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PATRICK KIDD

ALIVE AND FLICKING
PATRICK KIDD
THE KEY TO PREPARING A CHAMPION football team is to give your players’ bottoms a vigorous rub before kick-off. They like a wax, too. “They should glide like a hovercraft,” the England manager said as he gave his team a buff before sending them out in a 1-8-1 formation to face a football that was almost as tall as they are. They went in search of history, these inch-high Lions, hoping to be the first England team to win their World Cup and on home Astroturf too. SUBBUTEO was coming home. Three hundred competitors had come from 26 countries, including Tunisia, Ukraine and Brazil, to Tunbridge Wells, a place that is to flick-powered football what Broadhalfpenny Down is to cricket. Subbuteo was invented in 1946 by PETER ADOLPH in the nearby…
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