Jerseybean Posted June 24, 2021 Report Share Posted June 24, 2021 SL already has Guernsey sorted and according to Fulham’s scout Jersey has lots of offer in terms of unearthing footballing talent too: https://jerseyeveningpost.com/sport/football/2021/06/23/fulham-scout-jersey-could-have-premier-league-players-in-pipeline/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Red Posted June 24, 2021 Report Share Posted June 24, 2021 (edited) Hopefully with Alex Scott we already have our first premier league footballer in the pipeline from the Channel Islands. Not to turn this into a Jersey versus Guernsey thread but I have a friend who is a youth coach at a Guernsey club (same one Alex Scott played for). Says Chelsea and Southampton are over there all the time and they have had a couple of players picked up by Man Utd so well worth scouting in that part of the world. Edited June 24, 2021 by Port Red 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanatopia Posted June 24, 2021 Report Share Posted June 24, 2021 Shameful that you are blatantly touting Guernsey to all and sundry when SL clearly wants it only for the exclusive use of City. Talk about letting the cat out the bag. Deary me. I don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leaning To One Side Posted June 24, 2021 Report Share Posted June 24, 2021 Few gems have been unearthed from the Channel Islands over the years...Graeme le Saux, Matt le Tissier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerseybean Posted June 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2021 1 hour ago, Port Red said: Hopefully with Alex Scott we already have our first premier league footballer in the pipeline from the Channel Islands. Not to turn this into a Jersey versus Guernsey thread but I have a friend who is a youth coach at a Guernsey club (same one Alex Scott played for). Says Chelsea and Southampton are over there all the time and they have had a couple of players picked up by Man Utd so well worth scouting in that part of the world. There are young players in Jersey being signed up, know of one school boy who Palace signed about a year ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashtonboy Posted June 24, 2021 Report Share Posted June 24, 2021 A very small pool and most of the best footballers on the island are Madeira born with allegiance to the Portuguese clubs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjak Posted June 25, 2021 Report Share Posted June 25, 2021 16 hours ago, Ashtonboy said: A very small pool and most of the best footballers on the island are Madeira born with allegiance to the Portuguese clubs. Sorry.....I don't get it? What is the connection between Madeira and Jersey/Guernsey...am I missing something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonks55 Posted June 25, 2021 Report Share Posted June 25, 2021 18 minutes ago, maxjak said: Sorry.....I don't get it? What is the connection between Madeira and Jersey/Guernsey...am I missing something? During the 1960's Jersey signed an agreement with Madeira for individuals to settle on the island as 'staff' for the holiday trade. Therefore there is a significant number of 'Madeiran' individuals, and their families, now settled on the island. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiverRed Posted June 25, 2021 Report Share Posted June 25, 2021 21 minutes ago, maxjak said: Sorry.....I don't get it? What is the connection between Madeira and Jersey/Guernsey...am I missing something? Around 7% of the Jersey population are Portuguese. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerseybean Posted June 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2021 10 minutes ago, RiverRed said: Around 7% of the Jersey population are Portuguese. http://www.gov.je/Government/JerseyInFigures/Population/Pages/PopulationStatistics.aspx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashtonboy Posted June 25, 2021 Report Share Posted June 25, 2021 29 minutes ago, Jerseybean said: http://www.gov.je/Government/JerseyInFigures/Population/Pages/PopulationStatistics.aspx Interesting figures, although that only shows Portuguese born residents. The extended Portuguese families which now probably extends to 4th or 5th generation would take the figure well beyond 7%. I left the island in 2012 and it was widely accepted there was in excess of 15,000 people who considered themselves to be Madeiran/Portuguese or dual nationality from Venezuela or Brazil. Lovely people and made many friends. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjak Posted June 26, 2021 Report Share Posted June 26, 2021 9 hours ago, Tonks55 said: During the 1960's Jersey signed an agreement with Madeira for individuals to settle on the island as 'staff' for the holiday trade. Therefore there is a significant number of 'Madeiran' individuals, and their families, now settled on the island. Thanks...........I did not know that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBW Posted June 26, 2021 Report Share Posted June 26, 2021 16 hours ago, Tonks55 said: During the 1960's Jersey signed an agreement with Madeira for individuals to settle on the island as 'staff' for the holiday trade. Therefore there is a significant number of 'Madeiran' individuals, and their families, now settled on the island. So if we'd sorted out the connection earlier, we could've had Ronaldo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted June 26, 2021 Report Share Posted June 26, 2021 On 24/06/2021 at 21:59, Leaning To One Side said: Few gems have been unearthed from the Channel Islands over the years...Graeme le Saux, Matt le Tissier Brett Pitman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerseybean Posted June 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2021 16 hours ago, Jerseybean said: http://www.gov.je/Government/JerseyInFigures/Population/Pages/PopulationStatistics.aspx On 24/06/2021 at 22:32, Ashtonboy said: A very small pool and most of the best footballers on the island are Madeira born with allegiance to the Portuguese clubs. Reminded me of my playing days in Jersey, every game against Jersey Portuguese FC (who folded in 2014) I was amazed they’d communicate throughout the game in their mother tongue until that is it came to letting the officials know what they thought. Their choice use of English on these occasions often resulted in cards being brandished. Always made me smile. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashtonboy Posted June 26, 2021 Report Share Posted June 26, 2021 2 hours ago, Jerseybean said: Reminded me of my playing days in Jersey, every game against Jersey Portuguese FC (who folded in 2014) I was amazed they’d communicate throughout the game in their mother tongue until that is it came to letting the officials know what they thought. Their choice use of English on these occasions often resulted in cards being brandished. Always made me smile. I thought it was very funny that the use of swear words by both men and women in the Portuguese population was unrestricted. The c word was used as liberally as any other and the significance of its use was lost in translation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerseybean Posted November 4, 2021 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2021 Another Jersey lad doing well….https://jerseyeveningpost.com/sport/football/2021/11/04/former-england-coach-backs-high-performer-harris/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted November 4, 2021 Report Share Posted November 4, 2021 Heard we are looking at a lad called Bergerac.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_Alligator Posted November 4, 2021 Report Share Posted November 4, 2021 Southampton have had a great scouting policy in general, over the years, and the channel islands have been a success story for them on several occasions. I paid a visit to them some years ago now, as part of a piece of academic work that I was doing about the scouting and development of young players, and was very impressed with their approach to things. At the time they had several youngsters from our neck of the woods on their books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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