URI-KA Uri Geller to set up football team on Scots island as spoonbender appeals for players to sign up

BARMY Uri Geller is setting up a football team on his Scots island after turning it into a micro-nation.

The Israeli spoonbender bought the Island of Lamb, on the Firth of Forth, ten years ago and people can now become citizens.

Now he’s announced that for just one dollar anyone can claim Lamb nationality and become eligible for its “national” side.

Geller, 75, said: “It’s as big as a football pitch. We’ll put up the goalposts and play with my logo.

“We have a flag, we have a constitution and we have an anthem. And now I’m going to have a football team.”

The music for the anthem – entitled My Island – was written by the great grandad of one of Uri’s pals.

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