‘It’s phenomenal’: how six Londoners are on verge of glory with Montserrat

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Six London players with roots on Montserrat have helped transform the Caribbean island’s football fortunes and put a Gold Cup within reach

“You’d literally be playing out here and getting scraped up off the floor.” Bradley Woods-Garness is standing a few yards from one of the north London pitches that, when he was a youngster, tested mettle as much as skill. The five-a-side surface at Elthorne Park is now made of artificial turf, a far cry from the concrete that would shudder the bones of the Corinthian-Casuals forward and those who joined him. “There’d be scars all over your knees,” he says. “But we loved it.

 

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