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ISLANDERS LOOKING TO BREAK A 100-YEAR DUCK
By MATT BADCOCK

HEARD the one about the football team that have to play 16 games away and only eight at home?
Meet Alderney – the club who have to raise £50,000 in an Island Games year, play four double headers a season in Guernsey’s Priaulx League and haven’t won a Muratti Vase game in 100 years.
But that’s only part of an amazing football story being played out on the small Channel Island located 60 miles from the south coast of England and less than ten miles from France.
Despite their declining resident popul...

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