And with that in mind, the pressure is on for Jersey’s finest footballers to stay fit and produce the goods next summer, just as they did on grass at Springfield in 1997. To repeat the feat on the soon-to-be synthetic surface of Jersey HQ next year will not be an easy one, that’s for sure. Momentum and form, as individuals and as a unit, must be built up over the coming months.
As has been the case for the last eight years (since St Peter topped the table on the final day of the 2005/06 Jersey Football Combination Premiership season), St Paul’s and Jersey Scottish will undoubtedly once again battle it out for top honours and will almost certainly provide the bulk of Jersey’s players when the as-of-yet-unknown Island boss selects his Island Games squad.
But can the likes of Trinity and Jersey Wanderers, who have been there or thereabouts in recent seasons and who are both now entering a new, more youthful era, put the cat amongst the pigeons and end this dominance?
Full preview of the Jersey Football Combination Premiership in Thursday’s JEP.
