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BBC News
19-05-2025
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Allen unsure on Muratti future after Guernsey win
Guernsey captain Ross Allen says he has yet to decide if he will play in a Muratti Vase 38-year-old scored two goals in the 3-1 win over Jersey to end their rival's eight-year grip on the annual title. Veteran striker Allen won the Player of the Match award for a record fourth time - 14 years after first winning the Ossie Eloury Trophy - as he once again became the thorn in Jersey's side."If that is the last one it is a pretty special one," Allen, who captained Guernsey for the first time, told BBC Radio Guernsey."I'll just enjoy the moment and see how the body's feeling."I'm definitely going to play next season for Guensey FC. Whether I carry on from a Muratti point of view it's going to be how the body feels and who's pushing for a place in the squad."Sometimes you've got to step away to allow the next guy to come through."There will be a day very soon where that happens, so I'm not saying either way, but I just want to enjoy the day with such an amazing group of lads and friends."Having scored 311 goals in 356 games for Guernsey FC, Allen has been a stalwart of island football for the best part of two decades. He helped Guernsey qualify to represent England at the Uefa Regions' Cup in 2010 and helped the Sarnians to a 2015 Island Games gold medal. He now manages the Guernsey FA academy and says he is looking forward to seeing the young players he is helping to develop."I'm just so excited about the next crop coming through, and for them to get this feeling of winning, early on, and trying to get that regularly with Guernsey FC as well, it's going to be massive going forward."I'm really excited about what the future brings, even if that's not with me out there playing."
BBC News
17-05-2025
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Guernsey impress to beat Jersey and win Muratti Vase
Ross Allen scored twice as Guernsey beat 10-man Jersey 3-1 to win the Muratti Vase for the first time in eight victory in the first men's inter-island game at Victoria Park was consolation for Guernsey's players, many of whom were part of the Guernsey FC side relegated from the Isthmian League last win, in front of 3,090 fans, was Guernsey's first in the annual fixture since 2017 when veteran forward Allen was on the scoresheet as his side beat Jersey 2-1 at Footes Lane. It completed a clean sweep of wins after Guernsey's women came from a goal down to beat Jersey 2-1 earlier in the day - the first time the island have won both matches in the same year since 2001. New Jersey boss Jack Cannon was missing a number of Jersey Bulls' star players - the likes of Lorne Bickley, James Queree, Euan van der Vliet and Miguel Carvalho were all despite that they started strongly as Luke Campbell and Jonny le Quesne went close early in the first three minutes, but it was the hosts who blew their opponents away with two goals in as many 38-year-old Allen - the scourge of Jersey for so many years - lobbed Piers Roche in the eighth minute after breaking minutes later Charlton Gauvain doubled the advantage as he arrowed in from the edge of the box for one of the finest starts in Muratti almost made it 3-0 two minutes later, but his effort at the far post from Jacques Cauvain's cross was deflected into the side Francis Lekimamati had a header saved two minutes before Hinds made it 2-1 - the Jersey Bulls striker headed into the top corner from Kieran Lester's 26th-minute cross from the just as Jersey looked as though they might get back into it Guernsey FC's record goalscorer Allen struck again as he caught Roche off his line from the edge of the box having picked up a cross-field ball from Brandon sides had good efforts to score in a frantic end to the first period - Lester, Lekimamati and Adam Trotter going close for the visitors while Sam Murray and Brandon Wallace had decent efforts for the Greens. Allen had two good chances to increase the lead in the opening minutes of the second half as Guernsey tried to make the game safe. Jersey Bulls top scorer Joe Kilshaw forced an excellent save from Josh Addison after an hour while Gauvain had a strike beaten away by Roche six minutes later. Guernsey substitute Callum le Lacheur went close with 15 minutes to go and a minute later was fouled by Jersey skipper Luke Campbell, earning the veteran centre-back his second yellow card and an early exit. The sending off ended any hopes Jersey had of getting back into the game - Matt Loaring grazed the Jersey bar in the dying moments of stoppage time as their opponent's impressive eight-year unbeaten record came to an end.
