World

FAR AWAY FOOTBALL

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
22 January 2015

THE SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
TOMOS 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.
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