YOUR eyes do not deceive you. Yorkshire are back on the international stage this Sunday as they take on Chagos Islands Football Association-Selection at Hemsworth Miners Welfare Football Club's Yorkshire NuBuilds Stadium.

Both sides are part of CONIFA, a football association which recognises international sides that are not affiliated to FIFA.

Unfortunately this means that Yorkshire won't have the chance to appear at the World Cup or European Championships any time soon, but they will be able to take on far-flung sides such as Zanzibar, Quebec and Kiribati.

This weekend's exotic opponents are the Chagos Islands. It is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, situated some 500 km due south of the Maldives.

Officially part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, they were home to the Chagossians for more than a century and a half.

The UK evicted them in the early 1970s and allowed the USA to build a military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands.

Today the Chagossians live in diaspora mainly in the Seychelles and the UK.