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THERE are so many good, forward-thinking people in football that my heart goes out to them when indirectly they are punished by the foolhardiness of others.
THERE are so many good, forward-thinking people in football that my heart goes out to them when indirectly they are punished by the foolhardiness of others.
ARE we witnessing one last and glorious hurrah for Sylvans as a Priaulx League force?
Rovers 0, Vale Rec 6 ON MISERABLE afternoons such as this, you wonder just how Rovers are not bottom of the Cable & Wireless Priaulx League.
Wiltshire 0, Guernsey 1 'WE ARE going in the right direction,' was Steve Ogier's apt assessment of this promising Guernsey display that produced a fine result in Melksham.
A FRUSTRATED Steve Ogier was yesterday forced into a last minute change in his squad to face Wiltshire after Nathan Pattimore confirmed that he has broken his finger.
Vale Rec 4, St Martin's 2 FORGET the scoreline because the two-goal margin of victory did Vale Rec no justice.
ALEX HUNTER'S dream of following his father and grandfather into the Muratti team has come a step closer with his inclusion in the Guernsey squad to play Wiltshire next weekend.
VALE REC are facing a striker crisis ahead of tomorrow's big clash with St Martin's and beyond.
CHRIS TARDIF is anxious for a return to the Oxford United first team to help his club halt a run of five straight defeats in Coca-Cola Football League Two.
North 4, Vale Rec 3 NORTH and Vale Rec served up a derby thriller at Northfield last night.
Guernsey 2, Dorset 2 GUERNSEY will not win group A of the South-West Counties League, but those of us who have criticised the worth of playing such games may have to think again.
BELS will meet North in the semi-finals of the Stranger Cup early next month, but Ray Queripel's team had to come from a goal behind to put out Rangers at the Track and a mile or so away at Northfield the chocolate-and-blues were briefly given a scare by Rovers.
Guernsey 2, Royal Naval AC 0 THERE have been times in recent years - most notably 2003 when they lost 0-8 - that the Naval Air Command team have been as aerially commanding as a dwarf.
WHEN Simon Johns, the Muratti left back, announced he was off travelling, some at Northerners might have panicked.
Vale Rec 2, North 5 NORTH sunk neighbours Vale Rec with an energetic and deserved 5-2 victory at the Corbet Field to move three points clear at the top of the Cable & Wireless Priaulx League table last night.