Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. My name is Joe Devine and today I was delighted to be

joined by Jimmy Farah. Jimmy is the manager of the Shagos FC or the Shagos Islands Football Club.

Now I didn't know what that was before last week. A friend of mine told me about it and I saw a comedian Mark Thomas tweeting about it and I read into the story. So a little bit of context before we get started with Jimmy. The Shagos Islands is in the Indian Ocean. I think it was part of the British Empire in colonial times, and it was never given back, right?

And in the 60s and 70s, the islanders, I mean, there's quite a lot of islands there, but the main one, the islanders from the main island were evicted by the British government so that they could build a military facility,

which I think it isn't actually an American military facility.

And it became illegal for these people to go home or step foot on their island, right?

And many of them live in Mauritius now.

Many of them also live in the UK.

And there's quite a big community in Crawley, which is too far from London actually which is where Jimmy lives and Jimmy Farah met a couple of these guys I think in

and around non-league football and he took the job as the manager of this of this new team so

this community living in Crawley who I guess are the yeah the the the of this of this new team. So this community living in Crawley,

who I guess are the,

yeah, the show goes in Diaspora.

They started a football team.

And they are playing in the Kniefa World Cup this year in

in May and June.

So I had Jimmy come in.

I'm really, really grateful for him to doing,

for him for doing so. I, to him for doing so.

I thought it's a really interesting story.

He's such a lovely guy and it was really interesting to talk to him.

So I talked to Jimmy a little bit more about the situation.

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