Our finest victory
Monday 3rd May 2010, 2:30PM BST.
Guernsey skipper Sam Cochrane holds aloft the Carlsberg FA National League System Cup and Guernsey football’s biggest party is about to start. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0961475)
GUERNSEY’S FA National League System Cup victory was yesterday hailed as the greatest achievement in the history of local football.
Saturday’s 5-2 romp at a Track packed with ‘green and white barmy army’ fans, has left Guernsey football still on a massive high today.
The island’s top players will now wear the three lions of England kit to represent the nation in the Uefa Regions Cup in September, where they will face the amateur representative teams of Croatia, Wales and Turkey.
However, Guernsey’s rugby team did not enjoy the same level of success in the Siam Cup, losing 36-nil to Jersey at Foote’s Lane.
Bailiff Sir Geoffrey Rowland commended the rugby team for its effort and described the football performance as ‘superb’.
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Fantastic! The beautiful game!! Congratulations to all concerned.
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Truely one of the finest Guernsey performances i have seen in a very long time.
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really don’t think it was a great game of football but finals rarely are – but it was a fantastic result and the Green & Whites fully deserved it for their gusty preformances in the earlier rounds against opposition which I thought were actually better than the eventual finalists
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dickthedonk
I cant agree with you, for me it was great game of footy!
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dickthedonk – what game were you watching? were you watching the rugby in the bar?! I thought Guernsey played exceptionally and you cant complain at 7 goals surely? :-)
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