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🏆 THE 2022 BETWAY CI SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR 🙌
@ManUtdWomen
star — and
@Lionesses
cap —
@MayaLeTissier
! 💚
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🇬🇬 BRONZE 🥉 for Alastair Chalmers in the 400m hurdles at the
#CommonwealthGames22
🙌
A first ever athletics medal for Guernsey at the Commonwealth Games 👏
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⚽️
@AlexScott_7
’s family out in force at Ashton Gate 🇬🇬
A huge night for him and
@BristolCity
🏆
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⚽️ “Just a special, special evening”
Here’s what
@AlexScott_7
told us after sharing the Ashton Gate pitch with some of his
@ManCity
idols last night 🗣️
And Guernsey’s
@BristolCity
star did not look out of place at all 👏
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🇬🇬 Guernsey’s first Commonwealth Games medallist in 28 years 🙌
What an achievement for Lucy Beere 🥈
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⚽ Maya Le Tissier is 1 of 10 players (the only 1 from Britain) to have been named the best young footballers in the world in Goal's 2021 NXGN Awards 👏
Le Tissier named among world's top teenagers via
@OfficialBHAFC
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⚽ ALEX SCOTT is a PREMIER LEAGUE footballer!
The 19-year-old Guernseyman has just been revealed as Bournemouth's new signing having joined from Bristol City today ✍
Less than four years ago he was playing for Guernsey FC in the Isthmian League!
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⚽️ GUERNSEY WIN BACK THE JUNIOR MURATTI!! 🏆
Jacques Cauvin scored the decisive spot-kick as
@Guernsey_FA
U18s beat Jersey on penalties at the Track after an extraordinary game had finished 3-3 after extra-time 🙌
Cue wild scenes 💚
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Sam Culverwell hugs his mum Amanda after his gold medal performance in the criterium
#islandgames2019
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🎽 The road to Tokyo starts here for
@CamChalmers400
🇯🇵
The
@GsyAthletics
400m star returned to action today clocking 45.98, the fastest time ever recorded on Guernsey soil 🙌
Full report and reaction in Monday’s
@GuernseyPress
.
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⚽️ Alex Scott is off to the U20 World Cup! 🙌
The Guernsey star has been named in England’s 23-man squad for the tournament in Argentina 🇦🇷
The Young Lions face Tunisia, Uruguay and Iraq in their group stage games later this month 🏆
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Jack Griffin is a Robin! 🙌
The 16-year-old
@sylvansofficial
and
@GuernseyFC
striker has become the latest Sarnian to sign for
@BristolCity
✍️
Full story at 📲
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🇬🇬 What a night for these four 💚
Orla Rabey, Tatiana Tostevin, Molly Staples, and Laura Le Cras are the first ever women’s relay team to represent Guernsey at a Commonwealth Games 🙌
They took some five seconds off the island record in the 4x100m freestyle final 👏
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“This is a rugby lifeline for me” 🙏
Former
@JerseyRedsRugby
centre
@Danbarnes012
has joined up with
@guernseyraiders
following the sudden demise of the Championship club.
He trained last night and is in line to start against Worthing at Footes Lane tomorrow.
🎙️
@tonycvrr
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“He’s very, very proud” 💚
Twenty years after her dad Paul won silver in the same event,
@VeloGuernsey
’s Hannah Brehaut produced a blistering ride to go one better and top the podium in the cycling time trial 👏
A medal that means so much 🥇
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BOXING
Guernseyman Brad Watson is the new English super-flyweight champion after stopping Loua Nassa in the 10th and final round in Sheffield
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🎽 Just a guy from
@GsyAthletics
running in an Olympic final 💪
No medal but what a moment for
@CamChalmers400
at
#Tokyo2020
There will have been lots of proud people watching that 🇬🇬
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“It just helps a lot to know that that pathway is open” 🙌
New
@BristolCity
signing Jack Griffin on the example
@AlexScott_7
has set for young players in Guernsey 🇬🇬
Hear the full interview on our latest 𝑭𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑷𝒐𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕.
