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Highland League outfit Nairn County's surprising Antarctic connection


By Philip Murray

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Euan Logan (right) and Kyle Torrie with the shirt in Antarctica. Picture: Nairn County FC.
Euan Logan (right) and Kyle Torrie with the shirt in Antarctica. Picture: Nairn County FC.

IS this the most well-travelled Nairn County FC shirt in history?

Nairn County are used to away games, but one of their shirts made a truly epic journey recently – the bottom of the world.

For Reserves team players Euan Logan and Kyle Torrie took one of the side's tops to Antarctica

The pair are currently working at the Rothera Research Station on the frigid ice-bound continent.

And they made sure to take one the of club's shirts with them when they visited the land of ice, mountains and penguins.

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Taking to social media tonight, a Nairn County spokesman asked: "Is this the most remote location a Nairn County shirt has been spotted?"

Unless one is heading to orbit any time soon, we'd say the answer to that's probably a very big 'Yes'!


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