GFA leader placed in unenviable position
POOR Mark Le Tissier.
POOR Mark Le Tissier.
FOUR local sides are in inter-insular battles at the weekend with the hope of creating all-Guernsey finals in both the CI Champions League and the Collins Cup.
Vale Rec 2, First Tower 1 ONCE proud First Tower, champions of the Channel Islands on 12 occasions, left the Corbet Field beaten and disgraced on Saturday.
MATT LE BER stole the show and had the perfect weekend when Bowls Guernsey held its annual finals this year at the Guernsey Bowling Club's Beau Sejour green.
The new captain of Guernsey champions Bels, Sam Cochrane, holds the Priaulx Cup, which the six other top flight clubs are aiming to get their hands on by the end of the season. They are represented by (from left to right) Matt Warren (St Martin's), Aaron Ferbrache (Sylvans), Luis de Jesus (Rovers), Darren Martin (North), Mark Ramsden (Vale Rec) and Dave Parrott (Rangers). (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0631175) GUERNSEY football enters a new era this afternoon.
MATT LE BER is hoping it will be a case of third time lucky when he takes on fellow Vale Rec man Nigel Collins in next month's island singles championship final.
Bels 3, Rangers 1 Bels U-21s 1, Vale Rec 0
DEFENDING champions Falcons remain on course to retain their Sandeman Men's Fours title.
DAENA BODIE will be joining the Footballcv academy next month.
GFA: Former Muratti man becomes chairman
FOOTBALL will undergo its biggest change in its 115-year history as the Guernsey Football Association's five-year plan was ratified at its annual meeting last night.
THE Queen had just one 'annus horribilis'.
VALE REC chief Paul Burnard yesterday explained his club's reasons for rejecting the compromise offer made by the GFA board this week.
A COMPROMISE deal struck by the GFA board and the senior clubs is already in danger of collapse and with it the immediate future of the Guernsey game, funding and all.
Vale Rec 0, Trinity 1 A SINGLE first-half goal was enough to take the John Leatt Trophy to Jersey, but it did not underline Trinity's dominance over Guernsey's Youth Two champions Vale Rec.