Listen:
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🏆 Recognition for
@AlexScott_7
at the Betway Channel Islands Sports Awards 🙌
@BristolCity
’s starboy is the joint winner of the 2022 Rising Star prize, alongside Jersey and Fulham footballer Luke Harris 🌟
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⚽️ Alex Scott is the EFL Championship Young Player of the Season for his performances for Bristol City 👏
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The performance of
@Guernsey_2023
so far? 🇫🇴
Faroese teenager Jónas Gunnleivsson Isaksen stunned a full house at Footes Lane last night, smashing the
@IslandGamesAsso
400m record to claim gold ahead of Guernsey’s Cam Chalmers in 46.02 🥇
He’s only 17 😲
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🇬🇬 Team Guernsey have arrived at
@birminghamcg22
! 👋
What a moment for the island’s athletes 🤩
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⚽️ Following in
@AlexScott89
’s footsteps! 🙌
@BristolCity
have announced the double-signing of Guernsey teenagers Ben Acey and Tim Ap Sion 🇬🇬
Read more:
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⚽️ “He’s one of the top young talents in the country” 🔥
@BristolCity
player pathways manager
@tinnion_brian
on Guernsey star
@AlexScott89
🙌
Hear a full interview on the latest Guernsey Press Football Show 🗣
Listen 🎧
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BACK IN GUERNSEY HANDS!! 🙌
@Guernsey_FA
U21s have beaten Jersey 2-1 at Footes Lane to regain the Ambassadeur Bowl 🏆
Goals from Jack Griffin and Keene Domaille 👏
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🇬🇬 WHAT A MOMENT! 🙌
Lucy Beere has secured Guernsey’s first Commonwealth Games medal for 28 years!! 👏
She’ll play for gold later this afternoon 💪
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One for the
@BristolCity
supporters 👇
Robins owner Steve Lansdown joined us to talk about his golf project in Guernsey, but we also asked him about Alex Scott and what his transfer means for the club 🗣️
Watch out for the full podcast early next week 🎧
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Siam Cup back in Guernsey hands for first time in a decade!
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⚽️ What a year it’s been for Guernsey’s
@AlexScott_7
🙌
The
@BristolCity
star has been chatting to
@HarryJones73
about becoming a firm favourite at Ashton Gate, winning the U19 Euros, and how he’s developed on and off the pitch 🗣️
Full interview:
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BREAKING...Competitive cricket likely to resume as early as next Saturday with a T20 match at KGV featuring the island’s top players. Evening cricket league also close to starting. Full story in Monday’s Guernsey Press.
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⚽️ Breaking: Guernsey's
@AlexScott89
has been named in the England U18 squad to face Wales later this month.
Our Under-18s are back in action this month, as they take on Wales. Kevin Betsy has named a 24-man squad for the camp:
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⚽️ “He is just adored by Bristol City fans” ❤️
@BristolCity
commentator
@TobyOsborne1
on Alex Scott ahead of the biggest match of his young club career 🗣️
They welcome Man City tonight in the fifth round of the FA Cup 🏆
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ALEX SCOTT MAKES HIS PREMIER LEAGUE DEBUT!! 🤩
He starts for Bournemouth at home against Wolves and will become Guernsey’s first male top-flight footballer for more than 20 years 🙌
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⚽️
@StMartinsAC
are Channel Island champions! 🏆
@Guernsey_FA
’s first Upton winners for 10 years 🙌
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🇬🇬 A tremendous effort from Sam Culverwell in the men's road race at
#CommonwealthGames2022
sees him take a top 10 finish after coming within 1.5km of snatching a medal after bridging the gap to leader Sam Watson with 10km left. Culverwell classified 9th 👏
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⚽️ Maya Le Tissier captains England to an 8-0 win over Georgia in Hungary in their first match of the 'elite round' in the Uefa Women's Under-17 Championships
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⚽️ Goal of the season contender? 😲
Sam Murray for
@NorthAC1892
against
@StMartinsAC
tonight 🔥
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⚽️ Former Sylvans forward Tim Ap Sion has signed a professional contract with Bristol City having progressed through the academy after joining from Guernsey FC 👏
Born in Guernsey, Tim Ap Sion joined City in May 2022 from Guernsey FC after he scored on his first-team debut for the Channel Islands side, further strengthening relationships between the two clubs.
