“During the 2018 World Cup in Russia, it emerged that a seven-page document had been supplied to stadium security staff, detailing dozens of flags that tournament organisers had banned from being displayed. These included the flags of jihadist terrorist groups al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab, of pre-revolutionary Iran, and separatist emblems for Somaliland and Catalonia. Sandwiched between the flag of the Luhansk People’s Republic and the Catalan Estelada was flag No 29, a flag actively prohibited from being displayed at the biggest sporting event on the planet. The flag of Sealand. …”
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“Wayne Jones has no trouble picking his most surreal moment since Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought Wrexham. … The pub Wayne has run these past 15 years is so interwoven with the football club that the players used to change there before games in the 19th century. But, since featuring heavily in series one of the show charting the Hollywood owners’ first full season at the helm, The Turf is now firmly on the tourist trail for overseas supporters. …”
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