GFA board: ‘There is no going back’

Tuesday 8th April 2008, 2:30PM BST.

Vale Rec third-team players swig from the Railway Cup which, after being contested for 95 years, was won for possibly the very last time last evening. (Picture by Daniel Guerin, 0561049)

BACK us or sack us.

The Guernsey Football Association board yesterday delivered the biggest ultimatum in their 115-year history by telling the clubs that to reject their five-year plan would lead to the entire nine-man board resigning.

And in a surprise twist to the story, GFA board chairman Dave Nussbaumer plans to stay at the helm for another year. ‘We have the unanimous belief that local football has to change,’ said Nussbaumer yesterday.

‘We have been working together as a board for three years and we will see this through together, or go together.’