GIBRALTAR next November is the provisional date for an inaugural small nations tournament involving Guernsey and Jersey.

Regardless of Guernsey’s likely commitment to a UK league from next season, the Sarnians have indicated that they want to play in the half-week event which will feature certainly four sides and, possibly, as many as six.

County secretary Mike Kinder joined representatives from Jersey, the Isle of Man and Gibraltar at a meeting with FA official Mike Appleby at a Gatwick hotel last Friday. It was there that they drafted competition rules and regulations and a follow-up meeting in Gibraltar will be staged early in 2011 to finalise details.

Kinder (pictured) said he had gone to London to push for a joint bid to stage the inaugural tournament with Jersey.

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