LONDON (Reuters) - A table football shop has found a worldwide market for its anatomically correct scale models of a seemingly unavoidable part of modern soccer: the streaker.

Tom Taylor, who runs a shop and website dedicated to the football game Subbuteo, told Reuters he had sold about 6,000 sets of three-quarter-inch high models of streakers and chasing policemen, since seeing a real-life streaker at a match in 1998 inspired him to start the range.

"They've got all the bits," Taylor said on Monday. "The women have got nipples and the blokes have got all the parts there."

"They are the best-selling accessory we've got," Taylor added. "You have referees, linesmen, supporters and policemen, but the streakers out-sell all of those by a good margin."

Customers from more than 20 countries, including Japan, Venezuela, Taiwan and Latvia had bought the sets, he said.

"Subbuteo is a flicking game. You flick figures around so you can easily organise a streaker chase, with the streaker having a flick and the policeman having a flick until the policeman hits the streaker and he's deemed to be arrested," Taylor said.

Taylor's shop sells a variety of male and female streakers, including a Champions League special edition streaker complete with a "See you Jimmy" hat for seven pounds. All sets come with a matching policeman of the same gender.

I've seen them. During a recent bout of nostalgia, I went looking through some of the subbuteo sites, and spotted them.

I hope these don't offend the nippers...

I don't know how but I knew you were going to post something like that !! LOL

Mmm, the figures look pretty erect, but the coppers seem to be Irish dancing. And what's all that white stuff they're standing in? The Subbuteo pitches were never as bad as Stamford Beach.

Yes! I was expecting a 'running' posture for some reason, things flapping about. Then I remembered none of the players ever looked like they were running.

Does any one of the policemen figures place his helmet in the traditional position?