Chelsea FC Supporters’ Club

English football is big in Africa. One reason as photographer Eric Lafforque explains–in the text accompanying his image on Flickr of a Hamar young man in rural Ethiopia repping for his club–is the role of free broadcasts of the matches on national TV:  ”…  [H]e can watch Chelsea matches, like many Ethiopians who are crazy about English football because national Ethiopian TV broadcasts all the matches … While I was in deep south Ethiopia, the only news I could ask [for] were “Did Arsenal won?”, and I always [got] the answer: the score, the name of the scorers etc …”

via Naijablog

Sean Jacobs

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Comments

  1. rhys says:

    your rubish says my friend livepool suporter.

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