BBC News
17-05-2025
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Guernsey women beat Jersey to retain Muratti Vase
Two quickfire goals from Calleigh Hedley saw Guernsey's women come from behind to beat Jersey 2-1 and retain the Muratti Vase for the first time in 24 win added to Guernsey FC's title in this season's Jersey women's league as the Sarnians' resurgence in the fixture fixture between the sides only returned in 2022 after Guernsey were unable to field a side between 2018 and victory in the first senior inter-island game at Guernsey's new Victoria Park ground meant the hosts retained the title for the first time since 2001 - when they won for the fifth successive time. Having started the game brighter Guernsey went behind midway through the first half as Sam Silva got on the end of Tiff Sundby's cross as the hosts appealed for a foul on goalkeeper Emma after Chloe Ingrouille drew a fine save from Jersey's Ana Malta as Guernsey searched for an could have been 2-0 down after 29 minutes, but Queripel kept her side in it as she saved Aine Ruth's penalty after the Guernsey goalkeeper had brought down the Jersey upped the pressure after the break, forcing Malta into a fine 52nd-minute Hedley levelled two minutes later as she beat two players to break through on goal before calmly finding the bottom corner. Three minutes later the Guernsey striker scored again as she rounded Malta and slotted into the empty lost Queripel to injury with 15 minutes left and two minutes later lost her replacement Kayleigh Marquis after she was hurt as Jersey Holly Muirhead and Emily le Page scrambled home what they thought was an equaliser, but the referee ruled it out for handball in the build meant debutant midfielder Jess Frampton went in goal as the hosts almost made it 3-1 during 11 minutes of stoppage time as Candice Bougourd hit the crossbar with a free kick in the 95th minute before Donna Gallienne forced a save from Malta soon after.
BBC News
15-05-2025
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New league for Guernsey FC rules out Jersey derby
There will be no Channel Island derby next season after Guernsey FC were relegated to the Southern Combination Premier Green Lions, who finished fourth-from-bottom of Isthmian League South Central, have been kept apart from neighbours Jersey the Bulls fail to win promotion from their league's play-offs they will remain in the Combined Counties Premier that happens the two sides would only be able to meet if they were drawn together in the FA started their time in the English football non-league system in 2011 in the Combined Counties League - winning successive promotions to move up to the eighth-tier Isthmian League in Southern Combination neighbours the Combined Counties League and covers East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey and parts of south west London.
BBC News
28-04-2025
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Guernsey FC star Allen targets another season
Guernsey FC's record goalscorer Ross Allen says he will return to the club next 38-year-old has scored 311 goals in 356 games and has been part of the Green Lions side since they were founded in 2011. Allen, who played in the Fifa Club World Cup for New Zealand side Team Wellington in 2018, is widely regarded as the best player ever to wear the Guernsey side's colours. He says the lure of Guernsey's new home at Victoria Park will keep him playing, even after the Green Lions suffered their first-ever relegation on Saturday. "I think for me the new stadium is a real draw and I would like to get at least one season there, especially now to help the help the group through a different league," he told BBC Radio Guernsey."It's just really exciting, I think with my coach's hat on as well with all the work we're doing behind the scenes with the Guernsey FA, we had Jersey Bulls youth teams over at Victoria Park to play some of our academy teams and that really excites me."It just shows that we've got some good kids coming through and I want to help some of them get to the stage where they're phasing straight into Guernsey FC and it's a nice transition for them to come into senior football."If I can still lace up boots and get the odd game here and there then that's really important for me while I can still do it and the body still allows me to do it." Allen scored 16 goals in 31 appearances this season, including a run of scoring in eight consecutive appearances from the start of February through to April. It was his best goalscoring season since he claimed 19 goals in the 2021-22 campaign - although some way off Allen's pomp in Guernsey's first season in the eighth tier back in 2013-14 when he found the net an incredible 54 says relegation out of the Isthmian League after 12 seasons is a chance to reflect, but also a chance to build for the future."Ultimately we are in a football pyramid. Getting relegated doesn't mean you stop existing as a club, it's just another chapter, it's just a time to reset," he added."We are a very unique club. If this was a club in the UK probably half or all of the players would leave, the coach would leave, it would be a total reshuffle."We've got that really unique situation where nothing really changes."We've got the same personnel and we could just roll into the next one and maybe blood a few younger players, get a few more players out there that maybe in certain games we just didn't quite give the minutes to this season because we needed a bit more experience out there."
