The small British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar is never rarely short of column inches, but football on The Rock has yet to be explored to any great lengths, until now…
The to-ing and fro-ing between Britain and Spain over who has the right to govern this tiny area at the very southern edge of the Iberian Peninsula has recently caught the public’s attention once again. The debate over Gibraltar, which has been under British rule since the early 1700s, is seemingly endless. However with that, quite naturally, comes a strong footballing tradition.
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