THE Sunday Soccer League will decide tonight if they are splitting from the Guernsey Football Association. The social league are holding their AGM at 7.30 at the RAFA Club.

It promises to be an explosive affair as the member clubs will decide if the league will stay with the GFA or go out on their own.

‘My own personal view is that I can see them pulling away,’ said SSL secretary Mark Fallaize (pictured). ‘I can see the benefits of being affiliated and I can see the benefits of not being affiliated. It’s swings and roundabouts.’

If the league decides to de-affiliate it would be a massive blow to the GFA following the Business League’s decision a couple of weeks ago to go their own way.

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

However, in a bid to keep the social leagues on board, 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. But it proved too little too late for the Business League and it could be the case for the SSL as well.