Yorkshire Yorkshire football team set for debut in league of stateless peoples Players who trained together for first time last weekend will take on Isle of Man in Pontefract Leeds United fans at a Championship match against Barnsley at Oakwell. Photograph: Mark Cosgrove/Action Plus/Getty ImagesYorkshire’s first “international” football team will play its debut match on Sunday after being welcomed into a world league for repressed minorities, independent nations and stateless peoples. The fledgling team, who trained together for the first time last weekend, will take on the Isle of Man in front of a crowd of hundreds in Pontefract. The Yorkshire International Football Association, nicknamed the Vikings, has not officially revealed its “national” anthem, but it is expected that players will run out to the rousing unofficial Yorkshire song On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘at. “Everything that reaches the outside world about Yorkshire goes through this London-centric lens.

Source: The Guardian January 26, 2018 13:41 UTC