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ON FIRE: Karpatalya fans celebrate winning the Conifa World Cup

The final of CONIFA’s World Football Cup may have been something of a damp squib, settled in the unsatisfactory manner of a penalty shoot-out, but the occasion underlined the very warm feeling the tour nament created among the many people who watched the games in and around London. And Non- League clubs did themselves proud in what was their muchneeded close season period.
There were glitches, notably the clumsy exit of the Isle of Man’s team from the competition, a protest o...