Toppa Top 10: Ten Ways To Celebrate Bob Marley’s Birthday

5. Play a game of five-a-side football Bob Marley loved playing music, but he loved playing football even more. Wherever the singer traveled, he managed to fit in some soccer, but his favorite place to play was at “the stadium,” a 40-yard asphalt rectangle near Cane River Falls in St. Thomas, where he and friends played five-a-side, with breeze-blocks for goalposts. “Football is a whole universe to itself,” Marley once said. “Football is freedom.” If you’re current coordinates bar you from enjoying a game yourself, spend some time perusing the numerous photographs of Marley on the pitch that have made it online.