Garry Dodd shows his emotion during the Green Trophy victory. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0577785)

A RECORD hammering for the Reds, red cards, revolting Poles and a Green Trophy victory to cap it all…

The Siam might be the new Muratti, but with the rugby and football out of the way, the Guernsey Table Tennis Association headquarters at Hougue du Pommier was the place to be on Saturday.  For a seventh straight year Guernsey won the Horace Mallett Memorial Trophy for the inter-insular team aggregate, but this time there was barely a slice of red on the colourful electronic scoreboard as the home team rampaged to an 88 games to 22 victory.

The last six came courtesy of the Guernsey Green team who regained the trophy with a thrilling 6-4 win to the sound of banging air drums and beery cheers.  It was great stuff, unless you were from Jersey, who had already been soundly dominated in the previous evening’s CI championship finals.