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The League competition involves the
Woolpack Wanderers and the Garrison Gunners playing each other between fourteen and twenty times, often on a Sunday. Technically, the two teams are part of a single club, St Mary's Football Club. There also exist two Cups: The Wholesalers Cup and the Foredeck Cup,
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on the Isles so when youngsters turn 16, they go to the mainland. In addition, house prices are expensive, so they tend not to return until much older. Between 2011 and 2021, population on the Isles of Scilly fell by 6.8%. As a result, the number of players in the league had been dwindling. In 2008
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In 2012, the
Lyonesse Cup was founded. It started as a 6 teams cup, before changing to an annual game with
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Game in progress between the two teams—the
Garrison Gunners in yellow, and the Woolpack Wanderers in red.
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