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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

The Fiver: Comoros and an Africa Cup of Nations upset for the ages

Comoros, The Fiver’s new favourite team.
Comoros, The Fiver’s new favourite team. Photograph: Daniel Beloumou Olomo/AFP/Getty Images

COMOROS FEEL THE NOIZE

Two weeks ago the Fiver had never heard of Comoros, which we’ve since learned is the fourth-smallest nation in Africa. And while our ignorance might seem kinda condescending, the world’s most daily football email would like to assure the 850,000 or so inhabitants of this four-island archipelago our ignorance is entirely down to a school geography syllabus that was more focused on the excruciating minutiae of what constitutes a truncated spur, than anything so useful as the names and whereabouts of all the countries in the world.

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