Wilmington University striker Lorne Bickley has gotten his fair share of strange looks over the past three years when he’s told someone he’s from Jersey in a British accent.
“I get that a lot; I say Jersey then they go ‘you’re joking’ and I’m like no, no the original Jersey,” Bickley said in a recent interview for The Path Soccer Podcast.
One of the Channel Islands, Jersey is located between England and France. There are about 100,000 people who call the island home and some 33,500 in Bickley’s home parish of Saint Helier.
“In Jersey because it’s so small you play against the same people week in and week out,” he said.