Paul Lees

SOMETIMES the thing that always stays the same is ever changing – if that makes any sense. There is no less desire to play football on the Island than there ever was – it remains the most participated sport by quite some distance – but it’s the way it is played that is different. Once upon a distant time, Sunday was not the only day of rest in Jersey, you had Thursday afternoons too and different football leagues operated for both days, along with the traditional league played on Saturdays.

EVERYONE has their favourite house in the Island, the one they dream they could own one day but know damn well they never will. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the grandest, the biggest or the most valuable. In some ways, your favourite other house has a distinct character and perhaps, even, gives you a distant feeling of attainability, even though it will still forever be out of reach.