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🇬🇬 “It’s truly overwhelming”
Billy Le Poullain says the support he’s received during the Commonwealth Games has been “humbling” 💚
He went out to England’s Lewis Richardson at the quarter-final stage.
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⚽️ “Guernsey changed my life” 💚
Having lit up local football for four years, Carlos Canha bids farewell to the Bailiwick this weekend 🇬🇬
He was named Priaulx League player of the season as
@downthesoif
retained the title in 2018 before making 60 appearances for
@GuernseyFC
👏
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⚽ BREAKING NEWS - Guernsey's Maya Le Tissier has been called up to the England senior women's squad for the first time for this month's internationals against Japan and Norway 👏
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⚽️ Alex Scott was named man of the match by Rob Green on Amazon Prime as the Guernseyman helped AFC Bournemouth to a 3-0 win over Fulham 👏
Scott played the full 90 mins and his brilliant run led to the opening goal as the Cherries climbed to 10th in the Premier League
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🇬🇬 Born in Birmingham, raised in Alderney, fighting for Guernsey 🥊
Special day for
@MrLePoullain
— through to the Commonwealth quarter-finals! 🙌
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⚽️ WHAT A GOAL!! 🚀
Brandon Wallace scored the equaliser as
@NorthAC1892
came from behind to beat champions
@StMartinsAC
3-1 on the opening night of the new FNB Priaulx League season.
Stunning strike 👏
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🇬🇬 IT'S A SILVER MEDAL 🥈 for Lucy Beere in the Women's singles final at the
#CommonwealthGames22
Ellen Ryan of Australia 🇦🇺 takes gold 🥇 in a closely fought match 21-17 after 24 ends
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⚽️ Guernsey FC are SAFE from relegation in Isthmian South Central following today's results.
The Green Lions picked up just 11 points in their first 18 games, but they have taken 26 from the next 17 to reach 40 and guarantee survival!
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THE WINNING MOMENT 🏆
What a day for
@guernseycricket
🙌
🏏 Guernsey have WON 🏆
They beat Denmark by 6 wickets at KGV with 8 balls to spare to win ICC Men's T20 World Cup Sub Regional Europe Qualifier C 🙌
Brilliant 67 not out from Matt Stokes guides them home 👏
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🇬🇬 All done in Brum.
An incredible, history-making 11 days for Guernsey sport 🥈🥉
@birminghamcg22
has been unforgettable 💚
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“This was the event I wanted” 🙌
Here’s how
@_samculverwell4
screamed through St Peter’s to win the
@Guernsey_2023
road race gold — and what it means to him 🥇
Fantastic team effort from the
@VeloGuernsey
guys to get him there 👏
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⚽️ Alex Scott starts for Bristol City for the first time as they face Brentford in their final game of the season
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⚽️ Signing off in style 🙌
Teenager Ben Acey scored his third goal in four games for
@GuernseyFC
yesterday, in what looks likely to be his final appearance at Footes Lane 👏
What an impact he’s made in a GFC shirt this season 🔥
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Matt Le Tissier confirms he is available for 2019 O50s Muratti ...and he’ll get fit
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⚽ The lionheart at the heart of the Green Lions. An outstanding defender & leader for North, St Martin's, GFC and Guernsey over the years, JAMIE DODD is No. 28 in our DWA-supported countdown of Guernsey Football's Top 100. More in today's
@GuernseyPress
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⚽ If the Northerners had their own ‘Captain, Leader, Legend’ banner, STUART POLSON would arguably adorn it. The outstanding Island defender is at No. 55 in our DWA-supported countdown of Guernsey Football’s Top 100. More in today’s
@GuernseyPress
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Maya Le Tissier = History maker ⚽🏆🤩
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🎽 “I’ll feel like I’m representing Guernsey as much as I am Great Britain out there” 🇬🇬
@CamChalmers400
has waited five years for his Olympic chance, now he’s ready to take it at
#Tokyo2020
#TeamGB
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⚽️ The Indoor Sports Centre at Hougue du Pommier has been sold in a £3m-plus deal that will see it turned into a high-tech football facility featuring interactive equipment and a 3G five-a-side pitch.
