Confusion is not a word any organisation wants associated with it, but that label has attached itself to the Kernow Football Alliance. Annoyingly for all involved in Cornwall (to give the county its English name), it’s no fault of their own.
The Kernow FA came into being in 2016 as the brainchild of Andrew Bragg, known as the Godfather of Cornish football, and Jason Heaton, a Pontefract-born Leeds fan who’d long decided that Duchy life was for him. Bragg’s son Josh was playing in Sweden’s third tier with a team-mate who represented Sapmi – native Laplanders whose territory covers parts of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
Josh learned about Sapmi’s membership to the Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA), a body set up to represent teams based on
