Island Games Football Results etc.

[Réiteoir]

Group Table:

Team	               Points
Shetland Islands 	6
Isle of Man 	        4
Saaremaa 	        4
Falkland Islands        3
Åland 	                0

Team	          Points
Guernsey 	    6
Greenland           5
Ynys Môn 	    4
Western Islands     1
Orkney 	            0

[pineapple stu]

Where's this taking place? Unsurprisingly, the venue names mean nothing to me!

[dcfcsteve]

Where's this taking place? Unsurprisingly, the venue names mean nothing to me!

Shetlands

[Gerrit]

If I'm not mistaken, the local league is dominated by the team from the local bank's employees. Kinda TNS-esque... I will search around for a website on Shetland football with pictures of the grounds, I have come across one about a year ago, maybe I have the URL written down somewhere...

[Thunderblaster]

Throw Achill Island into the equation!!

[Gerrit]

we want the Skellig Islands !!

[CollegeTillIDie]

The Blaskets could feature 11 trained goats or sheep... I'll get my coat

[Gerrit]

Bull Island has 5 houses on it... If some of these few people have children, they may have just enough people to form a team

Maybe if third-generation people can play because of their roots, currently uninhabited (previously evacuated) St-Kilda could form a team as well...



AFAIK Nova Zembla has 1 or 2 very tiny hunting settlements, so has Wrangell Island, and the South Georgia/South Sandwich Islands have the permanently populated weather station Grytvyken... More potential participants !

[Gerrit]

BTW, wasn't there an off-coast oil rink in the North Sea on which some Scottish dude settled down to form an own state ? I think it was called Atomia or something... He's still the only inhabitant AFAIK

[Réiteoir]

That'd be Sealand

[Sheridan]

That'd be Sealand

Sounds like Sealand, alright. A fascinating anomaly. It's actually a platform constructed upon a sunken barge in the North Sea, declared a sovereign state by its one-time sole resident ("His Royal Highness" Paddy Roy Bates.) Bates no longer lives on Sealand, which is now adminstered by his son (who once unilaterally declared war on the United Kingdom by firing on a nearby British vessel. A British court's subsequent refusal to prosecute Master Bates (!) on the grounds that it did not fall within its jurisdiction forms the basis of Sealand's claims for sovereignty.) The island also suffered a an attempted coup by a group of mainly Dutch nationals, resulting in an all-out war (including a helicopter attack) which necessitated the intervention of the German government to secure the release of one "P.O.W."

[anto eile]

Sounds like Sealand, alright. A fascinating anomaly. It's actually a platform constructed upon a sunken barge in the North Sea, declared a sovereign state by its one-time sole resident ("His Royal Highness" Paddy Roy Bates.) Bates no longer lives on Sealand, which is now adminstered by his son (who once unilaterally declared war on the United Kingdom by firing on a nearby British vessel. A British court's subsequent refusal to prosecute Master Bates (!) on the grounds that it did not fall within its jurisdiction forms the basis of Sealand's claims for sovereignty.) The island also suffered a an attempted coup by a group of mainly Dutch nationals, resulting in an all-out war (including a helicopter attack) which necessitated the intervention of the German government to secure the release of one "P.O.W."