Match Attax!

Now this is a weird one; I hate football. Well hate is a strong word, I love it when my team won the sweepstake in the World Cup and netted me £70, but apart from that I don't get the attraction of seeing a whole load of overpaid guys running about after a ball. Then came MatchAttax. Apparently these have been about for a while, and Maya has been on about them for ages, collecting a few, doing a few swaps at school, but not really knowing why and what for.

Eventually she convinced me to get her the collection tin and storage book for somewhere to put her collection so far and we had a couple of games to find out what it was like. It is sort of like Top Trumps - you select your players and lay them out in a 2 attackers, 4 midfielders and 4 defenders with 1 goalie. Then a player selects a card to attack with by tapping the back of the card and the defending player selects a card they hope will deflect the "shot". The attacker reads out their cards Attack score whilst the defender reads out the Defence score. If the attack is higher, a goal is scored otherwise it is deflected.

This is continued back and forth until all the cards are expended; it's also possible to Sub in up to 3 players and use once per game a Managers defence/attack score to bolster up a "just missed" score.

In all, an enjoyable little game that is perfect for younger and older kids alike.

Here we go, here we go, here we go......