Joel Rookwood interviews UCLan SU President and Sport Business Management graduate Zuleikha Chikh about Preston’s refugee and asylum seeker football project. Around 40 participants take part each week in free football coaching led by the Sir Tom Finney FC, a non-profit community football club in Preston – coached by UCLan students. This interview explores the lived realities of refugees and asylum seekers, the meaning of football in this context and the approach and impact of the project.