Two Londoners have flown 8,000 miles to the tiny pacific island of Pohnpei to (attempt to) coach their national football team. Pohnpei’s last international match took place five years ago, and ended as a 16-0 loss to Guam. So they’re not in great form. Yeovil have kindly donated last seasons kit for them to play in, and, brilliantly, they have adopted and adapted Portsmouth’s chant – ‘Play up Pohnpei’.
Pohnpei has a population of just 36,000, and an annual rainfall ten times that of Manchester – so film student Matthew Conrad and football journalist Paul Watson have a tough task on their hands. But, gentlemen, we applaud you for trying.
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