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Has GFA absolved itself of running its leagues?

I COULD choose many examples of how society these days seems to be based on dumbing down the people and encouraging them to accept a 'look after the strong and it will help us all' ethos (aka 'Big Society') without question, while the reality is that small communities' supposed protectors are becoming their executioners. I'll continue with local football though because barely had the ink dried on my letter 'Development of Guernsey FC has wrecked domestic football' which you published, albeit in slightly edited fashion, on 10 January, you ran a story which revealed that St Martin's had requested the postponement of a Priaulx League game because of a shortage of players, chiefly on the grounds of 'Christmas social commitments'.

News|Jan 30, 2017
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De-affiliation from GFA would help clubs survive

WHAT the League Management Committee (LMC) of Guernsey football have been talking about doing in respect of breaking away from the Guernsey Football Association is something I have mentioned a number of times. Bels, Rangers, Rec, North, Sylvans, Rovers and Saints have only been doing what the social leagues did for years before de-affiliating from the governing body. They are actually paying to run things themselves.

News|Apr 25, 2016
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