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Daniel Hall

Danish football board game at Newcastle Christmas Market hopes to capitalise on World Cup Fever

Those scratching their heads for what to get the football fan in their life from Newcastle's Christmas Market have an option that hasn't been seen in the city before.

The team behind Pundit, a Danish board game which aims to combine football nostalgia and trivia, has a stall on the green at Old Eldon Square. With the aim of getting it to your striker and scoring a goal by answering one of 900 questions, they are hoping to capitalise on World Cup fever, even though Denmark fell at the group stage.

And though it's available to buy online, there are a few reasons that Newcastle has been chosen to promote the game further. The first is that Aodhan Brownlee, the UK manager who helped translate the game from Danish, is from the region - even though he doesn't speak the language.

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