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⚽️ "Thanks to everyone back home for supporting me, I hope now they can see it's actually paid off" 💚
@MayaLeTissier
on her first senior England call-up 🏴
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⚽️ “We came back together as a team” 💪
@Guernsey_FA
U18 captain
@SebVance1
says their Stranger Cup success means “everything” after losing a close Muratti 🏆
The island juniors beat
@NorthAC1892
5-1 in last night’s final to win the historic competition for the first time 👏
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🎾 A LANDMARK MOMENT FOR HEATHER WATSON! 🙌
She’s into the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time in her career after beating Kaja Juvan 7-6 6-2 to progress at Wimbledon 👏
Yes,
@HeatherWatson92
! 💚
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⚽️ Robbie Legg scores a brace on his return to action after 16 months out injured as Guernsey U21s beat Jersey U21s 4-3 to win the Ambassadeur Bowl for the fifth year in a row. Will Fazakerley also scored while Guernsey's other was an own goal.
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⚽ A quality player and also the most recent Guernsey captain to lift the Muratti Vase, CRAIG YOUNG is at No. 60 in our countdown of Guernsey Football's All-Time Top 100 supported by DWA. Read about 'Bongo' in today's
@GuernseyPress
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🏉 Guernsey have WON the Siam Cup 🏆
Man of the match Anthony Armstrong scored a hat trick as Raiders ran in 10 tries in a 62-26 victory over Jersey Reds Athletic at St Peter 👏
This match was the delayed 2021 edition. The 2022 match will be at Fotes Lane next Saturday
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ICC have confirmed Guernsey will stage the T20 World Cup Europe Final this June with the 6-team event being played at KGV and the College Field.
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Some introduction to senior football! 🙌
Sixteen-year-old striker Jack Griffin scored off the bench on his
@GuernseyFC
debut as they started the
@IsthmianLeague
season with a 3-1 win at Footes Lane 🔥
What a start for him and the Green Lions 👏
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🇬🇬 "I'm ecstatic to have finally got that first win" 😁
@MrLePoullain
has been speaking to us after claiming a convincing victory in his opening fight at Birmingham 2022 🥊
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⚽ One of our finest modern-day footballers who has shone for North, GFC and the Island, ALEX LE PREVOST, is at No. 62 in our DWA-supported countdown of Guernsey Football's All-Time Top 100. Read about his career in today's
@GuernseyPress
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Alex Scott has been given his Bristol City 1st team debut as a 71st minute sub in the Championship game against Luton Town which was locked at 2-2
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⚽️ A day to remember for Guernsey’s
@AlexScott89
🙌
The former
@StMartinsAC
and
@GuernseyFC
midfielder made his England U18 debut in a 2-0 win over Wales in Cardiff.
He came on at half-time and had some good moments, including drawing a save with a long-range free-kick.
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⚽️ A true icon of Guernsey football 🙌
The grandstand at the Track, which has stood for more than a century, is being rebuilt this summer 🚧
It’ll have a white roof by the time
@belsfcgsy
next run out there…
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⚽️ “I might come back for the vets in a few years” 😅
Ben Coulter has played his last game in a
@StMartinsAC
shirt - for now - before heading back to Australia.
He signed off for Saints with victory in Saturday’s Jeremie Cup final at the Track.
