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SAINTS GO MARCHING IN

JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME
Pat McGuinness reports on how remote Saint Helena are preparing to test themselves on the international stage…

THE Inter Games in Anglesey in June may not be capturing much public attention, but it’s like the Champions League and World Cup rolled into one for the footballers of Saint Helena.
It will be the first time that a football team from the remote British Overseas Territory, situated around 1,950 kilometres west of Namibia in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean (and the island where Napoléon Bonaparte spent his last years in exile), will pl...

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