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The table football game is born in Tunbridge Wells

Mark's father Peter and the lads get stuck in to a game of Subbuteo

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Mark Adolph's father Peter invented the game Subbuteo. It was just after the war - there were other footie games around - blow football, magnetic football and a table football game called New Footie but Peter thought he could go one step better and busied himself in the shed.

Mark came into our Tunbridge Wells studio to tell David how it all started. 


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