FAR AWAY FOOTBALL

THE SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEANTOMOS KNOX looks at how football battles to flourish in the far-flung islands of Saint Helena, Tristan da Cunha, the Ascensions and Falklands 

FOOTBALL in England is changing: ticket prices are rising, and billionaire club owners are spending obscenely large sums of cash on footballers. However, on a series of remote islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, football continues to do what it does best: bring communities together.Saint Helena is best known as Napoleon Bonaparte’s island of exile – the great French general died there in 1821.Britis...

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