‘Football is a passion for us,’ says José Antonio Costa, the
president of the Porto Fan Club which meets in Stockwell.
‘Many people come for friendship – you know, in a foreign
country, you feel more comfortable with your own people.’
Eric Santos, the owner of Santos’s café near the club, says,
‘People come for my wife’s bacalhau– salted cod, made with
potatoes and onions. Delicious!’ There is quite a big
Portuguese-speaking community here, from Portugal, Brazil
and Madeira, but they do not always stick together. ‘Everyone
looks after their own interests.’ The Portuguese and the
Madeirans, in particular, are very separate groups in London,
because Madeira wants independence from Portugal.
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