THERE is growing suggestion that at least one senior Muratti squad member has played unaffiliated five-a-side league football this season.

But even if he did and is shopped as a result of the ‘Hooper Affair’ it won’t lose us the Muratti – that’s of course assuming Tony Vance’s men win the final at the Track next month.

Alec Le Noury, who as president of the Guernsey Football Association for 20 years took his turn as inter-insular committee chairman on many occasions, said such rows as the Hooper one are internal affairs and nothing to do with Jersey.

Hooper’s uncle, the Vale Rec stalwart Pete Mahy, has angrily threatened to go to the Jersey Football Association with names of Guernsey players who have played illegally in the FRM Five-a-side League this season.

‘If we had won the Junior Muratti, I would have been in touch with the Jersey Football Association and if we win the Muratti [I’ll do the same]. Because there are those in the senior island who have been playing five-a-side,’ Mahy has said.

But Le Noury (pictured) is not impressed by this perceived threat to a Guernsey win and is of the view that it is groundless and inapplicable.