Lausanne offers table football with a twist

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AFP) — The Swiss city of Lausanne, disappointed it would not be hosting a Euro 2008 game, found another way to celebrate the sport -- with artsy, offbeat "interactive" football tables.

Twenty-two artists and designers were invited to customise soccer tables -- based loosely on a popular European game called baby-foot or foosball -- to their own interpretation. Each table was then placed in a different place across this city on the banks of Lake Geneva.

The rules were simple but strict -- the artist could do anything as long as the public could play with the creation.

One designer tapped the sport's financial stakes, with players represented by stacks of fake Swiss banknotes -- the better the player, the bigger the denominations or the...