THE Business House League has decided to split from the Guernsey Football Association. At their AGM on Thursday evening, the social league’s clubs unanimously voted to go their own way from next season.

They will be called the IAG Saturday Football League. The decision deals a massive blow to the GFA. ‘It’s sad that there is a split, but we’re looking forward to the season [ahead],’ said the league’s president, Rod Hamon (pictured).

The move comes in light of the GFA’s controversial five-year plan. The main stumbling block for the Business League and their fellow social league, the Sunday Soccer League, was the ‘one man, one club’ ruling. Under the new rules, a player at a GFA club can only play for that club and therefore not be able to play for a club in the social leagues.

However, in a bid to keep the Business and Sunday Leagues affiliated to the GFA, the Association’s new chairman, Mark Le Tissier, offered a compromise to allow five players from every social league side to also be able to play for a social club in the other weekend league.

Hamon says that this was discussed at the AGM but the clubs turned down the proposal as they said they would have more than five players in a team that would want to play elsewhere.