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Sunday 22 February 2015

An interesting weekend started with news that there are Guernsey connections to a big wad of dosh residing behind numerous smoke screens in HSBC's Swiss private bank. God's representative in St Sampson's was quick to point out the Guernsey finance industry's is fully compliant with all the regulation under the sun - but no word as yet from his mate Gav.

Gav's saying nothing for the time being and any suggestion that that's because he was once a partner at KPMG, who just happened to be HSBC's auditors during this period of frenzied tax avoidance/evasion/planning (take your pick), not to mention money laundering in Central America, is just plain wickedness.

As far as we're concerned the above mentioned have nothing but you're best interests in mind, so vote for them next year. Don't bother with the idiot(s) that think disgorging cruise ship passengers on the Albert Pier though.....

The under 21 Muratti meant that GFC went into the match against Carshalton Athletice with enforced absences in what is a key area for us, mainly the defensive side of things. With the visitors having also seen an upturn in their fortunes of late nobody expected a walk in the park, and it wasn't (fromwhat I can gather from various sources on t'internet at any rate).

Two very well taken goals by Ross Allen and Jamie Dodd and some excellent saves by the Carshalton 'keeper were the highlights of the match. Speaking of which, one of my bugbears is the use of the term 'missed a penalty'. According to some sources Ross Allen missed a penalty against Carshalton, which would be a surprise to anyone seeing footage of the superb save by the Carshalton 'keeper. Highlights are worth a look at www.guernseyfc.com , Carshalton FC's match report can be found here.

Only 5 matches beat the weather in the Isthmian South on Saturday. This was due to overnight snow in places and heavy precipitation generally. The other results were:-

Hastings 2 Whyteleafe 2 ; Herne Bay 2 Folkestone Invicta 2 ; Horsham 3 Three Bridges 4 ; Worthing 1 Walton & Hersham & Hersham 1.

Which leaves us in 9th place, 8 points adrift of the final play off place with a game in hand.

If you don't know already the U21s bet the Crapauds 2-1 after being a goal down after 5 minutes or so, which was bloomin' marvellous.

Finally, wasn't it good to a see a gate of 800+ for the first time in 2015?

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