Classy defender: John Booth (left) moved from the St Martin’s first team into the Muratti side of 1967. In this 1966 image the Saints centre half tracks Bels’ Ricky Mills at Blanche Pierre Lane. (0681552)

HAVE you noticed lately our Muratti teams are becoming more ‘Guernseyfied’ by the year?

Now that is not such a bad thing if you are winning all the time, but we aren’t of course.

In the last decade we have won just two of 10 Muratti Vase finals and the red-and-whites’ overall series lead is becoming ever wider and a tad worrying.

We need some help and, for some reason, while the top echelons of island sport is regularly topped up by exciting newcomers, it has sadly stopped happening in football.

A quick flick through the Muratti start lists proves football is not being pepped up by top UK talent in the way it regularly was in the 60s and 70s.

This decade has seen three genuinely talented newcomers in Trim Morgan, Neil Clegg and Darragh Duffy, but only Clegg remains.