IT IS fair to say from recent Comment and opinion pieces that some senior figures on this newspaper would do away with Culture and Leisure with a snap of their fingers and before a groundsman can pick up the phone to text: 'Sorry lads... too wet.'
FOR an organisation so professional, and one that this column has consistently held up as a paragon in offshore island sporting development, I am amazed at the dog's breakfast Jersey RFC have made of discussing the future of the Siam Cup.
WHO'D be a footballer these very wet, grey and lifeless days without the opportunity to float a pass, fire a shot goalwards, crunch a tackle or even get a training session in.
THE island's League Management Committee will carry on in exactly the same fashion as before, says its newly-elected chairman Brian Horsepool.
THERE could scarcely be two more polar opposites in Channel Islands football than Guernsey FC and Alderney.
FOR the second season running, football fans have hit upon an intriguing, closely contested Priaulx League championship.
IF EVER there was a time to shut the main administrative players in Guernsey football in one room and tell them they aren't coming out again until they have concocted a satisfactory blueprint for the island game, it is now.
LIKE many things in sport, it just does not add up. How can a football club be so good at attracting and developing young footballers up to the age of 16, and at the same time be so consistently and miserably average at first-team level?
KEVIN GRAHAM flies in the week after next to take his first Muratti training squad and the news is that despite the obvious preponderance of GFC players, he will run separate training sessions in the days ahead of the Alderney game a fortnight today.
YOU can count on one hand the number of shrewder men in island football than Phil Corbet.
SO, in the end the rain won the day.
NO DOUBTING the man of the week.
THE golden horizon is in sight for Guernsey FC, which has taken a huge step closer to entering a UK league next season.
THESE are potentially momentous times for football.
