling gadget and technology magazine, Stuff, the Garlando G500 seems to be developing quite a footie following, and when you think its price comes closer to a quarter of that four-figure mark, you can see why. |
Team Effort |
 Garlando is one of the leading manufacturers of football tables in the world and the G500 really demonstrates why. Crafted with amazing solidity from a heady combination of chunky wood, even chunkier metal and the necessary splattering of plastic (crafted of course into two semi-static teams of football players), this is designed and built to last a lifetime. Every square inch is finished in an easy-to-clean surface too, so the inevitable beer spillage won’t take its toll on the table’s performance.
The metal bars used to control your rows of Moplen moulded red and blue players are forged from cold drawn steel and are solid and sturdy enough to withstand even the most fervent pulling, pushing and twisting as you strive to take down the opposition. Plated in chromium to prevent rusting and using nylon brushes with ball bearings to prevent excessive wear and tear, every last detail has been considered in construction to ensure the guaranteed mayhem of team tournaments isn’t greeted with a broken table and crows of disappointment. To back this up, Garlando offers a two-year warranty on the G500. Reassuring. |
The Numbers |
 Delivered as a flat pack and needing two men to carry it due to the Garlando’s weight (76kg) and solidity, you will need to construct it yourself, but it’s not too tricky a job (if we can manage it, you definitely can).
Dimensions of the table in case you want to check it’ll fit in your lounge (though it may be best to check that with the missus first) are (LxWxH): 143x76x88cm, with the actual playing field measuring 120x70cm.
Online gadget guru site Tech Digest recently voted the Garlando G500 the number one essential accessory to the new footie season, and we’d have to agree. Now all you need to decide is whether you’re a red or a blue …
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