The Heritage Cup is a tournament featuring unrecognised nations of the United Kingdom
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It was the first match of the Heritage Cup, featuring unrecognised nations of the United Kingdom. Kernow, the Cornish team, had to drop out because of a lack of funds to travel. Ellan Vannin, representing the Isle of Man, couldn’t put a team together. The boys from the Chagos islands, many of whom live in Crawley, stepped in, only to receive a 9-2 thrashing at the hands of Jersey.
The creation of “national” football teams for such places is a relatively new phenomenon. The Yorkshire team was set up in July 2017 and has played just seven matches. Parishes of Jersey was created last summer. Nor is it restricted to areas with a historical, readily recognised identity; Surrey has a team, too.
“For me, a lot of this was about saying to people in devolution politics, ‘Stop going to London cap in hand.’ Let’s promote Yorkshire as it is, not as part of England,” says Phil Hegarty, the team’s founder and chairman.“Not that there’s anything wrong with England.” Yorkshire has long had a strong regional identity, and has its own political outfit, the Yorkshire Party, which in the last general election won more votes than the Liberal Democrats in Wakefield.
There are no politics on the pitch. The crowd is good-natured. “This is the only chance these lads have to play international football,” says one supporter. Another pair of Yorkshire fans debate whether the Jersey team are “southern softies” or, worse, from “northern France”. The Yorkshire mascot, a man in a Viking outfit, applied for the gig on the basis of once playing Spiderman at a children’s party. He comes from Newcastle and lives in County Durham.
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