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⚽ St Martin's have WON the Wheway Cup 🏆 with a 2-1 win over St Peter in Jersey this evening to complete a treble in an outstanding season for the Guernsey and CI champions
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⚽ It was with great sadness we heard of the passing yesterday of outstanding sportsman ERNIE SAUVAGE, who was the CI's oldest surviving Muratti player at 102. Read about his fine career in today's
@GuernseyPress
as part of our countdown of Guernsey Football's Top 100 (No. 44)
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⚽ An outstanding goalkeeper for Bels, Vale Rec and Guernsey over many years who became an excellent coach, CHRIS HAMON is at No. 31 in our DWA-supported countdown of Guernsey Football's Top 100. Read about his career in today's
@GuernseyPress
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⚽ Guernsey's Alex Scott scored the only goal of the game yesterday as Bristol City beat Derby County 1-0 in the Championship 👏
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There has been a minutes silence at Blanche Pierre Lane to pay tribute to former Guernsey and St Martin’s skipper Kevin Le Gallez who has passed away this evening. A truly great player
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🎾 Heather Watson is through to the third round at Wimbledon for the first time since 2017 🙌
She has just won the one game she required overnight against Qiang Wang to beat the former world No. 12 from China 7-5, 6-4 on Court 18
📷 PA
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⚽ A history-making footballer in Guernsey as a teenager, she is now a full England international, Women's FA Cup finalist and currently sitting top of the WSL with Manchester United - all by the age of 21!
Happy birthday
@MayaLeTissier
🎂
You only turn 2️⃣1️⃣ once! 🙌
We hope you have a brilliant day,
@MayaLeTissier
❤️
#MUWomen
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Bristol City announce this afternoon that Alex Scott has signed his first professional contract with the club.
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⚽️
@MayaLeTissier
will be back in
@Lionesses
colours later this month 🙌
She’s been selected in an England U23 squad to face Belgium on 25 October 🇧🇪
Congratulations, Maya! 👏
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⚽ One of the most skilful attacking players of his generation, DAVE RIHOY - a star for North, Bels, Manzur and GFC - is at No. 43 in our countdown of Guernsey Football's All-Time Top 100 supported by DWA. Read about his career in today's
@GuernseyPress
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@GuernseyPress
@belsfcgsy
@GsyRangersFC
⚽ And the winner is...🥁
A true colossus of a player described as 'streets ahead of everybody' who became a coach of similar renown, COLIN RENOUF is No. 1️⃣ in our DWA-supported countdown of Guernsey Football's Top 💯.
More in today's
@GuernseyPress
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The New GFLM board have appointed Charlie Pinsard to coach and lead the FNB Priaulx League Rep team in next season’s FA Inter-League Cup game away v Hampshire Premier League on 28 Sept.
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🎽 Amazing achievement 👏
A year after undergoing major spinal surgery to treat cancer, former
@guernseyiga
athlete Peter Amy returned to racing in Sunday’s Butterfield
@GsyAthletics
Half Marathon.
Not just that, he finished fifth in 75:29 — only 90 seconds outside his PB! 💪
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⚽️ GUERNSEY ARE WOMEN’S MURATTI WINNERS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 16 YEARS!! 🏆
THEY'VE DONE IT!!!!!!! Your 2024
@CloseFinanceCI
Muratti Women's Champions are GUERNSEY!!!!!!!
A close fought battle all over the pitch but Guernsey emerge victorious! Rang with a header in the first half and Hedley with a penalty late in the second!
🇯🇪 0 - 2 🇬🇬
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⚽️ Captain Maya Le Tissier has led England U17s to an opening victory in their Uefa Women’s U17 Championship qualifying campaign. They beat group hosts Moldova 6-0 thanks to goals from Filis (3), Stables, Robinson and Grant
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🏆 ALEX SCOTT IS THE BETWAY CHANNEL ISLANDS SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR 2023!
Congratulations,
@AlexScott_7
! 👏
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The putt that won Tom Le Huray his first island men's title. He wins the Saffery Champness Island Men's Golf Championship final 1 up against Danny Blondel thanks to this birdie 2 at the last
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What better way to start a wintry Sunday than waking up to hear Heather Watson has won the Mexican Open, her 4th career title and first in 4 years. full story in Monday’s 12-PAGES of sport!!!
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Josh Lewis takes individual gold for Guernsey in Men's Triathlon in Gibraltar
#islandgames2019
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