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In praise of - subbuteo.

BROWSING in a book shop yesterday, and trying not to act suspiciously lest it show up on the CCTV, I was stopped in my tracks.

There, on a display table, stood Subbuteo, a game I played in my early teens. Football mattered to me then, and I followed my local team's dogged misfortunes with a fervour that seems alien to me now.

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