Guernsey goalscorer Glyn Dyer nearly gets a mouth full of boot on Saturday at the Track. (Picture by Phil Hall, 0649559)

Guernsey Under-21s 1, Naval Air Command 0
ANYTHING other than a home win at the Track on Saturday would have been a travesty.

But it was not until the last minute of normal time that Glyn Dyer popped up with the winner and gave Martyn de Garis’ side a fully deserved win and morale boost ahead of the age-group Muratti clash against Jersey and at the same time extending the visitors’ poor recent record in the 35th annual encounter.

The diminutive North winger took leave of his left flank to move into the centre and, having nipped in to get to the ball ahead of keeper Roy Emerson on the edge of the area, he forced it over the line with his weaker right foot despite a desperate lunge by a defender to clear on the line.

Guernsey should have had the match wrapped up well before the break, but Emerson was in top form and it seemed the game would go to penalties until Dyer’s late intervention.

The home coach was chuffed to bits with both the result and the performance and he had every reason to be.