F Troopers – early kings of the rebels
Saturday 3rd May 2008, 9:30AM BST.
REBEL league football in Guernsey is nothing new, so if it returns in September, those running it could do worse than investigate why the original rose and fell in just a few years.
It was a question put this week to Monty Waterman (pictured), who four decades ago ran one of the most successful social league teams the island has seen, F Troop, named after the mildly funny American comedy series of the period and focused on the antics of a cavalry brigade.
On screen, Ken Perry was the main man as Captain Wilton Parmenter. In Guernsey, it was Monty who ran the troop from its social haunt at the Red Lion and very effectively too.
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