The day our Les shot down the ‘Bluebirds’

Saturday 10th May 2008, 9:29AM BST.

Les Perriam poses in his beloved Muratti cap. (Picture by Daniel Guerin, 0575374)

IT’S a day Graham Skuse wants to forget, while Les Perriam will treasure it as long as he lives. The date was Monday 14 May 1951, the venue the Track, the scoreline: Guernsey 2, Cardiff City 0.

While the GFA’s head of referees was still in short pants back in Cardiff, Perriam, now 84, was scoring either side of half-time to defeat the city’s footballers. Perriam’s goals are historic in that they paved the way for the first and only time the island side has beaten a fully professional league club.

Most of the team that historic day have passed on, but Perriam, the former Northerner winger, remembers the occasion vividly and how Alan Hunter, his inside forward, set him up for one of the goals.